Mozilla Firefox shortcut keys

Here is shortcut keys for mozilla firefox users. this save lots of tym so go and try them n save your valuable tym..

• Shift + Spacebar: This is used to moves up a page at a time.
• Shift + Enter: This is used to complete a .net instead of a .com address.
• Ctrl + (- or +): This is used to increase or decrease the font size.
• Ctrl + 0 (Zero): This is used to get back to original font size.
• Ctrl +Shift + Enter: This is used to complete an .org address.
• Ctrl + Tab: This is used to navigate through each of the open tabs.
• Ctrl + T: This is used to open new tab.
• Ctrl + P: This is used to print current page/frame.
• Ctrl + D: This is used to bookmark the currently opened page.
• Ctrl + J: This is used to display the download window.
• Ctrl + I: This is used to display available bookmarks.
• Ctrl + N: This is used to open new browser window.
• Ctrl + K: This is used to go directly to the search button at the upper right.
• Ctrl + W or Ctrl + F4: This is used to close currently selected tab.
• Spacebar: This is used to move down a page at a time.

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Mouse Shortcuts

Sometimes you’re already using your mouse and it’s easier to use a mouse shortcut than to go back to the keyboard. so here are some cool mose shortcut go and try them..

• Middle click on link (opens in new tab)
• Shift+Scroll Down (previous page)
• Shift+Scroll Up (next page)
• Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size)
• Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size)
• Middle click on a tab (closes tab)

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Delete Items from address bar history in Mozilla Firefox - Cool Computer Tricks

Firefox save URL which you have visited, and it shows them in address bar drop down menu. Now you can delete that URL history. Just follow these steps:

1). Open Mozzila Firefox.

2). Go to addressbar and start typing any url.

3) Drop down menu will apppear and display various URLs, Go to address you want to delete.

4) Press delete from keyboard.

Its done.

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Speed Up Firefox - Cool Tips and Tricks

Having trouble with your firefox speed?? Try this, It will surelyincrease firefox's speed..Just follow these steps:

1). Go to address bar and Type about:config, and then hit enter.

2). Now here Search for network.http.pipelining double click on it, Set it True.

3). Search for network.http.proxy.pipelining, and make it also true.

4). Search for network.http.pipelining.maxrequests, double click on it, I will open window like below, enter some higher value like 30 or 40.

5). Right-click anywhere and select New and then Integer.

6). Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay, set its value to 0. This value indicates the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

Its done.

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Control Music Player from Firefox

If you are music freak and love to listen music while surfing or browsing and tierd of switching back and forth between your browser and media player to control media player, then this post is for you.

Now you can access and control your music player from firefox, for this you just need to install Froxy tunes extensions in firefox.

Once you have installed the extension and restarted Firefox you will see the FoxyTunes Toolbar located in the Status Bar. The default media application is Windows Media Player but it can be easily changed.

It provides various menus,submenus and buttons/items with the default settings. Some of them are Search, FoxyTunes Main Menu, Show Player, Select Player, Previous Track, Play, Next Track, Mute On/Off, Volume, Play File, Twitty Tunes, Foxy Tunes Search/Explore, Open FoxyTunes Planet, & Toggle Visibility/Drag and drop to move.

You can Download Froxy tunes free. Here is link for froxy tune exension..

Click here To Download

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Remove Searchengine from Firefox Searh bar

Do you have some search engines on Firefox search bar which you never used. Keeping them in search bar is of no use, it is better to simplify it by removing search engines. Here are steps to remove searchengine just follow them:




1). Open Firefox and click on a triangle icon on left of search engine toolbar.
2). Click on Manage Search Engines.
3). It will open a window which contains all installed search engines, Select search engine which you want to delete.
4). Click on remove.
5). Click on OK.

Its done.
Close your firefox and reopen it to see the changes.

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Make Firefox faster - Lower the amount of memory it used

If you have old desktop PC of RAM less than 1 GB and have installed firefox. Then may be you noticed that your computer slow down after its installation. Here is trick to make it faster by decrease the amount of memory it used.


If your computer has ram of 1 gb or more than 1 gb, then you need not to do this.
Follow given steps:
1). Open firefox.

2). In your Firefox address bar, enter the following text: about:config.

3). Scroll down to the entry titled browser.cache.memory.enable and make sure the Value is set to true. If it’s not, double-click anywhere in the browser.cache.memory.enable line and the status will change to true.

4). Now Right-click anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer.


5). Enter preference name as browser.cache.memory.capacity in the New integer value window.


6). Click OK.

7). Now you have to enter a number in the Enter integer value, but that number depends on how much memory you have , how much you want to give Firefox. If you have 256MB or less RAM, enter 4096 as the value. If you have 512MB of RAM, enter 6144 or 8192.


8). Click OK.

Its done.

Restart firefox and seee then changes. It must be much faster now..

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Move or remove the close tab button

you can easily remove or move close tab button. Just go through dis..

Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Type “browser.tabs.closeButtons” in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):

Edit the value according to your preference.

Here are the meaning of these values:

0: Display a close button on the active tab only

1: (Default) Display close buttons on all tabs

2: Don’t display any close buttons

3: Display a single close button at the end of the tab bar (Firefox 1.x behavior)

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Use gmail acccount for Photo Sharing - Cool Trick

Now you can store or share your photos by using your gmail account. You can create, upload and share whole photo albums in moments. For this you need to install a firefox extension named GPhotospace.



GPhotospace is the fast way to share photos online. This free photo album builder works with Firefox and Gmail. Allow you to use existing Gmail account or create a new one for GPhotoSpace and create any number of photo albums, store and share them instantly.

It requires Firefox 3 and leverages the 7GB+ of storage space that you currently get with a Gmail account for an online photo storage repository.

Itrs freely available on net, so download it and then installed it. Once installed, you can launch the application from Firefox's Tools menu or by putting a small camera icon on your toolbar.

After that GPhotoSpace prompted to log into Gmail account. Once inside,it provides several links to choose from for creating albums, sending albums to others, deleting albums, maintaining an album inbox and more. All the images are stored by Google as part of your Gmail account. Its really very easy and handy to use, So go guys n download it fast...
enjoy!!!


Click here To Download

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Use Browser as Calculator:

While surfing if you need to calculate some figure then no need to open calculator in window. You can do simple calculation easily in browser. It is done by simple javascript, which is described below. You just need to write that script in address bar and press enter. answer would display immediately in an dialog box.

javascript: alert(calculation part);

for example 

calculate 6+5 

write javascript: alert(6+5); in address bar and press enter.
answer displyed in dialog box as shown below.

calculate 6*5-2
write javascript: alert(6*5-2); in address bar and press enter.


You can use +, -, *, /, % and can perform calculation easily without open windows calculator.

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Change links colour in firefox

Do you want to chnage the link color on firefox, dosnt lyk blue color or want to chnge the color of visited links from purple to any of your choice. then here is solution you can change these links color in minute.

1. Open up your Firefox browser. Click on Tools and then Options.

2. You should now be at theGeneral window. Click on theFonts & Colors button.

3. Click on the blue color boxes to change the link color of “unvisited” links and click on the purple color to change the link color of links you have already “visited.”

4. By clicking on these color boxes, you have a pallette choose color of your choice.5. Then click OK.

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Remove underline from links in mozillla

By default, links are underlined on Web pages in Firefox. If you do not want them underlined then just follow these steps

1. Open up your Firefox browser. Click on Tools and then Options.

2. You should now be at theGeneral window. Click on the Fonts & Colors button.

3. Now in color window, you can see a check box "Underline links" unchecked it.

4. Then click OK.

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Display wheather forecasts on status bar of mozilla firefox

If you have habit to go through weather reports of your city daily then you need not to browse websites for it. Now you have better option, you can get instant whether information and forecasts on status bar of Mozilla firefox.
The Forecastfox extension does just that, displaying weather information from AccuWeather. To install follow these steps:

1. Select Tools - Add-Ons.
2. In Add-Ons dialog box Click the Get Add-ons button.
3. In the search box, type forecastfox and press the magnifying glass.
4. The Forecastfox extension is displayed . Click the Add to Firefox button.
5. Then in Software Installation dialog box click Install Now.

6. When add-on has installed, click the Restart Firefox button.

Then when you start firefox a Forecastfox Options dialog box appears:

1. In this window click the Find Code button under forecast loction.

2. The Forecastfox Location Search dialog box appears. Enter your city and state/country and press Search.
3. Select the proper match and click OK.
4. Then in Forecastfox Options dialog box click OK to accept the standard settings.

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Change font type and text size of Mozilla Firefox

Here is trick by using this you can change the font and text size of your browser. You have to just change some settings in mozilla firefox, after that all webpage will open in your choosen font and text size

Here are steps for this:

1). Open Mozilla Firefox web browser.

2). Click on Tools and then Options.

3). Now go to Content Tab and Click on Advanced option in Font and Colors section.

4). Here select the font and size for the text that you want to see.

5). Uncheck the option, allow the web page to choose its own font

6). Click OK.

Its done.

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Move Mozilla Firefox Automatically- Cool Computer Tricks

Do you want to have some fun and want to impress your friends?? If yes, then this trick is for you. By using this you can move your Firefox window automatically.

Here are steps:

1). Open firefox browser.

2). Just copy the following javascript and paste it to address bar and hit enter.

javascript:a=0;x=0;y=0;setInterval("a+=.01;x=Math.cos(a*3)*2; y=Math.sin(a*2)*2;moveBy(x,y)",2);void(0)

3). To stop moving, just refreash the window or press f5.

enjoy...

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Place facebook chat on Firefox sidebar - Cool Tricks

Facebook Chat allows you to send instant messages to online Facebook contacts. However its chat bar is not so handy, being at the bottom of the page n what if you have left Facebook but still wants to remain chatting with your Facebook contacts? If you are using Firefox, you can place the Facebook Chat at the sidebar. 






Just follow these steps:

1). Open Firefox.

2). Go to Bookmarks on the top navigation. Select Organize Bookmarks.

 

 3). Click New Bookmark tab.

4). Enter Name: Facebook Chat and Location http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php.

 5). Check Load this bookmark in sidebar.

6). Click on Add.

7). Now launch Firefox sidebar. To launch firefox go to view and then on sidebar and click on bookmark select Facebook Chat and start chatting with your Facebook contacts within Firefox.

Its done.
Enjoy chatting with facebook contacts from Firefox sidebar....

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