Helpful stuff, but my question remains! :s
Type in a search in the Firefox Google box (not a Google page) and the results are displayed in the open tab. Sometimes, however, I notice the results open in a new tab. How is that controlled? The CTRL and centre mouse button don’t work for this.
I dunno, I ditched the Google box and got the Google Toolbar instead. It’s more useful.
CQ, with a tabbrowser extension you can set the google box search to open in any way you like - in a new tab in the background, foreground, to the far right, far left, one tab left or right of the current tab etc.
The way I like to surf is to type stuff in the google box as I go along, and have that search open in a new tab in the background (far right) so it’s there ready when I’ve finished with the current page/tab.
Did you know you can add other engines to the ‘google’ search box? Click on the google icon and you will see ‘add engines’. You can add yahoo, kimo, amazon, ebay, wikipedia and many more. Very useful if you frequently search with other engines or within certain sites.
[quote=“Tetsuo”][quote=“Bu Lai En”]Holding down the Ctrl button while you click a link will open it in a new Tab. It’s a very useful shortcut.
Brian[/quote]
And if you’ve got a 3-button mouse (or a wheel-mouse), clicking the middle-button/mouse wheel on a link will do exactly the same.[/quote]
Awesome.
I use Firefox and only use IE for pages that won’t work with Firefox.
I’ve been using Firefox since it was a little baby Phoenix (0.4), but I never knew about the middle-mouse button to open in a new tab. Thanks, Tetsuo! 
I’m getting pissed off with Firefox. The latest was right now when I yet again tried to install a plug-in it says I need, only to be told by the “Firefox plug-in finder” that “no suitable plug-ins were found.” WTF does that mean?
Pisses me off as well.
FF 1.0 is out now. Maybe an upgrade would fix the problem. I get the plug-in problem from time to time even with FF 1.0 PR which leads me to think that the latest version will still have me screaming “BUT I"VE ALREADY GOT THE FRIGGIN’ PLUG-IN!!!”
My fellow FF users. Try this:
Right click on the toolbar, go to customize, now drag your URL right up onto the top ‘level’ next to where you have File, Edit View Go…Help. This creates a lot more space for viewing pages.
Next, drag your search box more into the middle instead of having it stuck over on the far right.
That box is much too small so I strongly recommend getting the resize search box extension.
If you have lots of engines in your search box, you can highlight a word or phrase on webpages and search within any of your engines/sites using via the context menu. Get the ConQuery extension. It’s very useful if you frequently search in non-Google sites like Wikipedia, BBC news etc. The Context search extension does the same thing.
Finally, make a “most frequently used” folder of about ten or so bookmarks and drag the folder to your toolbar. It makes it much quicker to access them; one click as opposed to the usual ‘Bookmarks, go down, then sideways being careful not to let the cursor slip off and have to go back up again,…’
Hope that all makes sense. Happy surfing.
[quote=“Spack”]Finally, make a “most frequently used” folder of about ten or so bookmarks…[/quote]I have that already.[quote=“Spack”]…and drag the folder to your toolbar.[/quote]How do you do that? I’ve tried to just drag it from the bookmarks list but it doesn’t work. Also I can’t seem to do it from the customize toolbars box.
Easier way, which I tried to post a couple of days ago but Forumosa hiccuped and it go boom: Just make your new bookmarks in the Bookmarks Toolbar folder, then go View-Toolbars-Bookmarks Toolbar.
Joe, create a folder in your bookmarks toolbar folder via the bookmarks manager then drag that new folder (while you are still in manage ‘mode’) to the navigation toolbar. I have the Stumble Upon toolbar so I have my bookmarks toolbar unchecked to give me more space.
If it doesn’t work I’ll see if I can post a screen shot to show you what I mean.
Thanks Spack. I tried a few times and finally figured it out.
1 Create folder of most frequently used items WITHIN bookmarks folder
2 Right click toolbar, display Bookmarks Toolbar, whereupon said toolbar will appear, with frequently used items folder on it
3 Right click toolbar again, select customize, whereupon your newly created folder will vanish from the bookmarks toolbar folder to be replaced by a box saying “Bookmarks Toolbar Items”
4 Drag said box to your Navigation Toolbar
5 Click “done” on the customize window and hey presto! Your Frequently Used Items folder will appear on the Navigation Toolbar
6 Right click toolbar again and de-select Bookmarks Toolbar
Complicated but at least I won’t have to do it again.
I have just discovered this great program last night…all I can say is “WOW!” It’s so much nicer then IE is and easy to use as it imports everything from IE, all the shortcuts are the same too. The best part is the themes( i’m using Noia 2.0) and the extentions, so far im using one where if I highlight the word and right click on it, i can look up the definition, this help my english challenged wife more then me, but still useful.
Me too 
I had to open IE yesterday to check something, and just felt ‘yuck’ 
It wasn’t nice.
Brian
I’ve been using this new tweak for a week now and the results have been pretty positive.
[i] Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:
1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now![/i]
Original link here … http://forevergeek.com/open_source/make_firefox_faster.php
I’m still happy with Opera but use Firefox from time to time.
The Translate extension is wonderful if you come across something you can’t read well.
For example, if you don’t read Chinese but need to know what’s on a Web page:
Tools --> Translate --> Translate from Chinese-tradwill send the page to Babelfish, which will then spit it out in English (more or less). If Babelfish chokes on the page, as sometimes happens, you could also select the text you need, then right click. Then select Translate --> from Chinese-trad Many other languages are also available.
If you can’t get the installation to work, try doing it from the author’s site.
I also like the Web developer toolbar and Wikipedia toolbar, but not everyone needs those.
Pipelining is not the same as opening several connections at once. The browser already does that, typically 4 at a time. What pipelining does is allow the browser to make several requests on the same connection to the web server.
normal:
pipelining:
In the first case, it can open multiple connections at once, but it is the opening and closing of connections that adds latency to the connection, even when the connections are made in parallel. It’s like the difference between calling somone and asking them where to meet for dinner, hanging up, calling them back to ask what time, then calling back again to ask what you should wear, etc. vs. asking all the questions in one phone call.
Edit: The number of parallel http connections is network.http.max-connections and network.http.max-connections-per-server. which default to 24 and 8 in Firefox, a bit more generous than the 4 I mentioned above. Also if you use proxies look at network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy and network.http.proxy.pipelining.
Here is something about the co creator of firefox.
news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u … co_creator
He is still in university.
Scott’s Newsletter, Customizing Firefox, great site with very good links for further info.