3 Firefox Tips You May Not Know About
The thing I like best about Firefox is that just when you think you know everything there is to know about the browser, something new comes along and surprises you.
I discovered five new Firefox tips today. Maybe these are old hat and you know them already. Or maybe like me, you had no idea these could be done.
1. Delete visited URL’s
When you drop down the box underneath the address bar, you can see your recent browsing history. But what if you want to remove one URL from that list? Maybe you’ve been looking at a naughty site and you don’t want your girfriend to know? Or maybe you’ve been shopping for your loved one online and you want to keep it a secret?
Just drop down the URL box, highlight the URL you want to zap then press the “delete” button on your keyboard. The URL will then be removed from the list.
2. Navigate to browser tabs using the keyboard
Instead of using the mouse to click on a tab, why not use the keyboard instead? Pressing CTRL + TAB together will bounce you from tab to tab, starting from the one in the far left and working its way along. Or if you want to go to a specifc tab straight away, you can do that too. CTRL + 2 will take you directly to the second tab from the left. CTRL + 5 will take you to the fifth tab from the left.
3. Grab files off webpages, even protected webpages
Have you ever wanted a picture, file or video off a webpage but you can’t, because it’s been protected? Just right-click on the page, choose “View Page Info” then the “media” tab. Find the file you’re looking for from the list and click on “save”. (note : this doesn’t work for everything but I have still had a pretty high success rate nonetheless).
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at point 1. Delete visited URL’s , it’s very simple if you use CTRL+H (View History) and search/delete what you want
> Pressing CTRL + TAB together will bounce you
> from tab to tab
This won’t necessarily work for people using Ctrl+Tab for switching desktop/workspaces. Try Ctrl+PgDown (ltr) and Ctrl+PgUp (rtl), instead.
> CTRL + 2 will take you directly to the second
> tab from the left. CTRL + 5 will take you to
> the fifth tab from the left.
That would be Alt+2 and Alt+5, respectively, for people like me.
> 3. Grab files off webpages, even protected webpages
There is no thing such as a “protected” page. Depending on what exactly you mean, just disable JavaScript (the NoScript extension helps …). Additionally, DownloadHelper may be of some use.
As for point 1:
That’s why you use an extra Profile for visiting “naughty” sites.
firefox -ProfileManager
to start the profile-manager, create a new profile with a non-suspicious name (“test”,”temp”,”beta”,…), and then start either
firefox -P default or
firefox -P test
Of course, you might want to
*) change the parameters for the icon you usually start Firefox with, so it will always use the default profile
*) use some filesystem protection for the “test”-profile, e.g. chmod 000
The second point, I guess most of the Firefox users know.
The first and third are new for me, but private browsing and firebug extension solves both the problem for me.
So in all, there is nothing of a gr8 trick, which I should have known, but anyway I now know some more ways.
Thanks
Sometimes you get a div or similar with a background image that doesn’t show in the rightclick menu for viewing/saving, and sometimes the ‘view background image’ doesn’t always work.
Page info is useful for these cases.
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