Comments on: 3 Firefox Tips You May Not Know About

By: dive

dive — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:04:31 +0000

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.

By: Priyank

Priyank — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:54:52 +0000

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

By: Douglas

Douglas — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:19:30 +0000

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

By: foobar

foobar — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:50:48 +0000

> 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.

By: darkyndy

darkyndy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:49:10 +0000

at point 1. Delete visited URL’s , it’s very simple if you use CTRL+H (View History) and search/delete what you want