3 Amazing Firefox Hacks

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21 June 2010 13 Comments Posted By Ashik

What good is a browser unless you can tweak it, hack it and bend it to your will? No good at all. The more you can hack it, the better it is. And that means that Firefox must be a great browser as when ever you feel that you know everything about it you come across a bunch of hidden (and some not-so-secret) tips and tricks available that will crank Firefox up and pimp your browser. Make it faster, cooler, more efficient. So today I have come up with 3 amazing firefox tricks you might not be aware of.

1. Save Session For All Tabs Opened In Multiple Firefox Windows

If you are an ardent user of Firefox then you may be aware that when more than one firefox windows are opened up, in that case when you close a firefox window, it does ask me the option to save the session and exit, rather it ask to close all the tabs in that firefox window, but it wont save the tabs in other windows. So this way you could not save the session for multiple tabs opened in multiple firefox windows.

In such a case, there is only one option left to save the session for all the tabs opened in separate firefox windows by terminating firefox through task manager, here is how you do it.

Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to quickly launch task manager, click the process tab and locate firefox.exe and right click selecting the exe and click End Process Tree.

Next time when you will open firefox it will open all the tabs in all the windows that were previously open.

2. Open & Log In to Multiple Accounts Gmail, Facebook, or Twitter Accounts In FireFox

Firefox extension CookiePie manages Firefox’s cookies—small bits of text stored on your computer that tell a site you’re logged in, for example—in such a way that you can log into the same site multiple times.

How to use it?

Just follow the steps given below:

Install CookiePie Firefox Extension.
Create a new tab or use an existing one.
Open the context menu of the tab (i.e: Press the right mouse button over the tab) and select “Toggle On/Off CookiePie”.
A cookiepie icon will appear over the tab.
Go to a site (e.g.: http://www.gmail.com) and login into your account.
Create another tab.
Enable CookiePie on that tab too.
Log in with another account on the same site.

3. Bypass Download Waiting Time On Rapidshare, Megaupload, zShare, Mediafire etc

SkipScreen is a really useful firefox addon for lot of users who download various types of files from the popular file and media sharing sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload, zShare, Mediafire, and more.

Most of these file sharing web sites have a annoying waiting time limit before a free user can start downloading the requested file. So, SkipScreen can be really useful in saving your time wasted seeing the download waiting time as it removes the screen of download waiting time from these media sharing sites.

SkipScreen monitors the pages where you see the download time and will get the content you want before the download waiting time completes.

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13 Comments »

Uzumaki said:

AWESOME, POST! Thanks so much! Love em’!Can’t wait to try ‘em!!!

# 22 June 2010 at 10:37 am

B said:

Regarding killing Firefox to preserve all your open windows/tabs, it’s much easier to just choose “Exit” from the “File” menu. It will make for a much cleaner shutdown of anything that FF may be doing.

# 22 June 2010 at 6:22 pm

John said:

For #1 you could just use File->Exit to do the same thing.

# 22 June 2010 at 7:55 pm

kap4lin said:

Ashik:
#2 was interesting indeed (don’t care much about #1,#3). As a passing suggestion, along with direct links to xpi/exe files, it is always advised to provide the main links, for example, cookiepie: http://www.nektra.com/products/cookiepie-tab-firefox-extension/

Also note the “current known limitations:”

* Gecko 1.8.1 has some implementation errors: Firefox® stores cookies, but our http observer changes the response header. This means that the common cookies are changed in the Firefox® extensions for every transaction on each tab. More information at Mozilla Bugzilla.
* The reordering of different tabs is breaking tabs with GMail® accounts opened.
* GMail® has added, after we finished this extension, an alert we hope to repair, to make GMail® unaware about other connections in other tabs or windows.
* User may experience problems with other Firefox® extensions (e.g.: Tab Mix Plus).

I think these are very important limitations!

# 22 June 2010 at 9:03 pm

mm said:

i always use the quit option from the file menu to exit firefox but save all tabs in all windows… but i’m on ubuntu so it may be different than on windows

# 22 June 2010 at 9:12 pm

Doug said:

If you do File/Exit in Firefox, it will ask you if you want to save your sessions and quit. Next time you open Firefox, it will open all the windows and tabs you had open when you last quit. No need to use the task manager to end the Firefox process tree.

# 23 June 2010 at 3:21 am

noone said:

This may be nit-picking, but none of these tips are “hacks” – or even tweaks of built-in Firefox features.

#1 is a manipulation of Firefox’s session management using Windows Task Manager (or kill in Linux). And it’s hardly convenient to rely on the OS process management for multi-window session preservation.

#2 is an add-on, which may indirectly use Firefox features, but is ultimately added functionality to the Firefox base (hence, “add-on”)

#3 is also an add-on, manipulating javascript running on the supported sites to trick the visited page into thinking the counter has run down. Not even a Firefox feature, just a javascript trick planted into Firefox.

# 23 June 2010 at 3:53 am

Ben said:

…locate firefox.exe and right click selecting the exe and click End Process Tree…

Duhhhh – or you can select File > Quit.

# 23 June 2010 at 5:29 am

anonymouse said:

“1. Save Session For All Tabs Opened In Multiple Firefox Windows”
Easier way would be to go File->Exit.

# 23 June 2010 at 11:48 am

Hasib Bangladeshi said:

Thats a Good trick, Thanks u Bro

# 11 October 2010 at 7:48 am

suraj said:

I was searching for the same information thanks for shearing

# 28 March 2011 at 3:30 am

raju said:

I liked all your post

# 28 March 2011 at 3:31 am

amit said:

Thats a Good trick, Thanks u Bro

# 28 March 2011 at 3:32 am

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