Want to clear any stored information about one web site in particular, without clearing out all of your browser’s history files? Hidden deep within the Firefox browser, there is a way to clear Firefox’s history for just one single web site. You just have to know where to look.
Firefox Personas, the lightweight themes for the Firefox browser, are still pretty new to the Mozilla user base our there.
With that in mind, I thought it might be handy to guide you through the process when it comes to adding a new Persona theme to your browser, removing a Persona theme from your browser, and how to chance through Persona themes – once you have several saved to your system.
Want to have Firefox just clear out the un-important stuff when you start browsing? Now, this is highly based in my opinion – and I do have to say that one man’s un-important data might be another man’s stuff he can’t miss.
I’ll share with you though how I have my browser setup to clear some un-important data each time I close the browser.
Mitch’s Clear History When Firefox Closes Settings
Go to Tools, and then click on Options.
Next, go [...]
From the creator of Colorful Tabs, we have yet another handy and helpful Firefox extension. FfChrome, for Firefox, is an add-on that trims and slims your context menus. After installing too many add-ons, your right click menu might get a little cluttered. FfChrome is here to clean things up.
The second part of this awesome addition to Firefox is that you never have to click on anything to get it going. All you have to do is pause on the [...]
The other day, when we were talking about bringing Chrome features into Firefox, the topic “searching from the address bar” was mentioned. By default, when you type a word into the address bar by itself, it gives you Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” number one result.
What if you just want to do a regular Google search?
There is an easy way to turn your address bar into a Google search box. You want to type into your address bar [...]
Firefox works fine, but then the worst might happen (even to you!). Something goes wonky and Firefox goes from a browsing tool to an annoyance. So how exactly do you troubleshoot an issue with Firefox?
For most people, I would suggest trying to run Firefox in Safe Mode first. You can use the command line: firefox -safe-mode to get there (for Windows users).
On Linux, you can go to your Terminal and run (for Firefox): /path/to/firefox/firefox -safe-mode
On Mac OS X, go [...]
Are your pictures not looking exactly right after uploading? If your using Firefox 3, you can edit your settings to make those photos pop and display even richer colors. To enable Firefox 3’s rich color support you need to:
Step 1: Enter about:config into your address bar
Step 2: In the filter box, type in this string:
gfx.color_management.enabled
Step 3: Now toggle that from false to true, and then restart (or close, and then open back up) Firefox. Your done! Now where is the [...]
Has Firefox 3.0.1 given you trouble? Well it sound like you might want to contact the extension’s author to make sure thy are using the right compatibility range. Once again Basil does a great job at explaining this in a way that should make sense to us all.
When add-on authors publish their add-on they declare the compatibility range for an add-on. It typically looks like “2.0 to 3.0.*” – meaning that at minimum, this add-on requires Firefox 2.0 and [...]
Is Firefox 3’s search functions not powerful enough for you?
If you’d like to power it up some, you need to pick up CyberSearch. This extension allow you to perform various Google searches right from the address bar. The fun doesn’t stop there. It also displays the results in the awesome bar format along with your history.
You can do a number of special searches too, depending on the keywords that you use. You can do a Web Search, Local Search, Video [...]
If you haven’t made the jump yet, there are a few files you may want to make sure you back up before going from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3. The first would be your password files. These files are located in your profile folder.
Backup the Firefox files called:
signons.txt
signons2.txt
key3.db
Copy and past them into the place you want to back them up to, and you are done. To restore them, make sure you don’t have Firefox running and then go [...]