Firefox Search Box Hacks, Tips and Tweaks

Comments (6) · December 5, 2007 at 9:18 am · Firefox Settings

The search box in Firefox as totally revolutionized the way we deal with search engines on a day to day basis. I don’t go to Google.com to do my searching anymore - I do it from there. There are many more tips, tweaks and tools you can use to get the most out of this built in browser innovation.

Get More Firefox Search Plugins

The first place to check out would be Mozilla’s own search engine page. From here you can add many of the top search engines from around the Web. From Live.com to Wikipedia to even Flickr - the best of the best are all listed.

To remove one, click on your search box and select “Manage Search Engines…”. On that new options window you can sort your search engines and remove the ones you don’t want. Read the rest of this entry »

Add Bookmark Here

Comments off · November 13, 2006 at 4:23 am · Bookmark Help, General Posts

Need to be able to add a quick bookmark inside of one of your folders via Firefox? Get the Add Bookmark Here Firefox extension and this dream can become a reality. This extension allows you to add bookmarks to any folder in the bookmarks menu like in Opera.

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Add to the Dictionary

Comments off · October 30, 2006 at 8:10 am · Firefox Usability

Firefox 2’s dictionary function might take a little while to train, but once you do it is a welcome improvement for all us bad spellers out there. When you see a word that you need to add to the dictionary - that might not be there - it is easy to add it in so it doesn’t show up as a misspelled word any longer.

All you need to do is right-click on the word and select “Add to Dictionary”.