Print Only What You Want in Firefox 3

Comments (9) · August 20, 2008 at 6:56 am · Most Wanted

Checking out Michael Horowitz printing tale of woe from Firefox, I have to say he is right.  Trying to print this page (test it yourself using print preview) looks like a horrible jumbled mess.  Try playing with the example article yourself - it is true!  Hold on, there has to be a fix for printing a badly formatted page, right?

If you said yes, you win… well, you win nothing, but you do have the pride of knowing Firefox is a crafty tool in the right hands.  What I want Michael to do is left-click on his mouse and select all the text he wishes to print.

Got all the text from the article highlighted?  Good.  The next step is to go to the File menu and then select “Print…”. (You can also hit Ctrl + P)  That will bring up the Print Options box.  Under Print range make sure you select “Selection”.

Doing so will make sure you are only printing what you have highlighted from the article.  This way you can get rid of the useless junk like the sidebars and headers.  You only print what you need!  Hit the “OK” button and you should only print the article and none of the rest of the information on the web page.

The final result is a nicely formatted article without any of the rest of the junk you don’t need. 

A Look Around the Firefox Links

Comments off · September 7, 2007 at 6:00 am · Resources

Always wanting to be one who puts others before himself, it is time yet again to take a look at that Firefox loving world around us to see what is going on.

• Mozilla debuts new Firefox first run page
• 12 Firefox Mashups
• Only 15 percent of Web 2.0 Users Still Use Internet Explorer
• Greener overnight downloads with Firefox
• Firefox Extensions cause Memory Leaks and Crashes

Have an interestling Firefox related link? How about a new Firefox theme, extension or project? Feel free to share in the comments or drop it to me in an e-mail and I’ll see what I can do to get it included right here on FirefoxFacts.com.

7 Secret Pages in Firefox

Comments off · January 20, 2007 at 5:05 am · Firefox Hacks

I ran across this link via one of those bookmark tracking services. For those of you who might not know about all the hidden configuration pages you can access via Firefox, this would be a nice place to start.

I found myself staring at the “about:blank” parameter for an IE installation today, and that got me thinking if it works in other browsers too. It did. I’m using Firefox, and that cleared the address bar to a blank. And then I figured the developers HAD to include some more address bar commands and started looking them up.

+ Read About All 7 Hidden Firefox Pages!

Submit Your Firefox Tips, Tricks and Links

Comments off · April 2, 2006 at 12:39 pm · General Posts

Find something interesting on or about Firefox today? I’m always looking for more submissions. If you fit into that category, send them in to me! You can send me the basic information, or do a full write up like you see here on the Web site. I’ll pick the best, and get them posted as soon as possible. Also, if you do a longer entry (one or two full paragraphs) be sure to leave your name and a link, so I can give you the proper credit.

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