Posts Tagged With: browsing
· January 29, 2008 at 7:11 am · Firefox Usability
Who needs a mouse? The real hardcore Firefox users can get it all done with just a few clicks on the keyboard - yo. Oh you didn’t know? Using a mouse with Firefox is so old school now. With the help of the Mouseless Browsing extention for Firefox all you need is a keyboard, a browser and some fingers that are ready for game time!
The major goal of this tool is to make it where you can browse through the Web using the number pad to navigate through links. You would hit “1″ to go to the first link, “2″ to go to the second, and so on and so forth. Here is a little more on the process from the extension developer.
You can configure to use the numpad exclusively for Mouseless Browsing. In that mode you can trigger actions even the focus is on a textfield or selectbox. The output is suppressed. If you not use the exclusive mode then triggering actions by typing ids don’t work if the focus is on a textfield or a selectbox. Entering the id while holding the CTRL-Key triggers the action in any case. You can toggle between the two modes by pressing the num-key twice within 1 sec.
It might take a little ‘bit of time to configure the extension to your liking but once you do I could see anybody using this as an alternative way to browse around any web page. Also be sure to check out the official site for Mouseless Browsing to get some more configuration help and advice.
· December 16, 2007 at 6:12 am · Firefox Usability
You browse those articles, web sites and Web 2.0 masterpieces, give them a quick look over and say to yourself, “I should really comeback here later” because you know your suppose to Christmas shopping - not browsing through interesting pages.
Quick Place to Store Pages for Later!
If you have been in these situational shoes before, I have a quick fix that will let you get back to work. No extensions are needed and only a little browsing habit needs to be changed.
1. Right-click on your bookmarks toolbar and create a “New Folder”.
2. Name that folder “Temp”
3. Next time you find yourself looking at something you want to give a little more time to at a later date and time, drag the favicon “or page icon” in the address bar to this new “temp” folder and get back to doing what you need to be doing.
This is one of my little browser tweaks that I have been doing for years and years. It makes it really easy to save stuff you want to read through at a later date and time and once you have, you can delete it or move it to another one of your bookmark folders.
· November 1, 2007 at 6:34 am · Tabbed Browsing
Now here is a new tab extension that got overlooked the other day with our roundup of the best of the best tab tweaks. Fancy Numbered Tabs lets you replace the red X that you see on your tabs (for closing) with numbers.
Now, why numbers? Well - and old keyboard shortcut guru once told me many moons ago that if you hit the Ctrl key plus one of the numbers on your keyboard you can quickly surf between the tabs you might have open.
If you like the shortcut, but hate remembering how to execute it the Fancy Numbered Tabs extension is an addon that can’t be missed.
This puts a prettier interface on that same idea so that you don’t have to sit and count up the tabs before you use the shortcut. I mean - come on, if you have to count up the tabs, then try to think of the keyboard shortcut then do it your not really saving time.
· October 2, 2007 at 6:30 am · Tabbed Browsing
I’ve touched on the PermaTabs extension before, but I think I failed at passing the message that this is a very excellent tool as far as getting the important things seen through the day.
From sun up to sun down, I keep Firefox open pretty much all the time - and I always have one or two web sites I want to keep open. PermaTabs does the best job at doing that for me - even if I have to restart Firefox from time to time. (yes, it does happen!)
If you haven’t picked up on it already this extension adds the ability to turn tabs of your choice into permanent tabs. PermaTabs can’t be closed accidentally (even when closing multiple tabs at once), and will stick around between sessions. No more lost link syndrome!
Want to save that link, but you need to restart the browser real quick? Just set it as a permanent tab for a few and when you come back it will still be there - waiting for you and your eventual return.
· August 23, 2007 at 6:02 am · Tabbed Browsing
Cloning is not a thing of just science fiction stories, it is happening right here - right now.
Ok, so maybe I haven’t had a full cup of coffee yet, but all will make sense soon. Often I wish there was an easy way to copy a tab over without having to do a dance with my mouse to make it so in Firefox.
The Duplicate Tab extension takes care of that problem for me. Duplicate Tab allows you to clone a tab along with its history. You can learn more about this extension at the official site for it - or just take your browser to the Mozilla Addons web site where you can download it and use it right now.
· July 6, 2007 at 5:00 am · Entertainment
Need a new way to view your photos? The folks behind the PicLens extension for Firefox hopes that you do. With this extension you can turn Firefox into a full screen picture browser.
Here are some of the currently supported web sites: Flickr, Facebook, Google Images, Yahoo Images, Friendster, Picasa Web Albums, and more!
Here is a little more about the extension from the developers:
the plug-in provides an immersive full-screen experience for viewing photos on the Web. PicLens Beta 1.5 can be used on Flickr, Facebook, and image search results from Google and Yahoo, and any page that supports Media RSS. To use the software, move your mouse over an image and click the PicLens button that fades in.
I have to say it will be interesting to watch PicLens (pun fully intended there) to see where it goes from here on out.
· May 29, 2007 at 7:02 am · Firefox Basics
There are a handful of keyboard shortcuts I always use with Firefox. Maybe I’m just becoming lazier as I get older, before Firefox it doesn’t seem like I ever used keyboard combinations to make my way around a program that often.
I could toss in something there about how Firefox has made me a better person, but that might be going a little overboard. Here are a few keyboard shortcuts that I use on a daily basis.
Ctrl + Shift + T - Use this to pull up a tab that you might have closed by mistake. I always hate closing the wrong tab when I am cleaning up Firefox after doing some heavy duty browsing. This shortcut is a life saver for me in that regard.
Ctrl + T - Use this keyboard combo to open up a new tab. I used to have an icon on the toolbar to do this. That just takes way too much time though. It is much easier for me to hit Ctrl and T to get the new tab I need.
Space Bar - Get to scrolling down the Web page a little faster by hitting the space bar key. No big secret to this one - but it is helpful.
Ctrl + B - Pull your bookmarks up in the sidebar with this wonderful keyboard combo. Helpful for finding that one bookmark that is buried three or four folders deep.
Have any other keyboard combos you think everybody should use?
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