Thus far, after playing with the add-on in question, I think anywhere from 40 to 50 is a good minimum tab width.  You could go all the way down to 1 though if you really wanted to (however, this pretty much makes the tab bar impossible to use). So why is this so exciting to the masses?  Well,  you used to be able to make this tweak in your about:config settings – however it appears that in Firefox 4 they took this feature out and moved it into the theme’s settings (to give more customization features to theme designers).

Want to pick up Custom Tab Width? You can do so by download it from the Firefox Add-ons website.

Did you know that you could add another toolbar to Firefox without needing to install an add-on? This customization feature is often overlooked and can come in handy if you need some extra space to store your buttons or any other toolbar elements you have added to Firefox.

The first thing you will want to do is right-click on your navigation toolbar and select "Customize…". Next, click on the button that reads "Add New Toolbar".  You will then want to give your new toolbar a name.  Once you have done that – you will see a new toolbar space added to your Firefox toolbar layout.  Simply drag the icons over that you want to add to this new toolbar and hit the button labeled, "Done".

Here is the new toolbar I created with the Cut, Copy and Paste buttons added to it:

To hide your custom toolbar from within Firefox, just right-click on the navigation toolbar, and uncheck the custom toolbar you created. If you no longer want your toolbar then go in to customize your Firefox navigation layout again and drag all of the buttons you have added to that toolbar off.  This toolbar should then disappear.

Hope that helps you get a little more out of this feature of Firefox that you do not hear that much about!

The ACE Foxdie theme for Firefox might very well be one of the most creative themes I have seen out there today for the Firefox browser.  Now, that is pretty big praise to give any theme out there for Firefox – but let me tell you why I think this is so.

Once you install this theme for Firefox, you are actually given options on how you want the basic theme to look and feel.  You choose how the buttons look, the appearance of the browser, how it integrates with the rest of your operating system, and you can enable or disable a handful of tweaks.

• Under the Buttons menu, you select the size, color, shape and texture for the Firefox browser buttons.
• Under the Appearance menu, you choose how you want the tabs to show up.
• Under the Miscellaneous menu, you can hide favicons, change the location bar, and tweak with other browser settings.
• Under the OS Integration menu, you have the choice to choose what font you want to use, or to disable text-shadows in certain places.

You can tell a lot of love went into making this theme fantastic.  Just within this one theme, you have hundreds of different customization options, and nobody’s browsing experience has to be the same.

You can pick up this great theme from the Firefox Add-ons website.

What are some of the best Personas you can pick up for Firefox from the Film and TV category?  I recently took a trip through some of the user created backgrounds for Firefox, and found ten of the best examples.  These are all Personas I find both usable and fun to look at, and might help lighten the day the next time you launch your favorite browser.

Here are my top 10 favorite Film and TV Personas for Firefox:

Cookie Monster

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Star Wars Death Star

Sponge Bob Square Pants

Pulp Fiction

Spiderman

Alice in Wonderland

South Park

True Blood

Star Trek – Red Shirt

There you have it.  Let me know which one is your favorite in the comments or if you have another Persona background to share, be sure to post those too. 

Are you a big fan of Google’s custom search feature, which allows you to customize your own search engine to fit your needs?  The Custom Google Search add-on for Firefox, in that case, is a perfect companion. 

In a nutshell, this extension for Firefox allows you to create, use and mange your own Google Custom Engines from within the Firefox browser interface. 

You can pick up the Custom Google Search add-on for Firefox on the Firefox Add-ons web site. 

To launch, all you have to do is hit Ctrl+Space (or for the Mac users Ctrl+Alt).  If you want to use it without the graphical launcher above, use Shift+Alt (or Shift+Ctrl for the Mac users).

Some of the best features include the ability to customize the appearance, set the launcher to open in current or new tabs, set the launcher up as your homepage and you can add as many sites to it as you need to.

You can get more information about it via the official web site, and download it via the Firefox Add-ons site.  It is nice to see a good looking and well thought out extension – and this one fits the bill.

Adds some handy extra toolbar and other functionality to Firefox, including: Custom webpage source viewer button + configuration dialog, Toggle online/offline button, Tabbar customization UI, Copy ALT/TITLE text menu options, Popup ALT text option.

+ Download and Install the Handy Xtra Stuff Extension for Firefox!

Documents and Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\.default\

Now find the file called “persdict.dat”. Open that up in a text editor, delete the words you don’t want in there, and then restart Firefox. You should be good to go.

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