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Firefox’s Navigation Bar Keyboard Combo Cheat Sheet

Aug/06 in Usability

Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows Users We have covered a lot keyboard shortcuts thus far, but today I wanted to cover some of the default tasks you might want to do.  Replicating the navigation toolbar, here are the tasks and then the tips on how to get them done quicker with a few strokes of the keyboard keys.

Navigation Bar Keyboard Shortcuts

Choose Your OS: Windows | Linux | Mac OS

back Alt + Left Arrow or Backspace = Go Back a Page

forward Alt + Right Arrow or Shift + Backspace = Go Forward a Page

home Alt + Home = Go to your Homepage

reload F5 or Ctrl + R = Reload a Page

stop Esc = Stop a Page from Loading

print Ctrl + P = Bring up the Print Options

downloads Ctrl + J = Launch the Download Window

history Ctrl + H = Open Your History in the Sidebar

bookmarks Ctrl + B = Open Your Bookmarks in the Sidebar

new-tab Ctrl + T = New Tab

new-window Ctrl + N = New Browser Window

cut Ctrl + X = Cut

copy Ctrl + C = Copy

paste Ctrl + V = Paste

There is at least one (and sometimes two) keyboard combinations you can use to get the navigation toolbar tasks done.  Anymore keyboard tips you’d like me to go over as we all become Firefox keyboard ninjas?

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Use PayPal like a Credit Card

Jun/05 in Add-ons Reviews, Usability

paypal-firefox-addon How would you like to be able to use PayPal anywhere and everywhere, even where it is not accepted?  At this point the PayPal people hope you are excited because that is what they would like to offer to you via a new Firefox plugin.

Once you get it up and running, a window should come up when you visit a web site asking for your credit card information. With this new Firefox extension, you now have the choice to pay via a card that PayPal creates for you or you can generate a card manually through a drop down menu.

Some of the other features include:

  • Use Secure Cards to shop anywhere online
  • Save and print your receipts
  • Enter addresses with 1 click during checkout
  • Avoid fraudulent web sites
  • Check your balance right from your browserOnly downside is this add-on is only for Firefox 2 right now.  I am sure it won’t take long for them to get it updated for Firefox 3 when the time is right.

    To pickup the new Firefox PayPal Plug-in, you must login to your PayPal account, and then there should be a link to click on your left to “Use PayPal even where it is not accepted”.  Hopefully in the future, they will put this in an easier place to access.  All in all though, great idea if you are a heavy PayPal user.

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    Backup Firefox Passwords (the Manual Way)

    May/20 in Firefox Support

    Sure there are tools, downloads and services that may do this for you, but what fun is that?  Just in case you don’t feel the need to download another addition to the browser just yet – here is how you can backup your Firefox saved passwords the manual way.

    First, navigate yourself to your profiles folder and then you want to copy three files, they are named:

    • signons.txt
    • signons2.txt
    • key3.db

    Copy and past them into the place you want to back them up to, and you are done.  You can also move these three files to a new Firefox profile (say on a new computer, for example) if you wanted to have the same password information on your laptop.

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    More Command Line Firefox Tips

    Jan/03 in Settings

    After yesterday’s post about launching tabs from the run box I thought I would share with you some other command line Firefox tips worth getting familiar with.

    Open the Firefox profile manager: firefox -p

    Start Firefox with a specific profile: firefox -p “user name”

    Open a Specific URL: firefox -url http://www.firefoxfacts.com

    Open a URL in a New Window: firefox -new-window http://www.firefoxfacts.com

    Open a URL in a New Tab: firefox http://www.firefoxfacts.com

    Search Your Default Search Box Search Engine: firefox -search yourtermhere

    For more that you can try I would suggest checking out the command line article over at MozillaZine.org or at Mozilla.org. Some still work, and some might not – but these are the best of the ones I found. If you have any suggestions for alternatives you know feel free to drop in a comment here and let us all know about your favorite.

    Check out the other posts in this series:

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    Video Downloads Without the 3rd Party

    Sep/06 in Entertainment, Most Wanted

    Video DownloaderI have had a few people ask me how to download flash or embedded movies without having to use extensions that push you through a third party.

    There are a lot of extensions out there that will open up a pop up window, and if they support the site you want to download from there should be no mess. People want to cut out the middle man though and go right to downloading what they want. For those people I have a solution.

    Although it might be a little more on the geekier side than some might like the UnPlug extension is what you are looking for. It goes right to the source, digging through the web site code and turns up what will most likely be the file you want to download.

    Unlike the extensions people have problems with, UnPlug scans the page, and if it doesn’t know there the data comes from it can guess. I would say nine times out of ten it guesses the correct one too.

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    WordPress Installing via Firefox Extension

    Aug/15 in Usability

    One Click Installer for WordPressNow I love WordPress, and I use it for nearly all of my various Web projects. I agree with the mass majority that installing WordPress plugins and themes can sometimes be a pain. Sure it isn’t rocket science, but it could be a little easier.

    The OneClick Installer for WordPress extension for Firefox hopes to change that for me. A very unique idea indeed – this extension promises to give you that “one click” install process for any WordPress theme or plugin out there.

    This makes the job of customizing your WordPress install just a little easier for folks that don’t want to dive into the HTML editors and FTP clients to get things done. To learn more about it, you can check out the author’s post on it – or check it out for yourself at the Mozilla addons web site.

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    Fill in Web Forms Quicker

    Feb/28 in Usability

    InFormEnter

    The other day, my sister said that the only reason she was using the Yahoo! toolbar with Firefox was for the auto-fill function that my brother-in-law liked.

    At the time I did not know of a separate extension that would do the same thing. Well, I am happy to say after a little searching – I have found one.

    The InFormEnter extension promises to save all of your important information so you can enter it into Web forms as you need or desire to.

    InFormEnter adds a small, clickable icon next to every input field in a web form, from where you can select the item to be inserted – no typing required. You can configure it to display your frequently used information such as name, email, address and whatever else you want to be available from the form menu.

    I might have to add this to the short list of extensions I use on a daily basis. It makes it really handy when you have a lot of Web forms to fill out.

    + Download and Install the InFormEnter Extension for Firefox!

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    Le Breeze

    Dec/10 in Best Themes

    Le BreezeJust like Whitehart, here is another simple theme that anybody could use. Personally I don’t like for the browser to get in the way of the content – so with a theme like that, you have nothing to worry about. It is simple and to the point, and does not distract you with a bunch of wacky colors and flashing lights.

    + Download and Install the Le Breeze theme for Firefox!

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    Stop Browser Resizing In Firefox

    Dec/02 in Hacks and Tweaks

    I just hate it when a Web site tries to resize my browser window.

    There’s a simple little fix that prevent webpages from resizing your Firefox browser that I put in every time. There’s nothing I hate more than a website that resizes my whole browser to the size of a 40×40 ad, forcing me to expand it back to my regular 1024×768 size.

    + Stop the Browser Resizing in Firefox!

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    Add Your Bookmarks Folder to the Bookmarks Bar

    Oct/22 in Bookmark Help

    Having a folder filled with bookmarks on the bookmarks toolbar is the only way to go inside of Firefox. I have been using this method of browsing through my favorite Web sites, and not I have found the prefect tutorial to show you how to do it as well.

    + Learn More About Adding Your Bookmarks Folder to the Bookmarks Toolbar!

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