Need to open a preferred set of App Tabs when Firefox is started? After my post about App Tabs, DarkMan72 mentioned that it still gave him trouble. If you clear your browser cookies often, App Tabs might give you problems. Here are his thoughts:
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Old Add-ons Not Working?
People often run into problems when Firefox updates, because some of their favorite add-ons no longer work. Well, it isn’t exactly that they will not work. It is the fact that the add-on developer hasn’t updated the add-on to meet the compatibility of the newer version of Firefox. In this article I’ll see what I can do to help you out when it comes to getting them re-enabled.
Website Password Troubleshooting in Firefox
Firefox should remember passwords by default. If you have turned off or disabled this feature though, it might not. Every so often, I need to use the Firefox password manager to remember a password, and it seems that for the life of me I can not get it to do it. What might be the problem? Check your exceptions!
Tweak Facebook
Facebook is a tool that some of us use everyday, so we might as well make it look the way we want and add new abilities that we really need, right? FaceTweak is an add-on for Firefox that promises to be the Ultimate Facebook Enhancer. With it, you can add tons of tweaks to the Facebook interface and engine to get more out of this social networking tool.
Change the Firefox Spell Check Font Format
Want to make your misspelled words stand out a ‘bit more when composing a message in Firefox? It is easy to do with this quick about:config tweak. You can select no highlighting, a dotted line, long dots, a single straight line, a double underline or the default squiggly line.
Here is how you can make your spelling mistakes stand out more in Firefox.
Firefox 3.6 Fix – Open New Tabs in Far Right
New to Firefox 3.6, when you are on a page, and you want to open a link in a new tab – rather than opening the link in the far right of the tab bar, Firefox will now open the link right next to the tab you are in. Now, while this might be convenient for some, it is a feature I don’t really need. So here is how you can disable the new “Insert Related Tab After Current” tweak in Firefox 3.6.
Speed Up Firefox 3.5 Start up Times on Windows
Does it seem that Firefox 3.5 is a little sluggish when it starts on your Windows-powered machine?
Due to some unknown reason, Firefox on Windows pulls certain file locations for security reasons. In turn, having too many temporary, history or recent document files will slow down Firefox 3.5’s data generation process. A bug has been filed about this, but in the mean time – the best thing you can do to help fix it is to do a little house cleaning.
The fix here is to browse through and clear both Internet Explorer’s history and cache and Firefox’s history and cache as much as you can. You can find more help with this process at these resources:
I had not noticed this problem too much – then again, I have my Firefox temp files set to clear every time I close the browser and I hardly ever use Internet Explorer. How about you?
UPDATE:
This problem was fixed in Firefox 3.5.1. To check for updates, be sure to go to Help > “Check for Updates…” in Firefox. Thanks to the Firefox development team for the speedy update!
Disable and Undo Tab Tearing in Firefox 3.5
One of the new features coming to Firefox 3.5 was tab tearing. What has become a nuisance for some, it lets you drag a tab outside of Firefox and launch in a new window. I kind of like the feature, however if you do not – there is an add-on that will help sooth your pain.
You will want to pickup the bug489729 add-on for Firefox. This oddly named extension comes with two main controls. You can:
- Disable Detach Tab – use this to disable tab tearing
- Enable Drop URL – use this to be able to drag a tab to your desktop to create a shortcut.
Now, what if you want to keep tab tearing, however you would like the ability to undo a tab detachment? Then you need to pick up the Undo Detach Tab add-on for Firefox. As the name says, it will add a context menu option where you can undo your tab tearing.
Firefox’s Gray Bar and Red Text Problem
Ever have the problem of Firefox’s main browser window being a little messed up looking? What I am speaking of exactly is a large gray bar along the bottom, wish some red text in it. I have not run into this problem in a long time, but I know others have – so wanted to cover it and how to fix it.
First thing you should do is follow the common Firefox troubleshooting tips:
Check for Faulty Add-ons
Next, take a look at your extensions. It could be that one of your add-ons you have installed has a problem with it. First thing I want you to do when checking out your add-ons is to go to Tools > Add-ons and then click on the “Find Updates” button. See if updating any of your add-ons might help get rid of the issue.
The next suggestion would be to go to Tools > Add-ons, disable all the add-ons you have installed, and then restart Firefox. If the problem has gone away after that, you can then enable add-ons until the problem comes back. This should help you figure out which add-on is at fault. It could also be caused by a combination of add-ons, that do not play nice together, so do not rule that out as a possibility too.
Could it be Spyware/Malware?
This suggestion from mozillaZine might also be worth checking into:
If the problem is in Firefox on Windows, check for a file named m3ffxtbr.manifest in the “chrome” folder of your installation directory (usually “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\chrome\m3ffxtbr.manifest”). If the file exists, delete it, then restart Firefox. This file is created by the “MyWebSearch Toolbar” (a form of spyware).
Be sure to check out this knowledge base post for more tips on working with this nasty problem. Now the last and nuclear step would be to do a fresh or clean install of Firefox to see if you can get rid of the problem that way. It is a drastic step, but has worked for me in the past.
Print Only What You Want in Firefox 3
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.
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