With the Print Hint Firefox extension, you will never have to second guess if a Web site has a special style sheet set aside for printing the content.
This extension helps you to quickly find printer-friendly versions of webpages. A green icon indicates the presence of a ‘print stylesheet’. Webpages with a print stylesheet have been specifically formatted for printing. Click on the green icon to print.
+ Download and Install the Print Hint Extension for Firefox!
Do you use Google Reader a lot?
Ever since Google moved Google Reader over to the newer, cleaner and better design I have been using it to handle all of my feed reading. I have gone from FeedBurner, to Newsgator, to Rojo to Google Reader – so I have tried a lot. Google Reader beats the rest of them hands down.
I just posted my big Google Reader Guide over at my personal blog, Mitchelaneous. There are a lot of Firefox and Greasemonkey goodies in there for you to check out, so please do so. If you know of any good ones that might have missed let me know as well. I did my best to find the best of the best.
I really hate waiting for packages because it seems like it ruins my day most of the time. Everybody (other than UPS) seems to forget where my house is or they like to hide the packages somewhere on the property and just tell me, “they were delivered”. Well I have an extension that might help you track packages – but it will not (unfortunately) give the bad delivery services a kick in the rear for you.
This extension makes it easier to track a package when the web page or email does not provide you with a link to the shipping company’s tracking page. Simply highlight the tracking number, right click, and click “Track Package”. It will automatically determine which company’s tracking page to go to.
Right now this extension currently supports: UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS, Canada Post, TNT and Purolator.
+ Learn More About and Install the Track Packages Extension for Firefox!
This is a question we get time and time again, so I thought I would post the full listing for where your profile folder is for Mozilla Firefox based on your operating system of choice…
Windows 95 (without Desktop Update)
C:WindowsMozilla
Windows 95 (with Desktop Update)/98/Me
C:WindowsApplication DataMozilla
C:WindowsProfiles<Windows login/user name>Application DataMozilla
Windows NT 4.x
C:WinntProfiles<Windows login/user name>Application DataMozilla
Windows 2000 and XP
C:Documents and Settings<Windows login/user name>Application DataMozilla
Windows Vista
C:Users<Windows login/user name>AppDataRoamingMozilla
Unix
~/.mozilla/
Mac OS X
~/Library/Mozilla/
~/Library/Application Support/
Looking for an easier way to access your profile folder? You can do so right from the menu bar, if you know where to look for it. Make sure you check out this tutorial for an even easier way to find your profile folder:
Find Your Firefox Profile Folder, The Easy Way!
Hope that helps you locate your Firefox profile folder. If there is a location I missed, be sure to let me know and I will get it added.
One of the best features about Firefox is the about:config window. You can hack away and play with just about every aspect of the browser from there. Here is a guide I ran across that helps you use about:config to get rid of a few annoyances.
After installing Firefox, there are things I must do every time to make it behave sanely. Thank God for about:config. Strange how all of these things are disabling some feature of Firefox. Maybe Firefox tries to do too much.
Want to close the current tab in Firefox 2? Well here is a simple – yet easy way to get that done. All you need to do is hit the keyboard combination of Ctrl+W. That will close the current tab you are viewing and allow you to quickly get out of there.
Now this might be handy if you have folks looking over you shoulder, or if you boss quickly comes in the room and you don’t want them to see you are listening to the Web Hosting Show podcast.
Greasemonkey is one of my favorite extensions to ever come out of the Firefox browser, and it seems to be the first thing I install whenever I am setting up a new installation of our favorite browser. To help with some of the details with Greasemonkey, I have found a neat Web site. All you need to do is read, and then click the page to get something new. Very innovative indeed.
Want to know a little more about some of the “hidden” parts of Firefox’s configuration? Well, over at JiggedyJoo (I just typing that) they have gone through just about all of them very quickly. This would be a good spot for a beginner to learn about such things as “about:config”.
Quite a few people know about the about:config page of Firefox, but there are more options than that under the hood of everyone’s favorite browser.
To peruse the contents of the cache, you can enter about:cache into the address bar, hit and look through. This has the advantages of being able to look at content stored locally, great if the connection breaks, or if the material on the site gets taken down / removed.
Alright, so it is not the biggest Firefox annoyance, I will give you that. Sometimes though I don’t want to have my photos resized to fit inside of the browser window. Call me crazy, but I think it distorts the picture in most cases and I still have to end up resizing it to full view to fully enjoy it. Well here is how you can get rid of that auto resizing “feature” in Firefox.
First thing you need to do is type in about:config inside of your address bar. Once you have made it there, you need to look for:
browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing
If you can’t find it, just enter that into your filter box and you should be good to go. Now here is where the magic happens! Double click that entry in about:config to set it to false. Now every time you see a picture on the Web you will be enjoying it in full view. No more resizing for you!
Do you need a general tweak and usability guide for the new Firefox 2 browser? Well I would argue that not too much has changed, but having a handy reference is never a bad thing. The folks over at TweakGuides.com have written up a pretty long and in-depth helper for the newest member of the Mozilla family.
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox for short, is just a free Internet browser. It’s not a cure for cancer. It doesn’t wash your car or make you a frothy coffee. So why all the fuss and hype over Firefox? In a nutshell, the reason is simple: Firefox is a true open source competitor to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
