If your Firefox give no respond when you click the Page Up, Page Down, Home or End button, you might have activated caret browsing. You might also notice that there will be a blinking text cursor when you click on a passage or text on a website.
You might have accidentally activated the caret browsing without noticing it and started scolding when those buttons won’t work.
To solve the problem, just simply press on the F7 key.
For the pass month (or since late December 2007 if I’m not wrong), one of the most popular Firefox extension for AdSense publishers, the AdSense Notifier, had stopped reporting earnings correctly—but just zeros for all values. That was due to the updates Google made, which had changed the reports page to AJAX and added extra HTTP calls to retrieve the reports.
The author of AdSense Notifier had recently updated the extension on the 6th of February, and reports are showing correctly now. Feel free to update your AdSense Notifier for it to work properly again.
Update to AdSense Notifier 0.9.6
Firefox by default is already very powerful internet browser, but you are probably not getting the most out of it. Getting the most out of Firefox basically means doing more on Firefox with less time. That will definitely increase your productivity.
You have probably seen this else where as it has been posted millions of times on the internet. But in case you are still using the default Firefox settings, then these tips might help in speeding up your Firefox.
Type “about:config” in your address bar and hit enter.
In the filter, type “network.http”.
Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to ‘true’
Set network.http.pipelining to ‘true’
Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to ‘25′
Set network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server to ‘22′
Now right-click anywhere, select New → Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to ‘0′.
You should see the difference now in website loading speed on your Firefox. There are still a lot of tweaks in this area, you might want to Google for more.
Now you have a faster loading Firefox, but it’s still time consuming to scroll so much. There are a lot of buttons and menus on Firefox, and most probably you haven’t been using some of them ever since you installed Firefox.
Follow this guide on Lifehacker to eliminate useless items on your Firefox and squeeze all the useful ones together. The difference:
Before
After
From 4 huge toolbars, you will only have 3 compact toolbars now. That’s quite some space restored. What? 3 compact toolbars is still too much for you?
What about auto hiding your bookmarks toolbar when it is not in use? It will appear when you mouse over it, and collapse when you don’t. Like this:
Follow this guide for this awesome tweak.
One of the reason why Firefox is so popular is because it has a very large library of extensions. Some extensions will make your Firefox more powerful and resulting in higher productivity.
One of the most useful extension that I think will benefit just anyone:
DownThemAll! - It is a download manager for Firefox that you will love to have. Why? Because you will be pleased to have your download speed to be increased up to 400% faster and download a whole bunch of images or files off a website within clicks. It’s logic that faster file downloading speed will save you more time.
Quick Online Tips has a great list of 50 Firefox Extensions for power surfing. Pick some of them that you think will be handy, or you can alternatively look through the whole extension library.
Trust me, getting used to shortcut keys can really save up a lot of time and can lead you into getting things done much faster. Below are my favorite hotkeys that I use frequently:
Ctrl + T - Open a new tab
Ctrl + Shift + T - Open last closed tab
Ctrl + N - New window
Ctrl + W - Close current tab
Ctrl + + - Increase font size
Ctrl + - - Reduce font size
Ctrl + Tab - Next tab (just like Windows’s Alt+Tab)
Ctrl + U - Open page source
F5 - Reload
F11 - Full screen
Middle click on link - Open link in new tab
Middle click on tab - Close tab
For the full list, keyboard and mouse
Do you know any other tips that can make Firefox more useful? Let us know by posting a comment below.
There are several reasons to do so. When typing URL on the address bar on Firefox, a list of website addresses that you have previously visited will appear. For example, you previously visited example.org, and the next time you type “ex” on your address bar, example.org will appear as a suggested URL.
The list is helpful as you can visit the website again in no time by selecting it from the list. But if you don’t want a certain website to appear on that list, be it a mistyped URL or a website that you won’t visit anymore—then you might want to removing it from the history.
Of course you can also remove the URL by deleting the entire history, but that will cause other URLs to be deleted as well. This trick is useful too if you are using someone’s else computer for browsing but don’t want to get the owner notice it.
To delete an entry from your Firefox history, type the URL out on your address bar, highlight it and press Shift+Delete (it works too on my Firefox by just pressing Delete without Shift, but most other guides suggest to include the Shift as well).
(Hover your cursor on the address to highlight)
You will never see the URL being suggested again while typing on your address bar until you visit that particular website again manually.