http://firefoxgeeks.com Tips and Tricks on all things Firefox... Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:57:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You may, or may not enjoy the default loading bar color for Firefox 3. If you may want to change it, you may do so using the following option: 1. Locate the userChrome.css file in your profile folder (more information may be found here). 2. Add the following code to the userChrome.css ... http://firefoxgeeks.com/how-to-change-the-color-of-the-loading-bar/ Plurk has become on of the best social networking sites out there. It is used by many people to "Plurk" and get more Karma! Here FirefoxGeeks will show you how to do such: 1. Drag and drop the following link into your "Smart Bookmarks" bar: http://www.plurk.com/m 2. Right-Click on it and select "Properties." 3. ... http://firefoxgeeks.com/how-to-use-plurk-in-your-sidebar-without-an-extension/ Stylish is a really neat extension similar to Greasemonkey. It allows you to install certain scripts created by others to make websites and different pages look the way you want them to look. One "userstyle" called "Google Web Search - Dark Blue Redesign" obviously changes Google to be dark blue ... http://firefoxgeeks.com/stylish-tweak-firefox/ It can become completely absurd when windows are continually resized and possibly messing up other tabs. Here we will show you how to prevent windows from automatically resizing. 1. Type about:config in the address bar. 2. Locate dom.disable_window_move_resize 3. Double-click it to set it to true. http://firefoxgeeks.com/how-to-stop-windows-from-resizing/ You may want to conserve toolbar space or possibly just do not enjoy seeing the stop, back, and forward buttons at different times? Well here we will show you how to do that to make Firefox just that much better. Locate your userChrome.css file in your Firefox profile, e.g. C:\Documents and ... http://firefoxgeeks.com/how-to-remove-the-stop-back-and-forward-buttons/ Here is a list of three more add-ons I highly recommend downloading: 1. DownThemAll - DownThemAll downloads selected, or all, sections of a webpage to allow you access to any of the content. It includes many features that can be used in different methods to allow for maximum downloading. 2. FlashGot - ... http://firefoxgeeks.com/downthemall-flashgot-and-ctrl-tab/ Previously, Firefox did not support the option to allow users of web-based email to have mailto: links sent to their web-based email providers. Now, you may tweak Firefox to allow mailto: links to be redirected to your web-based email. Here is how to do it with Gmail: 1. Type about:config in ... http://firefoxgeeks.com/use-gmail-in-mailto-links/ Firefox is most certainly the fastest browser available, yet it can get even faster. 1. Type about:config in the address bar. 2. Find the following entires: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 3. Set network.http.pipelining to True. 4. Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to True. 5. Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 30 or somewhere around 30. 6. Right-Click and select "New," "Interger" and name it nglayout.initial.delay. ... http://firefoxgeeks.com/speed-up-firefox/ A large part of Firefox are the extensions. We here at FirefoxGeeks enjoy them a large amount - and probably have way too many. Anyway, here I will show you some of the top Firefox extensions that will allow you to customize Firefox in any manner possible. Here they are ... http://firefoxgeeks.com/top-firefox-3-extensions/ FirefoxGeeks is a website deticated to all things Firefox. We are complete Firefox Geeks! We need your help in spreading the word of Firefox. Please click on one of the icons below and download Firefox 3 to support us, yourselft, and Firefox in downloading the best web browser ever created. http://firefoxgeeks.com/support-firefoxgeeks-download-firefox-3/