Saturday 28 December 2013
Mozila Tricks and Tips
1. Handle Multiple Tabs with Keyboard:
Mozilla Firefox provides feature of multiple tabs, you can handle
multiple tabs by keyboard. Below are some tips to handle multiple tabs
by using keyboard.
- Ctrl+Tab (Rotate forward among tabs)
- Ctrl+Shft+Tab (Rotate to the previous tab)
- Ctrl+1-9 (Jump to a specific tab)
2. Change behaviour of close button:
Sometimes by mistake you click on close button of Firefox tabs. Here is a trick to remove or move close tab button.Type about:config in the address bar and hit Enter button,
then search for browser.tabs.closeButton in filter field.
When you find it double-click on given result. It will show you a prompt with default value 1. Change it to different values for different behaviours.
- Enter 0 to display a close button on the active tab only.
- Enter 1 (default Value) to display close button to all tabs.
- Enter 2 to avoid displaying any close buttons.
- Enter 3 to display single close button at the end of the tab bar.
3.Set an external program to view page source
When you want to view page source, Firefox opens it in its built-in page source viewer. If you want to view page source in yourdesired text editor program like Notepad, open about:config and set the preference view_source.editor.external to true. After that set the preference view_source.editor.path to full path of your desired program's EXE file for example, C:\Windows\Notepad.exe.
4. Specify Firefox memory cache usage
By default, Firefox dynamically utilizes the memory cache based on the amount of your system memory. To specify a fixed amount of memory cache, open about:config and add new Integer preference browser.cache.memory.capacity and set its value to any of following:-1 : (Default) Set memory cache dynamically
0 : No memory cache
Numbers : Memory size in KB, For example 1024
You can also disable memory cache completely by setting the preference
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