Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird tips and tricks

breakerfall · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:03 pm Post subject:

Hmmm, is it possible to have Firefox open typed URLs in a new tab when hitting Control and Return? In mozilla, I could set the option in preferences to do this, so that I wouldn't necessarily need to open a new tab first.

I also preferred being able to do a google search directly through the URL address bar...

Thanks

[edit]
Got the google bar thing sorted heh.

c0mplex · n00b Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 4

Wow Wow Wow!

These tricks helped my a lot. Thanks!
_________________
Mozilla FireFox RULEZ!!!!!!!!!
Knowledge Management

transient · l33t Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 759

breakerfall · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 4:38 pm Post subject:

transient · l33t Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 759

breakerfall · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 1:09 am Post subject:

Beekster · Apprentice Joined: 26 Nov 2002 Posts: 268 Location: Sydney

Things like adblock etc may have made the following redundant...

These host entry additions will block access to all known add servers, trackers etc.

More info here.

rhill · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 5:01 am Post subject:

If you're always getting a Profile Manager pop-up when you try to open a URL from an external app when FF is already running, it's because of mozilla-launcher. There are two ways around this. First, you can change the app settings to point directly to the FF executable instead of /usr/bin/firefox (which is just a symlink to mozilla-launcher). For example, if you use the mozilla-firefox-bin ebuild, point your app to /opt/firefox/firefox. The second way is to just symlink /usr/bin/firefox to the actual executable.

If you find yourself unable to install additional plugins for the search bar, it's probably a permissions problem. Make sure your /pathto/firefox/searchplugins folder is globally writable. This drives a lot of people nuts because Firefox just fails silently with no indication of why it's not working.

Speaking of the search bar, you can find every plugin imaginable at http://mycroft.mozdev.org/ Be sure to grab the Gentoo Forums, Bugzilla, and Packages engines. Finally, combine this with Cusser's ContextSearch extension. Now you can highlight any word or phrase on the web and throw it into any search engine out there with a simple right-click.

One tip for Thunderbird. By default it abbreviates the names of newsgroups. It can be a PITA to tell the difference between g.c.g.devel, g.l.g.devel, g.l.g.p.devel, and g.l.k.devel sometimes. to have TB show full names of newsgroups, put the following in a file named ~/.thunderbird/<profiledir>/user.js

hpestilence · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 82

These setting are what i use to make it easier for me to browse the web.

Edit: search for these in about:config

transient · l33t Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 759

_GeG_ · n00b Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 36

good idea, this thread!

If you visit often forums where you do not want to register for a quick view, this extension is great: bugmenot -> http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=566

and here is a good source for extensions:
http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/
_________________
Don't like your neighbor? --> https://tips.fbi.gov/

hayesty · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 1

cgmd · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 2:08 pm Post subject:

OK... since firefox is being hacked, I have a very basic and fundamental noob question...

How can I get a url from the firefox address bar to go as a shortcut to my KDE desktop? Drag and drop doesn't work for me as it did on my windows desktop...

There's got to be something I'm overlooking!

Thanks...

linux_girl · Apprentice Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 287

cgmd · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:46 am Post subject:

linux_girl wrote:

linux_girl · Apprentice Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 287

for exempl if u want to catch url like ed2k:// ad a prot hadler in => about:conf like described above

make a shell script like $HOME/bin/ed2k.dump:

gtr-xu1 · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 2:11 pm Post subject:

My fav FF/TB feature is that you can store your profile on other discs, or systems. I keep my TB profile on a fat32 partition so I can access it from Windows and Linux. Works excellent - Really easy to set up too, when I get time I will do the same thing with my firefox bookmarks - There is a howto on the Mozilla site.

Laters

Hikaru79 · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 5:54 am Post subject:

I have the Java plugin working fine for Firefox, but say I want to be able to run Java applets in Firefox's RSS Aggregator part. Is this possible? Do I need some extension, or is there a way to enable this?

transient · l33t Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 759

linux_girl · Apprentice Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 287

just wondering if it is posible to :make firefox send html->text to festival --tts
so it easyer to listen then to read long pages of manuals.
_________________

Hikaru79 · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 3:07 pm Post subject:

effloresce · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 109

Linux scrollbars.
In both userChrome and userContent files.

codergeek42 · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 9:48 pm Post subject:

I just realized something cool: If you install the -bin packages (www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin and mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin) then they automagically have the links working.For example, clicking a mailto: link in Firefox opens a Thunderbird "Compose Mail" window, and clicking a link from an email in Thunderbird magically opens the site in Firefox. That's very cool!

_________________
~~ Peter: Programmer, Mathematician, STEM & Free Software Advocate, Enlightened Agent, Transhumanist, Fedora contributor
Who am I? :: EFF & FSF

opentaka · l33t Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 840 Location: Japan

transient · l33t Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 759

By latest you mean 1.1.x?
It still works on all 1.0.x versions