Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird tips and tricks

[ElijahLofgren]

[opentaka]

Here you'll find some good adblock filter's!

[plac3bo]

Transient

[opentaka]

you could stop annnoying webpages resizing and moving your browser by making this value "true' from about:config

[noneckturtle]

What do I need to do to enable realpalyer in Firefox on Gentoo?

Thanks.

[TrueDFX]

[opentaka]

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=170970

tips and tricks of firefox ;D
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[stevenaleach]

I know there has to be some simple explanation for this but...

Does anyone know how to get Firefox to recognize and list Cups printers? I first noticed this running ArchLinux. I installed firefox, go to print and the only option is "Postscript Default". Later after an update, suddenly when I selected print I had the Postscript Default as well as both printers connected to my server. Great! Now I have an Amd64 laptop, so I'm running Gentoo - I installed firefox-bin and thunderbird-bin and once again I have "Postscript Default" only.

I've gotten around the problem by installing gtklp and using this as the print command, but still I would love to know how to get it set up so that I can just select the appropriate printer when I select print.

[Shadow Skill]

Can someone explain to me why I can't change the text color in the searchbar...Here is my code:

[TrueDFX]

Try "#searchbar input" or maybe "#searchbar html:input" (not sure if that's necessary) instead. There is a child of #searchbar that overrides the colour, so #searchbar's isn't actually used; to work around this, just set it for the input block specifically.

[Shadow Skill]

It was searchbar-textbox FINALLY I got the colors to change to what I need. Let me ask you is it possible for me to define a set of colors for websites without using the gui override tools which screw up all websites. I want to have it set so that whenever the website doesn't expressly define the text color and background I can force the background to either be white, or if the text is not defined properly I can set the text color to black for example?
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[COiN3D]

Dunno if it has already been mentioned, but this plugin called "Session Saver" is awesome. I couldn't live without it anymore. It saves your tabs when you exit Firefox and re-opens them when you start Firefox again.
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[m0p]

My tweaked stuff:

[Sheepdogj15]

for you guys who want to bleed out whatever speed you can get, and you have plenty of RAM to spare, check this out. after reading this thread regarding /tmp and /var/tmp, i set it up so that those directories are mounted in RAM, rather on the disk. (read the whole thread before trying it out, because there is important stuff there regarding making portage not use /var/tmp, and cleaning out those dir's). the details on how to do that are in that thread.

anyhoo, i bring it up because i just set it up so firefox's cache is now in /var/tmp. what's cool about this is that for sites i go to pretty often, images and such almost load instantaneously, whereas there had been a small but noticable delay. i don't know for sure, but there might also be a slight speed up if you go to a new sight. it depends on how Firefox handles writing to cache (if it does it while loading, then that's a disk write operation, which means time). if so, i haven't noticed it myself, but then i haven't paid attention for it either.

basically, if you do mount it in RAM using tmpfs, move the "Cache" folder from your profile directory into /var/tmp (or /tmp... i have it in /var/tmp because i set it up to save /var/tmp over reboots). then, create a symlink in your profile folder, with the same exact name, and point it to the real Cache folder. not too hard
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[Sheepdogj15]

heh. it apparently doesn't work as i thought it did.

when Firefox is restarted, it replaces the symlink with the folder again.

so, instead, you can bind it in using the mount command. e.g.

# mount --bind /var/tmp/firefox /home/usr/.mozilla/firefox/profile/Cache

put it in your local.start to have it done on bootup and put a corresponding "umount" command in your local.stop
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[Shadow Skill]

Does anyone know how to remove the close tab button from firefox via the css file? [If its already been said in this thread I'm sorry but im barely conscious right now seeing as its four am here.] It just started annoying me all of a sudden, and I must make it go away.

Offtopic: Is there a simillar thread here for opera? I'd like to elongate the search bar in that browser as well but can't seem to find it in Opera's rather extensive options.


Edit I found the answer to my first question.

I also found that the example for hiding the help and go menu entries does not work with firefox 1.0.4 win32 anyone else experience that tweak not working on thier systems?

One last thing is it possible to put the progress indicator and rss feed/plugin status symbols in the url bar like they are in Opera?
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[instauration]

I emerged mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.5 last night and now I can no longer open a new tab in Firefox when clicking on the link in Thunderbird email.
Current versions:
www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.35
www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0.5
mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.5

I have a script in /usr/local/bin called 'fftab' which I use as the setting for 'network.protocol-handler.app.http' in prefs.js under my .thunderbird directory.
Here's the prefs.js setting: user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/local/bin/fftab");
Here's the script (taken from MozillaZine posting, not my own):

[Oxidative]

I'm having the same problem, although I only have the usual lines in my user.js

[Sheepdogj15]

i haven't had this problem
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[Fritz Heinrichmeyer]

i call it an error in /usr/bin/firefox

this works for me, here is my /usr/bin/firefox:

[Oxidative]

Thanks Fritz, that fixed it right away
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[linux_girl]

1)any idea on how to get rid of the firefox ugly filechooser in favour of kde filechooser ? app ported from win to linux always handle prety bad filechoosers !!!

2)any how to make festival read html pages ?

3) merge all kde bookmarks with firefox ?

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4)how to make firefox lunch faster or to make it always in memory(RAM) and never get to swap for desktop user.
i belive it can be done with a sticky chmod but i duno how
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[Thunrida]

With Thunderbird 1.0.5 head of message pane become really loaded with information. Temporarly solution is not to show it (click "-"), but it's a bad solution. I can't see now if message is for me only of for many people. And this info gets included when I fw mail. And what is worse, I cannot edit it, for it is in some kind of object. So I have to manually copy paste only address and say:hey, this came from "mail...".
This is the whole info I'm talking about. Does enybody knows the solution, how to get old style back?

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[TrueDFX]

Isn't there an option in the View menu to switch between showing all headers and showing only some headers? Perhaps the default setting simply changed for you? (Disclaimer: I haven't used Thunderbird in a while.)