[HOWTO] Firefox 2.0 Beta - Useful tricks

devsk · Last edited by devsk on Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:56 pm; edited 4 times in total

1. Currently, session restore is not a default (only a crashed session is restored by default) and is not present in the preferences either. Open a tab and type about:config in the location bar. Create these four keys if not already present.

browser.sessionstore.enabled | Type: boolean | Value: true
browser.sessionstore.interval | Type: integer | Value: 30000 (equals 30 seconds)
browser.sessionstore.resume_session | Type: boolean | Value: true
browser.sessionstore.resume_session_once | Type: boolean | Value: true

After doing this restart firefox and you won't be missing the session saver extension anymore.

EDIT: it seems like FF2 can restore sessions with prefs->main->when my broswer starts, select restore instead of home page.

2. Here is how to disable tabs scrolling
- Enter about:config in the url bar and go
- Scroll down to browser.tabs.tabMinWidth
- The default set value for this is 100.
- Double click on it, and change the value to 0″ to disable tab scrolling totally
- Select a low value like 10 if you want scrolling when tabs get real small like 10px

3. Set the browser.tabs.closeButtons preference (*) to "3" to display a single close button at the end of the tab strip (like Firefox 1.5). "2" removes all the close buttons, "1" puts a button on every tab that is big enough (default), and "0" puts one only on the active tab.

devsk · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 5:00 am Post subject:

Another useful tool for the beta lovers:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/958/

using this addon, you can install extensions which are deemed incompatible to firefox 2. Most extensions work ootb with FF2 beta and hence this is a great tool for enabling your favorite extension.

Konsti · l33t Joined: 10 Dec 2002 Posts: 691

The new firefox Beta is interesting.
But is it possible to insert new tab next to current tab without extension now?
Either I am to stupid to find the option or it is still missing :-(

stahlsau · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject:

hiya,
thanx for the tip!

bMd · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 110

Thanks, was meaning to add the session restore to default on

bobman83 · n00b Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 6

rhill · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject:

Nightly Tester Tools
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devsk · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:29 pm Post subject:

the guy likes freedom...so here goes:

http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/nightly/index.html

bobman83 · n00b Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 6

Thank you guys, that seems to be a really good thing

daavan42 · n00b Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Pasadena, CA

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

yeah firefox 2 is nice, but I feel like it's taking longer to actually kill the process. (even after closing firefox, the process is still there for another few seconds)
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