This seems pretty straightforward but sometimes, it’s that straightforward functionality that you need. By default, Firefox does rich text copying, meaning that when you copy text from the browser, you also copy the text formatting. This can be pretty useful when copy a text from a page to a word processor like Word.
However, for [...]

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This tweak is for those sites that still force your browser to open a new window. That behavior is too IE for my taste. In any case, you can always set Firefox to open these links in a new tab. It’s pretty easy to do from the interface, just click Tools -> Options -> [...]

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Hot off the news and into your computer. Google just made available Google Gears (BETA). It’s “an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using JavaScript APIs.” These include:

Store and serve application resources locally
Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness

Imagine web [...]

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Mozilla just released the latest incarnation of Firefox 2 with 2.0.0.4. The release notes emphasize on these important updates:

Security Update: The following security issues have been fixed.
Windows Vista Support: More enhancements and fixes for Windows Vista are included, with the following caveats.
New Languages: Afrikaans (af) and Belarusian (be) are now available. Beta releases for [...]

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Now being a self-professed keyboard ninja, I’ve been a bit biased on featuring shortcuts. Sorry. My bad. So let me make it up to you with this summary of mouse shortcuts for Firefox for mouse ninjitsu practitioners.
These include navigation and display shortcuts that you execute with a some keyboard modifiers. Yes, it involves a [...]

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Life is one of those things that you can’t play through “God mode.” But at least in most computing chores, you can. Or at least have a cheat sheet handy. As for Firefox, yes, you can cheat and hack your way through most of the work.
I’ve been featuring mostly add-ons and tweaks here that [...]

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Titlebar Tweaks offers a simple feature but it may suffice for those who want to further customize how their browser looks like without the hassles of going down to the level of code. It lets you do any of the following tweaks with your title bar:

Display the browser name before the page title
Display only [...]

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This may come in handy for those who always look for exact matches including case. Sure you can always just click on the “Match case” check box in the Find bar. But for those who always use the feature, this little tweak will make sure that little box is checked by default.

Access the about:config [...]

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For those of you who have used Opera, you might miss its great sidebar control features. Firefox is more of a toolbar type of guy and the sidebar’s mostly used up by add-ons and the default options to access the bookmarks or history.
I haven’t really tried out this add-on previously but now that I’ve [...]

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Sometimes, a random idea blurted out of nowhere can give your mind the proper jolt it needs. Works for me sometimes. Here’s one little Firefox add-on that lets random messages pop-up on demand - Random Message. Clicking a little button in your status bar will bring up random message pop-ups, like this one.
Best for [...]

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Yesterday, I featured this nifty tweak that makes Firefox select only the word when you double-click on it. By default, Firefox includes that little space after it.
In any case, you’ll also probably notice that the double-click selection also wouldn’t include punctuation marks. Say if you’re working with tags, double clicking [strong] would select [...]

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For mouse ninjas, application developers have almost made it a standard to make use the double-click as the mouse command for selecting a word (or if you’re a keyboard ninja, it’s holding down ctl + shift + right arrow key). If you notice in Firefox, however, the default behavior is if you double-click on [...]

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Conversion to PDF is now easy with all the conversion software that we have lying around. At least we’re all free from having to avail the ever-pricey Acrobat Pro software. We’ve got web sites and freeware apps that we can use to convert PDF, a few suggestions can be found on this post.
For today’s [...]

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Ever remember MC Hammer? For those who grew up in the 80s through the early 90s, you would definitely remember him. Fancy buzz cuts and baggy pants galore. And why not? He’s responsible for catchy-ass tunes and most memorably, the catch phrase, “Stop! Hammer time!”
And here’s a nostalgia trip/ prank attack for Firefox users. [...]

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Ever made the wee mistake of entering search terms in the address bar instead of in the search bar? Well, if you ever did, then you may have observed that if you did, it’ll re-route the string to be searched in Google via the “I’m feeling lucky” option. This would then display that page.
But [...]

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