Tip #4524 - Five Firefox Tricks
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Five
Firefox Tricks
It’s been
so long since I've written about everyone’s favorite Web browser
of Firefox! This time, instead of talking about how you can install
such and such application to customize such and such feature to increase
functionality by 200 percent, etc., etc., I thought I’d just
write about five quick tips you can use in Firefox. Here we go!
1.) Keyboard
Navigation
Do you get sick
of moving your arm to get ahold of the mouse just so you can click
on a different tab in Firefox? Well, I sure do! Luckily, the same
thing can be done using keyboard shortcuts. By using Ctrl
+ Tab, you can move through all of the open tabs from left
to right. If you want to go directly to a tab, all you have to do
is press Ctrl + the number of the tab you want from the left. For
example, hit Ctrl + 2 for the second tab from the
left. Cool, huh?!
2.) Delete
a URL
Ever find yourself
at a loss when you want to delete the address of a particular Web
site from your history? Well, you know you can open the history sidebar
and delete everything, but what if you also want to delete it from
the drop down menu on the address bar? Well, all you have to do to
delete an address from the address bar menu is highlight it and press
Delete. Poof! The evidence is destroyed!
3.) Download
Page Media
Let's say you
visit a Web page and you want to download a certain embedded component,
such as a Shockwave file, an image or an animation. What do you do?
Well, let’s also say that the page is protected and it doesn’t
even let you right click anywhere. How would you be able to download
anything from that page then? For this, just go to Tools,
Page Info. That should open up a new dialogue box.
In that box, click on the tab that says Media.
As you can see
in the screenshot above, you will see a list of available media on
a particular page. Click on one of them and you will be able to preview
it in the link list. Click on your desired file and go to Save
As. That will allow you to save a media file from that particular
Web page!
4.) Get
More Screen Space
To free up more
space on your screen, you can make your icons smaller. To do that,
just go to View, Toolbars, Customize.
You will then see a little checkbox that says Use Small Icons.
Checkmark that and bada bing, you’re done!
5.) Instant
Search
To search for
any text on a particular Web page, you probably usually use Ctrl +
F, right? Well, now you can do that even faster by pressing the "forward
slash" key (it's the same one as the question mark key) on your
keyboard. That will highlight the Quickfind window. So, to recap,
you press the forward slash key, which activates the window, and you
type in the text you want to search for. It's so quick and easy!
There you go!
Five more quick Firefox tips you can use at any time. I hope these
will help you have a great new year with Firefox!
~ Yogesh Bakshi
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