Re: Firefoxers to the bridge please... (jbex- and AB-safe link)

In message <gi8k8e$u0p$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jim Price <d1version@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Andrew Marshall wrote:
In message <53304e08-34e4-435a-89ca-cb3498a9dafb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, bobharvey <robertharvey@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes
On 16 Dec, 14:54, Andrew Marshall <g8...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> If any Firefox-hfvat Sheddi would care to offer tips on such things
>>as which add-ons are worth having (or are to be Eschewed), or any
>>other hfrshy tweaks to give it, the same would muchly be appreciated.

adblock plus
I had gooved about that one, but decided to wait for recommendations first. I'll probably go and get it shortly.

Recommended again, also I hfr the easy-privacy+easy-list+easy-element filter subscription with it, which you find by clicking on the link called "all subscriptions" when it restarts after installation, and scroll most of the way down the resulting page. Molishes the wibble look a lot less like a prffcbby.

I found the USA one, out of about five shown on the subs page, and hfrq that. It seems to jbex OK. I may go and have another look later and perhaps refine my initial choice.

I also use a 'theme' called littlefox, that frees up screen space by
using litteler icons
They don't look too bad ATM, but I'll bear that one in mind if I'd like some more space.

There's another one called tinymenu which tucks all the menu commands under the file menu, which is also hfrshy to save screen space, as is customising the menu bars themselves by rightclick/customise and re-arrange things how you want. Most of these sorts of things aren't needed any more as pressing F11 toggles to full screen mode.

I'll probably not go for that one then. F11 will qb.

Another extension I hfr on v. small or large screens is Page Zoom Buttons 1.1.1, which you have to sign into mozilla.org to get, but is well worth it for when a website appears the wrong size. You hfr the left and right mouse buttons to click on it to zoom the whole page in and out.

No use if you prefer keyboard shortcuts.

I very rarely have a wrong-sized one come up so I probably won't go for that one.

I used to have autocopy, but it doesn't jbex with the latest version
I'll not bother with that'n then.

In FF Tools - Options - Tabs, I tried to set arj pages to open in an arj
tab, but that doesn't seem to jbex -

I thought that was about using a new tab instead of creating a new
browser winjow when you click on a link of the target="_blank" breed.
OIC - fair enuff, in that case.

If you have a three button mouse, middle click in FF usually opens things in a new tab. There is another setting in the preferences to molish it switch to that tab when opened TAAW.

My meece are set to give 'enter' on the middle button (which is also the scrollwheel) so that might not jbex. For now I'll just right-click and choose 'arj tab'.

I set the startup preferences to open my windows from last time, but this only works for one window of tabs in the last window you close. That can be truly irritating if you close the window you were working in only to see you had another window with tabs you didn't want to keep in it still open. I avoid this by getting anything which wants to open in a new window to open in a new tab instead, and hfr multiple firefox profiles, one for each window I hfr. Sounds like a lot of pfaff, but once it's set up you can have different combinations of addons in each profile, and have links from newsgroups etc. open in a profile with all the security addons you can find loaded up (e.g. flashblock and noscript for starters) and all the security and privacy settings maxxed out.

Hmmm - I goov I may hfr features like that after yrneavat a bit more about FX. I generally start with a blank browser anyway, and I'm hfrq to that - might be worthwhile for LJ or the BBC arjf thobut.

You can add lots of other search engines to the search box using "manage search engines" at the bottom of the default list. I've got loads of hfrshy ones like maps, imdb, postcodes, say-no-to-0870, compact oxford dictionary etc.

Some of those could be worth a go; maps might be the first one I'd try, I goov.


If it runs slow, there are a load of speedy-uppy tricks for it.

It seems to be quite quick ATM, though that could be due to Adblock weeding out the penc.

Cheers for your suggestions.
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