Firefox tips and tweaks

I'm currently transitioning from firefox 2 to firefox 3, so there are some minor inconsistencies in this page.

Tips

• Stuff you probably know: cntl-T, cntl-w, cntl-tab, shift-cntl-tab, alt-right, alt-left
• To forget an individual autocomplete from the urlbar: start typing an URL, press the down arrow to selet the URL you want to delete, shift+delete

Preferences

• Main::"When Firefox starts" = "Show my windows and tabs from last time"

add-ons

Check out https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/recommended/ and addons sorted by popularity and addons sorted by rating.

See https://addons.mozilla.org/collections/bayle-shanks/bshanks/ for a list of add-ons that i like.

Other comments about some addons:

Addons that let you post stuff to identi.ca/twitter:

• shareaholic: has current rankings in menu; wordpress
• addthis: can do via icons; wordpress
• yoono: also does following stuff like twitter and facebook. all-in-1 but bloated and slow
• echofon: lightweight twitter

Tab clicking options

• double-click on tab: close tab
• middle click on tab: paste in URL

extensions i'd like to see but that i can't find

• fulltext search over history (that is, over the pages that are in your history)
• fulltext search over all bookmarks under a particular folder
• "plain text copy" so that i can select text with entities and then paste it into the command line or emacs (in GNU/Linux)

about:config

A list of about:config settings is at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries.

• browser.tabs.closeButtons: 3
  • This makes one "close tab" button on the right side of the tab bar (like in 1.5)
• browser.tabs.tabMinWidth: 75
  • fit more tabs in before tab scrolling
• browser.urlbar.hideGoButton
  • true
• config.trim_on_minimize: True
  • See http://forevergeek.com/open_source/debunking_another_myth_firefoxs_memory_leak_bug.php
• browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace: false
  • see http://loftninjas.org/blog/2007/07/open-all-in-tabs-replaces-closes-tabs.html
• browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo: 60
• general.useragent.extra.firefox: Firefox/3.0.1
• network.dns.disableIPv6: true
  • speeds up dns resolution
• browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction: 0
  • prevents links, bookmarklets from opening new windows
• browser.cache.disk.parent_directory: /tmp (in combination with mounting /tmp as tmpfs
• browser.cache.disk.enable: false

keyconfig