Firefox hints&tips thread

Post by **117** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 1:28 pm

Thought i'd start a thread for the little-known cool stuff you can do in Firefox

Post by **117** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 1:30 pm

If you highlight a word, then right-click it, you get an option entitled "Web search for", it opens a new tab and does a google search for the word, very handy methinks

Post by **fac51** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 1:35 pm

sweet. ive changed my google toolbar to the .co.uk one rather thatn .com

i assume everyone knows how to do this but if not i'll post it

love the way you can drag links onto the toolbar as well as desktop items - it soo cool :mrgreen:

Post by **117** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 1:37 pm

nope don't know how to change the google toolbar, do tell!

Post by **117** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 1:44 pm

just installed Mozilla Amazon Browser from http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#mozamazon , tis really handy, now i just need to figure out how to get a button for it on the toolbar

Post by **fac51** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 1:48 pm

click on the G in the google bar then click on add engines and there are loads to add

Post by **117** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 1:54 pm

there's no Add engines option on mine? You mean the googlebar builtin to firefox yeah? what version of firefox you using?

Post by **fac51** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 4:04 pm

version 0.8

there is a google toolbar already built in but it's the .com one - if i click on the G symbol in the toolbar i get the option to add more

Post by **117** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 12:24 pm

just realised i was trying to right-click it, when you actually need to left-click it! problem solved!

MaThIbUs · Post by **MaThIbUs** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 8:47 pm

pm popups on guru don't work with firefox!

MaThIbUs · Post by **MaThIbUs** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 9:15 pm

Find As You Type kicks arse

Post by **Chris** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 9:46 pm

MaThIbUs wrote::o pm popups on guru don't work with firefox!

That is probably because the popup blocker blocks all popup windows :lol:

arfur · Post by **arfur** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 9:49 pm

If I click manage bookmarks I can sort them say alphabetically, if I open the bookmark windows (ctrl + b) the list is sorted alphabetically. However when I click bookmarks from the menu bar its sorted by dated added I think, any ideas how to get it alphabetically. In IE you just r click|sort by name.

On closer inspection of the Extensions list I found this http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#sortbookmarks

Post by **fac51** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 6:40 pm

does firefox store cookies in the same place as IE?

Post by **117** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 6:47 pm

Chris wrote:
MaThIbUs wrote::o pm popups on guru don't work with firefox!

That is probably because the popup blocker blocks all popup windows

but if you click on the icon in bottom-left corner of Firefox (only appears when it's blocked a popup), you can set it to allow popups from that site