So you can pipe home pages in firefox!!!!

Fighting Irish

Only found out how to do this pretty cool :cool:

http://www.boards.ie|www.cnn.com|http://www.google.com/

put that as your home page, and it opens each site in it's own tab when you open firefox

aidan_walsh

Have been able to do that with yonks. One of the nice little hidden features.

Fighting Irish

aidan_walsh wrote:

Have been able to do that with yonks. One of the nice little hidden features.

wish someone had told me about it anyone know any other little tricks

CyberGhost

yep, pretty old feature.

You know about QuickSearches? really useful

Fighting Irish

CyberGhost wrote:

yep, pretty old feature.

You know about QuickSearches? really useful

explain

aidan_walsh

Fighting Irish wrote:

explain

Hit the "/" key on any webpage, and you can start searching for text. It shows the first matching highlighted result as you type, or turns the text box red if there is no matching text.

Rollo Tamasi

ctrl + f does it as well

Fighting Irish

aidan_walsh wrote:

Hit the "/" key on any webpage, and you can start searching for text. It shows the first matching highlighted result as you type, or turns the text box red if there is no matching text.

ye i know about that its just a shortcut for ctrl+f

delly

When i first saw Firefox i was pretty impressed, but its all these little extras along the way that make it the dogs kahunas.

CyberGhost

Fighting Irish wrote:

explain

Sorry I meant "keyword searches"

But I'm positive you haven't heard about that feature either

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_keyword_searches

CyberGhost

delly wrote:

When i first saw Firefox i was pretty impressed, but its all these little extras along the way that make it the dogs kahunas.

Extensions ......

zAbbo

or you can just start typing and ff will search for it on current page, enable it on prefs.

CyberGhost

bazH wrote:

or you can just start typing and ff will search for it on current page, enable it on prefs.

hah! didn't know what that "begin finding when you begin typing" options was for, now I know, thanks

Fighting Irish

CyberGhost wrote:

Sorry I meant "keyword searches"

But I'm positive you haven't heard about that feature either

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_keyword_searches

i've always wanted that for firefox, its a built in thing in Opera as far as i know.
But i only really use google to search and i have a google search box at the top right anyways

Fighting Irish

bazH wrote:

or you can just start typing and ff will search for it on current page, enable it on prefs.

meh, i tried that before it gets annoying sometimes :mad:

Fighting Irish

What extensions do you guys use

heres mine




i would recommend getting the "Save image in folder" and " Save link in folder" pretty neat imo(see screen shot)

CyberGhost

Tabbrowser extensions -> Tabbrowser preferences
Download Statusbar -> Download Manager Tweak
Downthemall = awesome!
NoScript -> Allow right click - never worked for me well


I'll try the other extensions on your list, ty!

here's my list

Enabled Extensions: [52]
# Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.2.6 - Synchronizes Adblock with Filterset.G
# Adblock Plus 0.5.10 - Filters ads from web-pages. Now with whitelisting and synchronization.
# Autohide 0.9.9 - Tweaks for Full Screen. Eala Freya Fresena!
# BB Tager 0.5 - Copy BB formated images or links.
# Bookmark Backup 0.3.1 - Creates a backup of bookmarks.html each time the browser is closed.
# Compact Menu 1.7.4.5 - Duplicates the menubar on the toolbar as a menu of menus.
# Context Search 0.2 - Expands the context menu's 'Web Search' to use Mycroft Search Plugins.
# Cookie Button 0.8.1 - Button for easy access to cookie permissions
# Cookie Button in the status bar 0.8 - Button for easy access to cookie permissions in the status bar
# CookieCuller 1.3.0 - Extended Cookie Manager--protect/unprotect selected cookies
# CTC 1.0 - Adds "Close Tab" to the context menu
# CustomizeGoogle 0.39 - Enhance Google search results and remove ads and spam.
# CuteMenus 0.4 - Adds icons to menus and popups.
# De-ImageShack 0.5.7 - Converts ImageShack page links to image links
# Download Statusbar 0.9.4 - View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar
# DownThemAll! 0.9.8.3 - The mass downloader for Firefox.
# DragToTab 0.2 - (bug 179845) Drag files, links or text on to the New Tab and New Window icons in the toolbar to open them in either a new tab or in a new window respectively.
# Edit Config Files 1.5.7 - Edit configuration files with your favorite editor.
# Extended Statusbar 1.2.4 - A Statusbar with Speed, Percentage, Time and loaded size (like Opera's one)
# Fasterfox 1.0.2 - Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.
# File Title 0.3 - "Save as" title as default like in IE
# Flashblock 1.5 - Replaces Flash objects with a button you can click to view them.
# FlashGot 0.5.9.99 - Enables single and massive("all" and "selection") downloads using the most popular external downloadmanagers for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD(dozens currently supported, see Extension's Home Page for details).FlashGot offers also a Build Gallery functionality which helps to synthetizefull media galleries in one page from serial contents originally scattered onseveral pages, for easy and fast "download all".
# Flat Bookmark Editing 0.7.5 - Edit bookmarks in the bookmark manager, without opening the properties window.
# IE View 1.2.7 - Open pages in IE via Firefox menus
# Image Toolbar 0.6.3 - Provides easy access to common image functions.
# InfoLister 0.9c - Lists installed extensions and themes
# keyconfig 20050313.1 - Rebind your keys.
# Linkification 1.1.6 - Converts text links into genuine, clickable links.
# Linky 2.7.1 - Open/download/validate links and pictures in tabs or windows
# Locate in Bookmark Folders 0.2.4 - Locates a bookmark in Bookmarks Manager's folders tree or in the Bookmarks Sidebar, complementing the Bookmark Search feature of Firefox.
# Menu Editor 1.2 - Customize application menus
# MenuManipulator 20050529.0.0.1 - Makes menus customizable
# Mozilla Archive Format 0.6.2 - Save complete web pages in a single file.
# MR Tech Local Install 4.0 - Local Install power tools for all users.
# NoScript 1.1.3.5 - Extra protection for your Firefox: NoScript allows JavaScript, Java (and other plugins) only for trusted domains of your choice (e.g. your home-banking web site). This whitelist based pre-emptive blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality... Experts will agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript :-)
# OpenBook 1.3.4 - Allows for customization of the Add Bookmark dialog
# PDF Download 0.5.1.2 - Allows to choose whether you want to view a PDF file inside the browser (as PDF or HTML) or you want to download it!
# PopupSound 0.1.4 - Plays a sound when a popup window is blocked.
# RefControl 0.8.2 - Control what gets sent as the HTTP Referer on a per-site basis.
# Search Button 0.4.5 - Adds a Search button for use with the Search Bar.
# SearchPluginHacks 0.1.3 - Allows uninstalling search plugins - just right click on a search plugin and choose 'Delete'
# ShowIP 0.7.99.11 - Show the IP address of the current page in the status bar. It also allows querying custom services by IP (right mouse button) and hostname (left mouse button), like whois, netcraft. Additionally you can copy the IP address to the clipboard. (0.7.99.11 == 0.7.11, just circumvent an addons.mozilla.org ordering bug)
# SpoofStick 1.03 - A simple way to detect spoofed websites.
# Stop-or-Reload Button 0.2 - Turns the stop and reload buttons into a single one. When you can stop, you have a Stop button, otherwise you have a Reload button. (Like in Safari)
# SubmitToTab 0.3.3 - (bug 17754) Direct the submission of a form to a new tab.
# SwitchProxy Tool 1.3.4 - A tool that allows you to manage and switch between multiple proxy configurations quickly and easily.
# Tabbrowser Extensions 2.0.2005120501 - Improves tabbed browsing.
# TargetAlert 0.8.9.5 - Provides visual cues for the destinations of hyperlinks.
# Update Bookmark 0.0.4 - Allows bookmark properties to be set to the current page's properties or to clipboard text quickly via the context menu.
# View Cookies 1.5 - View cookies of the current web page.

Disabled Extensions: [1]
# Download Sort 2.5.4 - Automatically save downloads to different directories.

Btw, you should create a separate thread for this.

flogen

I tried DTA and didn't like it at all, it just didn't do the job.
So when I tried to download all videos on a page it just wouldn't happen, I'd have to do it manually (although it did mean I could do it all in one go and leave it to work away... stuff still timed out though)

CyberGhost

which website did you try to download videos from?

flogen

a website that I can't link on boards.ie.....

Hmm_Messiah

sorry to go off thread I guess, but new to firefox, like it so far, but I had a problem when it "froze", and I'd to choose a different profile in firefox to continue surfing

question is how do I swich profiles to get back to the one with all my bookmarks

if that makes sense

eg had a hmm.messiah one, then had to start "new1", how do I get back to "hmm.messiah)

Capt'n Midnight

Mr Tech Extension - I like they way you can go My Config - Save BBCode

Generated: Fri Dec 16 2005 13:07:21 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build ID: 2005111116

Enabled Extensions: [26]
- Adblock 0.5.2.056
- BBCode 0.4.1.3
- Card Games 1.0
- DOM Inspector 1.8b5
- Download Statusbar 0.9.4
- Duplicate Tab 0.6.2
- FirefoxView 0.31.2
- FireFTP 0.90.1
- Firesomething 1.6.0
- Flags 0.5
- Flashblock 1.5
- FlashGot 0.5.9.99
- Gcache 0.2.1
- IE View 1.2.7
- Image-Show-Hide 0.1.7
- LoremIpsum Content Generator 0.4.1
- MenuManipulator 20050529.0.0.1
- MR Tech Local Install 4.0
- NoScript 1.1.3.5
- Nuke Anything Enhanced 0.53
- Open link in... 1.4
- Paste Quote 0.3
- Remove It Permanently 1.0.6
- Talkback 1.4.1
- User Agent Switcher 0.6.7
- Wayback 0.2

Disabled Extensions: [6] - mainly 'cos they don't work in 1.5
- HanziBar 0.41b
- MeasureIt 0.3.5
- Periodic Table II 0.1
- SecurePassword Generator 0.5.1
- Stop-or-Reload Button 0.2
- SwitchProxy Tool 1.3.1

Total Extensions: 32

Installed Themes: [1]
- Firefox (default)

Installed Plugins: (26)
- Mozilla Default Plug-in
- OpenOffice.org Plug-in
- QuickTime Plug-in 6.5.1
- VLC multimedia plugin

delly

Don't know if its the same or not, but i use IE tab instead of IE view. With this there is no need to open IE at all, which i presume is what IE view does.

Capt'n Midnight

ietab is a vary neat Firefox Extension that allows you to switch between the IE and Firefox rendering engines right within the Firefox browser.

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=1419

I'll give it a go..

CyberGhost

I prefer IE View tbh, If you need to use IE, it's better to use as stand alone and not integrated within Firefox.

steveland?

Hmm_Messiah wrote:

sorry to go off thread I guess, but new to firefox, like it so far, but I had a problem when it "froze", and I'd to choose a different profile in firefox to continue surfing

question is how do I swich profiles to get back to the one with all my bookmarks

if that makes sense

eg had a hmm.messiah one, then had to start "new1", how do I get back to "hmm.messiah)

if that ever happens again close it, hit ctrl+alt+delete, go to processes and stop firefox.exe

It happens cos there's still a firefox process running.

Can't remember how to change profiles, it's something like going to start>run>firefox -p or something along those lines... someone else will know