Category Archives: Tips & Tweaks

How To Downgrade Firefox Add-ons
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Posted on December 19, 2011 by

 It sometimes happens that one of your favorite add-ons gets an update that you are not happy about. A new add-on version can for instance break functionality, introduce changes that you do not want or decrease the browser’s stability or … Continue reading →

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Always Up-to-Date Power User’s Guide to Firefox
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Posted on December 13, 2011 by

 Now that Firefox is on a rapid release cycle, we’re getting a new version of Firefox every three months—and each time, it becomes more tricked out than ever with new customization options, shortcuts, and convenient features hidden away in its … Continue reading →

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Restoring default about:config settings
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Posted on December 5, 2011 by

While it is easy to make customizations via Firefox’s about:config manager, it can also be easy to really mess things up. Hence the reason Mozilla has the below warning (which replaced Be Careful,This gun is loaded! warning starting with Firefox 3) … Continue reading →

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Unhide Forward Button in Firefox 11
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Posted on November 23, 2011 by

For whatever reason, Mozilla has decided starting with Firefox 11 to hide the forward button when you can not go forward. For once, this is not something that Mozilla has copied from Google Chrome, as the forward button is always … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 11.0, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla, Google, Tips & Tweaks | 4 Comments

Wiki Updates
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Posted on November 15, 2011 by

Over the past couple days, we have gone through and updated the Wiki. The Extensions section has been updated for Firefox 7.0 and 8.0 compatibility and about a dozen new extensions that have already been discussed on the blog were … Continue reading →

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Replace Firefox Default Favicon
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Posted on November 15, 2011 by

The new default favicon for sites that don’t have a favicon is nothing more than a dotted square. In the past it resembled a piece of paper. Here are a couple options to replace the current favicon.  Add these lines … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, General Mozilla, Tips & Tweaks | 5 Comments

FaviconizeTab
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Posted on November 14, 2011 by

While Tab Utilities has a lot of stuff to offer, the only feature I really needed was to have the ability to Faviconize a tab. As B. Moore pointed out, there is add-on that does just that, FaviconizeTab. For those … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 10.0, Fx 11.0, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla, Tips & Tweaks | 1 Comment

Tab Utilities
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Posted on November 14, 2011 by

I was pointed to this add-on in the Firefox Builds forum when I had first inquired why my App Tabs were loading in Firefox 9 Beta upon start-up even though I had Don’t load tabs until selected checked. I had … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, General Mozilla, Tips & Tweaks | 4 Comments

Clear Firefox Button
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Posted on November 13, 2011 by

As a result of the UI changes in Firefox 8 with the inverted (white) icons, the add-on App Button Clear does not work correctly. Besides being ‘incompatible’, when the add-on is forced to work in Firefox 8, it turns the … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 10.0, Fx 8.0, Fx 9.0, Tips & Tweaks | 1 Comment

Starting with a Fresh Profile
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Posted on November 11, 2011 by

Updated 11/16/2011: Added info for backup and restore of Greasemonkey and Stylish scripts. Also added new step in the Starting Over section. If you’ve been using the same profile since Firefox 3.6  (or older) you may run into performance issues … Continue reading →

Posted in Add-ons, Blogs, Browsers, Firefox, Fx 3.6, Fx 4.0, Fx 5.0, Fx 6.0, Fx 7.0, Fx 8.0, General Mozilla, Tips & Tweaks | 13 Comments