Firefox 3 Hidden Tweaks And Settings For You.

I am a hardcore Firefox user and have been using it for about 3 years now. Firefox has been a stable browser in Mac OS X .Even if you are a regular Firefox user, you still may not know about the advanced configuration options. I reccomend these modifications for better browsing experience. To get these options, type about:config into the Firefox address bar. Once you hit return, you get a warning because modifying these preferences can cause strange behaviour.

Clicking "I'll be careful, I promise!" brings up a huge list of preferences, most of which aren't accessible from the normal Preferences dialog. As the list is so long, the best way to find things in it is to start typing the name of the preference into the "Filter" box at the top. Once you have found the one you want, double-clicking it allows you to change it. Here's a list of my favourite hidden Firefox preferences. All of them work in Firefox 3(the latest sensation in web browser , but only some work in Firefox 2.

1. browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll
The default behaviour, true, means that when you click the address bar, it automaticall selects all. Changing this to false stops this, and just inserts the cursor where you clicked.

2. browser.tabs.closeButtons
By default, Firefox displays a close button on every tab. Setting this preference to 0 will only display a close button on the currently open tab. Setting it to 3 will move the close button to the far right end of
the tab bar, and setting it to 2 will get rid of all close buttons.

3.browser.backspace_action
This changes the behaviour of the backspace key. setting it to 1 makes the backspace key scroll up a page
in the current window. Shift-Backspace will scroll down. 2 to make the backspace key do nothing. Except delete when text is selected, of course. Changing to 0 will change back to the default behaviour of
going back a page.

4. browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
Determines the maximum number of results that drop down from the URL bar when you start typing. Default is 12.

5. browser.fixup.alternate.suffix
Allows you to change the suffix that is automatically added when you don't specify one.

6. browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace
If you open a whole folder of bookmarks at once using "Open All in Tabs",they replace all of your open tabs. Setting this preference to false will cause the new tabs to only replace the current tab and add in the rest after it.

7. accessibility.typeaheadfind.casesensitive
Setting to 1 Makes the Find function (Command-F) case sensitive.

8. ui.click_hold_context_menus
Set this to true to enable the click-and-hold way to open contextual menus. One of my favourite tweak.

9. browser.tabs.tabMinWidth
If you open lots of tabs in Firefox, they shrink down so they all fit across the screen. After a certain limit, your tabs don't get any smaller and you have to scroll to the left and right to view other tabs. This preference allows you to set the minimum width. Default is 100, lower values will give smaller tabs.

10. browser.chrome.toolbar_tips
Setting this to false disables the yellow tooltips that appear when you mouse over the bookmarks bar.

11. layout.spellcheckDefault
Changing this value to 2 makes the spell checker work in all text boxes, not just the large text fields.

12. browser.search.openintab
Double-clicking this will set it to true. This makes searches from the box in the top right open in a new
tab rather than the current one.


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