How To Change Firefox Location Bar Searching

September 7th, 2005 Problem Firefox downloads any file to desktop by default. This soon leads to a cluttered desktop.

October 25th, 2005 If you, like me, has been the victim of Yahoo Spyware aka Yahoo IM then you may notice that in the firefox location bar if you type in a keyword, it takes you to Yahoo preferences page. Previously it used to perform a Google "I'm Lucky" Search and take you to the first page of its search results automatically.

July 14th, 2007 This question was posed by a visitor of this site. Here is how you can change the default home page location in Firefox and everything you can do with it.

July 15th, 2007 Firefox has the annoying habit of popping up an error message after 5 seconds (10 seconds for Firefox 2.x) when running Javascript code. This causes lots of irritation because a) some script genuinely need more than the default time, b) the error message pops up repeatedly after every 5-10 seconds thereby severely ruining your browsing experience and c) the strangely worded warning where Cancel is what allows you to continue responds very sluggishly and looks like hanging even on my Core 2 Duo machine.

December 16th, 2008 This is a very simple trick and most of you know about it already. For those who don't, its a real pain to see Firefox browser downloading any file to your desktop by default.

July 31st, 2007 This is a sporadic error that I have seen in Firefox browsers while using the Ext JS components. It is not harmful in any way but is annoying.

January 3rd, 2006 Today we will discuss three productivity tips which has helped me most in Firefox last year. Location bar for "I'm Lucky" Google Search In the location bar (where you type in the URL) if you type in a word or phrase and hit [Enter] - the browser does a "I'm Lucky" Google search which effectively does the search and takes you to the first matching page.

May 14th, 2006 Strangely you cannot set browser window status bar using javascript (by setting window.status) in Firefox. There are two simple ways you can enable it.

July 14th, 2007 In Firefox when you click on a file to download / view the browser comes up with a prompt which allows you to either open the file with a specified program or save it to disk. You are also given the option to "Do this automatically for files like this from now on".

September 28th, 2009 CentOS comes with OpenJava JRE installed. However that doesn't provide the required libraries to run Java from browsers (read: applets).

July 17th, 2006 Share Firefox with a friend. If your friend downloads Firefox before September 15, you’ll both be immortalized in Firefox 2.

May 14th, 2007 SessionSaver is a popular Firefox extension which allows you to seamlessly save existing session and restore it automatically at startup. You can also name the session and retrieve them anytime in future.

July 13th, 2006 The key new features of Firefox 2.0 beta (with brief commentary) are: Integrated spell-checker - no more excuse for poor spelling in form data Bookmarked web site summary - small updated headlines that sites can create that display in the bookmark sidebar in Firefox Crashed session recovery - finally I can replace tab browser extension Re-open recently closed tabs - this one is a life-saver Anti-phishing warning popup - I hate popups but will let this one slide. Search suggestion - live dropdown of suggested terms while searching Tab close button on tabs - Personally I like ctrl-w better, a close button on every tab just makes it more crowded, not convenient RSS feed preview - provides information on an RSS feed when the user is subscribing to it You can download and test it here.

December 16th, 2005 Firefox has its own share of troubles. If I happen to open few sites with Flash advertisements on them and leave it open for some time, Firefox gobbles up most of the memory and becomes dog-slow.

October 8th, 2006 While downloading Fedora Core 5 using DAP, I ran out of temporary disk space (which is by default in C: drive) thereby wasting several hours of download. Download Accelerator Plus (DAP is a popular file download utility) saves the partially downloaded segments in %TEMP% directory.