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Thread ID: 79489	2007-05-21 20:41:00	Do you know these Firefox tips?	Strommer (42)	Press F1

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551812	2007-05-21 20:41:00	To stop animated gifs from moving, press the ESC key . If that does not work, right click the gif > Rewind to make the gif disappear or Forward to freeze it (try with the NZI advert on the right of this page) . Instead of pressing Ctrl + f to find a word: Tools / Options / Advanced: Search for text when you start typing . . . . or . . . / to find word, F3 to find next instance . . . . or . . . type /word it will highlight the word and press Ctrl+G to “Find Again” that word again Double Clicking empty space on the Tab Bar will open a ‘New Tab’ R click on the tab bar and undo "close" tab CTRL + and CTRL - to increase/decrease font size =========== See also: 15 Coolest Firefox Tricks Ever . lifehack . org/articles/technology/15-coolest-firefox-tricks-ever . html" target="_blank">www . lifehack . org Includes How to Limit RAM Usage, and How to Speed up Firefox: If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads . This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by default, it’s optimized for dialup connections) . =========== Mouse shortcuts . * Middle click on link (opens in new tab) * Shift-scroll down (previous page) * Shift-scroll up (next page) * Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size) * Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size) * Middle click on a tab (closes tab) ===== STILL MORE ====== The list I found on Digg . 1 . To quickly find any word in a web page type /word it will highlight the word and press Ctrl+G to “Find Again” that word again 2 . If you wish to remove an item from your Address Bar Drop down menu, Highlight it without clicking and use Shift+Delete . 3 . Clear your Download history to make the download manager more responsive : Tools | Options | Privacy 4 . Type about:cache?device=disk in your address bar to view/save items that you have in your firefox disk cache 5 . Type about:cache?device=memory in your address bar to view/save items that you have in your Firefox memory cache 6 . Drag any link to the Download Manager Window to add & download the link . 7 . If you accidentally delete a bookmark and want to recover it, open the “Bookmarks Manager” and use Ctrl+Z,or Edit | Undo . 8 . Double Clicking empty space on the Tab Bar will open a ‘New Tab’ 9 . Holding down the Ctrl key when you right click to “View Image” or “View Background Image” will open the image in a New Tab or New Window . 10 . A bookmarks Folder’s position can also be Dragged & Dropped but you must hold down the SHIFT key while Dragging . 11 . You can work offline in Firefox just go to File > Work Offline . This means that you can browse your previously visited pages even when you’re offline this is a really cool feature but not many people who use it . 12 . You can bookmark the current page by dragging the icon from the location bar to your Bookmarks folder . You can also drag it to the desktop to make an icon for that page . 13 . To stop animated gifs from moving, press the ESC key .	Strommer (42)
551813	2007-05-21 20:46:00	Yup, know most of it but thanks for the other tips :thumbs: Firefox rules.......	ronyville (10611)
551814	2007-05-21 22:05:00	"To stop animated gifs from moving, press the ESC key" - applies to most browsers. :)	Renmoo (66)
551815	2007-05-21 22:46:00	I looked at the 15 tricks link. Wow the speed tweak really does improve things on a broadband connection. Really worth doing	jermsie (6820)
551816	2007-05-22 00:09:00	Thanks for that link, much appreciated. Cheers.	Pato (2463)
551817	2007-05-22 06:25:00	"To stop animated gifs from moving, press the ESC key" - applies to most browsers. :) Firefox and Internet Explorer, yes, but what other browsers? Doesn't work in Opera. Also, as soon as you browse to another page on the same website the animations begin again so you have to keep pressing the ESC key. To stop animated GIFs in Opera press F12 and put a cross in "Enable GIF/SVG animation". Kills all animations until toggled back on again. Much better. :cool:	FoxyMX (5)
551818	2007-05-22 06:42:00	Yup, know most of it but thanks for the other tips :thumbs: Firefox rules....... Ditto, though I did like no. 6. Thanks:cool:	beeswax34 (63)
551819	2007-05-22 10:34:00	I didn't know hardly any of them, thanks.	supergran (108)
551820	2007-05-22 10:41:00	4. Type about:cache?device=disk in your address bar to view/save items that you have in your firefox disk cache 5. Type about:cache?device=memory in your address bar to view/save items that you have in your Firefox memory cache Those tips are neat! Not sure the practical use of them, but interesting anyway. :p	Jen (38)
551821	2007-05-22 10:50:00	Those tips are neat! Not sure the practical use of them, but interesting anyway. :p I found that one interesting Jen, cos I had been clearing cache, via (tools, options, etc) I thought, and it had got full and just made another folder, so deleting the spare cache folder, and then emptying the one that was there, and my net browsing seems to be faster already.	supergran (108)
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