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Starting a Tips & Tricks to help newcomers (or older users

who may have forgotten). Please add your Tips and/or tricks... Keep it simple.... AND PLEASE DON'T POST ANY QUESTIONS... Use the Search Function(at

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Tip: Double Clicking empty space on the Tab Bar will open a 'New Tab'

Tip:

Middleclick/MouseWheelClick on a Bookmark on your Personal Toolbar will open it up in a New Tab

Tip: MiddleClick/MouseWheel Click on a folder

will open all the bookmarks in the folder in a new Tab(s) (Note: see http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic....18#1015518)

Tip: holding down

the Shift or Ctrl key when you RightClick to "View Image" or "View Backround Image"will open the image in a New Tab or New Window.

Tip: Unused

menus or menu Items can be hidden by using the customizing your userChrome.css stylesheet (do a forum search for more info)
MenuEdit is also

useful: http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php...l=menuedit

Tip: Extensions can greatly add functionality to FireFox. Browse

extensions at http://update.mozilla.org and another excellent source http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php.

Tip: MiddleClick/MouseWheel Click

on a Tab will close that Tab.

Tip: MiddleClick/MouseWheel Click on a History item will open the page in a new Tab

Tip:

MiddleClick/MouseWheel Click on the Back and Forward buttons will open the last/next page in a new Tab

Tip: MiddleClick/MouseWheel Click on the

Home button will open your homepage in a new Tab(s)

Tip: MiddleClick/MouseWheel Click on the Throbber (the 'busy' icon at the top-right) will open

the Firefox homepage in a new Tab

Tip: For those without middle mouse buttons or mousewheels, ctrl-click will also open new tabs for links,

bookmarks, bookmark folders, history items, and toolbar buttons.

Tip: Ctrl+TAB you can navigate in the tabs to the right

Tip: Ctrl+Shift+Tab you

can navigate in the tabs to the left

Tip: Many Laptops mimic the MiddleClick/MouseWheelClick function if you click both right/left pads at the same

time.

Tip: Set mutliple Home pages : Tools---->Options--->General and seperate each page with the pipe | symbol
(eg http://forums.mozillazine.org/

| http://www.google.com | http://www.yahoo.com | http://forums.mozillazine.org/
Tip: Clear your Download history to make the download manager more

responsive : Tools---->Options--->Privacy

Tip: Rearrange add/remove Icons on Toolbars: View--->ToolBars--->Customize....

Tip: Drag any link to

the Download Manager Window to add & download the link

Tip: Middle-clicking in a link wherever will open that link in a new tab.

Tip: Pressing

ctrl+enter will add http://www. before and .com after the text in the toolbar and load the resulting url. Similarly, shift+enter will add http://www. and .net, and

ctrl+shift+enter will add http://www. and .org

Tip: You can work offline like in IE by clicking File>Work Offline. This means that you can browse your

previously visited pages even when you're offline.

Tip: If you wish to remove an item from your Address Bar Drop down menu, Highlight it

WITHOUT CLICKING and use Shift+Delete

Tip: A bookmarks's position Dragged & Dropped (ie. change position in a Folder or move from one folder

to another or move to another position on the toolbar) by highlighting it & clicking on it (WITHOUT LETTING GO) and Dragging it to your desired

position

Tip: A Folder can be move the same way as above tip but u MUST hold down the SHIFT key while Dragging

Tip: Former/current users

of IE who are accustomed to copying items from "Temporary Internet Files" folder (FireFox calls it "Cache" ) can achieve the same results by

Tools--->Page Info and then select the "Media" Tab, then Highlight the item u want to download and clicking "Save As..."

Tip: If u accidentally delete a

bookmark and want to recover it, if it is not already open then, open the "Bookmarks Manager" (Bookmarks--->Manage Bookmarks) and either use Ctrl+Z or

Edit--->Undo (in The Bookmarks Manager)

Tip: DoubleClicking a file entry in the Downloads Manager will open/launch the file (provided u haven't

moved it yet)

Nice long list of tips! ;)

_ISR_m3rc_

Yea thanks for all of those tips.

The listed tips and tricks are really very good. Most of them are working really without any trouble. It is very useful for me and I am looking for such thing from a long time.

I really appreciate for this tips and help, this is useful for many people over-there , i was really looking for this kind of activity from many times.
Thank you.

Nice tips. Very useful.

A post from before Omni's registration date.

big list there, will defo come in use. Thanks for sharing

Some of these tips were very helpful, thank you.