Firefox stuff
I've been firefox (or its predecessors firebrid etc) for quite some time now. The latest installment of firefox, version 1.0 caused me a couple of headaches as a whole bunch of my extensions stopped working. As a result, I removed all of my personal settings and started anew with my firefox install.
Here are some of the settings I changed
General settings
- Use a blank page as home page
- Change all serif fonts to sans-serif. I don't like curls and all in my fonts when I'm browsing.
- Change the download folder to ~/downloads
- I don't want to see any download manager as they clog my desktop
Favorite extensions
Tabbed browsing is the bomb. I'm an avid user of ctrl-T, ctrl-W, ctrl-pageup, ctrl-pagedown, ctrl-shift-pageup, ctrl-shift-pagedown, and if you don't know of these shortcuts in firefox, try them out, now!
Important settings that I like:
- Single window mode, i.e. never allow firefox to ever open a second browsing window, I'm a tab fanatic (I don't want to get lost in 10 browser windows, I have a regular place for the places I usually visit)
- For a new tab, open a blank page and put it just right of the tab I'm currently using (no use putting it in the end, this option gives me better control when initializing new tabs)
- If the current tab is closed, bring me the tab I selected last. No use going to a random tab in my list of tabs
- When I close a window, just close all tabs. I only have one window after all, so I can't be bothered with the tabs when I want to shut down firefox
- Show a closebox in any tab
- I'm very fond of the tab groups mode, where tabs are arranged into groups using a coloring scheme in the tabs
I'm very much relying on google while I'm working. I consequently want a good arsenal of assault weapons when I'm undertaking a search mission, and Firefox' google toolbar offers a lot of great quick'n'dirty search tools right at my fingertips.
- I'm only interested in the "Search Google", "Search Images" and "Search Dictionary" buttons on the bar
- The googlebar is great if you're looking for something, and you want to find/highlight the specific word you have been searching for in the page.
This extension used to be called weatherfox, but seemed to have changed its name very recently
- I track the weather in Antwerp, Belgium, whcih has code BEXX 0003?
- Of course I like metric units, what else?
Obviously, I hate ads. Installing adblock allows you to easily block ads as you see them, and marking their origin (the servers that serve the ads) to be blocked from being displayed.
I love these three extensions for firefox, they're all made by the same group, but they haven't been tagged for version 1.0 yet :( Hope it doesn't take too long.