Browser Stuff
It suddenly occured to me that a lot of people don't know anything in regards to about:config in FireFox (you are using FireFox, right?) or helpful add-ons, so I decided to dedicate and entire section of my site just to that purpose.
about:config
To get to the config page in FireFox, type "about:config" (without the quotes) into the address bar. From there, you can search for what you need.
- Making the middle mouse button (button 3) paste
- middlemouse.paste: change the value to true by double clicking on it.
- Making the in-browser search open in a new tab
- browser.search.openintab: change the value to true.
- Viewing the page source in your own editor
- view_source.editor.external: change the value to true.
- view_source.editor.path: enter the path, beginning with the heighest level; mine is C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe.
- Spell-checking forms
- layout.spellcheckDefault: change the value to 2.
- Number of close buttons in the tab bar
- browser.tabs.closeButtons: change the value to
- 0: display on the current tab
- 1: display on all tabs (default
- 2: none, use ALT + F4 to close current tab
- 3: display one master close button at the end of the tab bar (works like 0)
Add-Ons
- Menu Editor
- This add-on allows you to cusomize the options on your context menu (the right-click one, for people like my mother).
- Adblock Plus
- This add-on is probably the most customizable ad-blocker available. It's easy to use and easy to disable/enable.
- Firebug
- This tool allows one to view and dynamically change the stylings and codings of web pages.
- FaviconizeTab
- This addon helps keep the tab bar in FireFix neat and tidy by changing the width of the tab to be the size of the favicon. There are also options for keeping the close button, double-clicking to activate, and even start tabs as automatically faviconized.
