Firefox Settings

This page some Firefox extensions that I use regularly. Click on the name to search for them on Mozilla's site.

Enhanced functions

Tab Mix Plus

Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more.

Go parent Folder

The plugin Go parent Folder enables you to see where a bookmark from a filter result is located.

gTranslate

With gTranslate you can right-click a selected text and translate it on the fly.

Password Exporter

With Password Exporter you can export and import your saved passwords to and from XML.

Block functionality

Block images, popups banners and flash before they annoy you:

block ads

• Adblock Plus

• Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon

Block functionality

• NoScript: block Javascript, Flash, Silverlight etc.

Search

Add right-click search engines

Make search functionality available in the Search Bar with Add to Search bar

The search engine's URL can be customized to your wishes. I made changes to IMDB search to jump to the best match immediately, instead of showing all possible matches. This trick uses Google's 'Im+Feeling+Lucky' function. First make sure you have the IMDB search engine and then modify it following beneath example.

gedit /home/$USER/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/searchplugins/imdb.xml

<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/"
 xmlns:os="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
  <os:ShortName>IMDb</os:ShortName>
  <os:Description>IMDb</os:Description>
  <os:InputEncoding>ISO-8859-1</os:InputEncoding>
  <os:Image width="16" height="16">data:image/png;base64,icon_image_data_here</os:Image>
  <SearchForm>http://www.google.com/search</SearchForm>
  <os:Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.google.com/search">
    <os:Param name="btnI" value="Im+Feeling+Lucky"/>
    <os:Param name="q" value="IMDB+{searchTerms}"/>
  </os:Url>
</SearchPlugin>

Force Firefox to remember passwords

How to force Firefox to remember passwords, despite the site's indication to not allow that:

• http://www.werockyourweb.com/force-firefox-save-password (older versions of Firefox)

The file we want to edit has changed, renamed from omni.jar to omni.ja and compressed differently, read this:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/About_omni.ja_%28formerly_omni.jar%29

1. Unzip and ignore warnings:

locate omni.ja
cp /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja $HOME/tmp
cd $HOME/tmp
unzip omni.ja -d ./omni
cd omni
gedit components/nsLoginManager.js

2. Two lines of the file nsLoginManager.js in the archive omni.ja are commented to make function _isAutoCompleteDisabled always return false:

    /* _isAutoCompleteDisabled
    * Returns true if the page requests autocomplete be disabled for the specified form input. */
    _isAutoCompleteDisabled : function (element) {
        //20130727: wjv: commented this part to always return false
        //if ( element && element.hasAttribute("autocomplete") && element.getAttribute("autocomplete").toLowerCase() == "off")
        //  return true;
    return false;
    },

3. Re-create omni.ja. Make sure you maintain a copy of the original:

zip -r ../omni.ja
mv /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja_original
cd ..
cp omni.ja /usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja

4. Restart Firefox.

Context Search Menu

Context Search expands the context menu's 'Search for' item into a list of installed search engines, allowing you to choose the engine you want to use for each search.

Development

Debugging JavaScript in your webpages

Firebug