Firefox Settings
This page some Firefox extensions that I use regularly. Click on the name to search for them on Mozilla's site.
Force pop-ups in a new Tab
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1066799
- Enter about:config into the address bar
- Search for the preference named "browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction"
- Change its value to 0.
Don't close browser with last tab
- Enter about:config into the address bar
- Search for the preference named "browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab"
- Change its value to false.
Enhanced functions / add-on
Firefox disable website notifications
- Go to url: about:preferences
- Search 'notifications'
- Look for 'Permissions' and sub-item 'Notifications'
- Click Settings
- Check 'block new requests ~'
Find bookmark in folder structure
- Open the website the bookmark points to
- Click the bookmark star-icon in the address-bar
- In the dialog you can see where the bookmark is located
Block functionality
Block images, popups banners and flash before they annoy you:
block ads
See also:
Block functionality
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:
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.
