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 / add-on
Firefox disable website notifications
- Go to url: about:preferences
- Search 'notifications'
- Look for Permissions end Notifications
- Click Settings
- Check 'block new requests ~'
Tab Mix Plus
(discontinued) 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.
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
gTranslate
(discontinued) With gTranslate you can right-click a selected text and translate it on the fly.
Password Exporter
(discontinued) 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
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.
