Firefox Settings

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

Settings

Force pop-ups in a new Tab

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1066799

1. Enter about:config into the address bar
2. Search for the preference named "browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction"
3. Change its value to 0.

Don't close browser with last tab

1. Enter about:config into the address bar
2. Search for the preference named "browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab"
3. Change its value to false.

Firefox disable website notifications

1. Go to url: about:preferences
2. Search 'notifications'
3. Look for 'Permissions' and sub-item 'Notifications'
4. Click Settings
5. Check 'block new requests ~'

Usage

Find bookmark in folder structure

1. Open the website the bookmark points to
2. Click the bookmark star-icon in the address-bar
3. In the dialog you can see where the bookmark is located

Block functionality

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

Ads

• Adblock Plus

• Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon

See also:

• Raspberry Pi - Pi-Hole Network-wide ad blocking

Script

• 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>

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