Firefox Settings
This page some Firefox extensions that I use regularly. Click on the name to search for them on Mozilla's site.
Settings
Disable password pop-up
Using a password manager you might want to disable this dialog.
You can disable 'Ask to save passwords' in the settings. However, that would also disable this function for all sites.
I usually pick 'Never save' until I visited most password sites until it calms down a bit.
Disable translation dialog 'Translate this page?'
- Enter about:config into the address bar
- Search for the preference named browser.translations.automaticallyPopup
- Change its value to false.
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
- Go to URL: about:config
- Search for the preference named browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab
- Change its value to false.
Firefox disable website notifications
- Go to url: about:preferences (settings)
- Search 'notifications'
- Look for 'Permissions' and sub-item 'Notifications'
- Click Settings
- Check 'block new requests ~'
Firefox force new tabs to load in background
- Go to URL: about:config
- Search for the preference named browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground
- Change its value to true.
Firefox disable quick find
Shortcut "/" brings up "Quick find" which can be quite annoying if you want tu use this character.
- Go to URL: about:config
- Search for the preference named accessibility.typeaheadfind
- Search for the preference named accessibility.typeaheadfind.autostart
- Search for the preference named accessibility.typeaheadfind.manual
- Change all these values to false.
Firefox on-video picture-in-picture button
If you hover over the video, the picture-in-picture button becomes visible. This, however, is suppressed for short videos. I found that streaming videos need to run for the duration before the button becomes available. You can lower this value here.
- Go to URL: about:config
- Search for the preference named media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture.video-toggle.min-video-secs
- default value is 45, lower this to for example 1
Usage
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:
Ads
See also:
Script
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.
