Category: Web Browsers

Mozilla Firefox 4 is ready to boost the future of internet with maximum security, so many in-built features, user-interface, and the browsing speed enhancement.

However, it has got a little problem, just like the other major Mozilla Firefox releases, this version also doesn’t supports the previous Add-Ons (Which are made for the earlier versions of Firefox).

Lets look into the matter, and make those old add-ons work again, in the same Firefox 4, without installing any more add-on in the firefox !

Write about:config to the Firefox Address Bar

• Click on button – I’ll be careful, I promise
• Perform write click (anywhere in the blank window screen) and choose New > Boolean.
• A pop-up box will be shown to write a preference name for new key. write extensions.checkCompatibility.4.0
• Set its value to false.

Now most of the old firefox add-ons will start working on your firefox 4 browser.

Enjoy !

Most of the times, we are searching for some particular information in a site itself, but not able to track that page. Hence, we try the site’s own search feature, but still don’t get that exactly. What to do then?

Well, now you can use search for a particular website, as well.

There are 3 methods to limit the search results to a particular site.

1. Enter the site’s Address URL in google search, and hit enter to get whether google provides a search box for that site or not,

If Google does that, then you can simply type your query in that search box, to search within that particular website. (This feature is available to a few websites – with high search volumes, not all)

2. Now if step 1 fails, you can force Google to search within the particular website, by its Advanced Search feature,

Enter your desired question in the search-box – all these words, as shown below,

Now scroll down a little, and enter the URL / name of that website in Search within a site or domain text-box,

Hit the Advanced Search button to get the search results from the entered website itself.

3. Though the above methods are also useful, but the best way to get search results from a particular website is to use a operator named site: within the search queries. Type your query as usual, add the site:MicroSoft.com thereafter, to get all the results from Microsoft.com website itself. Please note there is no space between website name and site: operator.

For example,

For your information, the search queries can also be used on Bing and Yahoo.

Enjoy!

While writing anything in the Mozilla Firefox address bar, it does a look-up for an accurate domain match and if something gets found, the website is opened accordingly. But if the word/sentence you’ve entered doesn’t match with any possible domain(s), then it displays Google Search Results against that particular keyword.

You know, you can also modify this default Firefox Address Bar Search Provider to Bing, Ask, or Yahoo or something else!

Here is the way to implement it,

• Go to the Firefox address bar
• Write about:config, and hit the Enter button
• Firefox will display a warning “You must know what you are doing before changing the advanced settings”. Click on the link saying I’ll be careful, I promise.
• Under the Settings (Filter text-field), type keyword.URL,
• Now perform a right click on its value, and hit on Modify

Now change the value as per the search provider (which you want to use)

For example,

• To use Bing, set it to https://www.bing.com/search?q=
• To use Ask, set it to https://www.ask.com/web?q=
• To use Google, set it to https://www.google.com/search?&q=
• To use Yahoo, set it to https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=

Most latest versions of Firefox (versions greater than 3.6) comes with the feature that their new tabs are opened in adjacent locations, just next to the present / working tab. And Similarly, when you hit on a link gets opened in its adjacent one.

But when we open some new tab by either visiting the File > New Tab or by hitting CTRL+T , then the new tabs gets appended at the right end side of the browser.

Well, this is a nice feature, because the adjacent related and working tabs improves our browsing experience. But if you want new tabs to be opened at the right-end corner as done by clicking the CTRL+T, you can do that as well. The procedure for implementing it is described below.

Go to the Firefox URL address bar, write about:config and hit the enter button. Please note this might void your firefox warranty. Now hit OK on button saying I’ll be careful, I promise.

Then visit to the Filter column text-box, and type browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent, press Enter.

Now change browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent value to false by double clicking on it. You can also toggle true or false by double-clicking the same.

Now exit from that tab, and you’re done with it. From now onwards, all new tabs will be opened at the right end side of your Mozilla Firefox Browser.

Enjoy.