The Firefox browser includes a Ctrl + R keyboard shortcut for the Reload button on the right of the address bar, but that’s about it. However, you can add a much wider variety of customizable reload hotkeys with the Reload P...
The Firefox findbar is a search tool that you can find keywords on pages with. Press Ctrl + F to open the findbar in Firefox. To customize the findbar, check out the FindBar Tweak add-on. Add the extension to Firefox from this pag...
Firefox doesn’t have any built-in options to change its menu, tab and address bar fonts with. However, there is a great Firefox add-on with which you can instantly select alternative fonts for the browser. With Theme Font an...
This article provides details on how you can can customize your existing Firefox New Tab page with New Tab Tools. However, with the Fast Dial extension for Firefox we can add a completely new, New Tab page to Firefox from scratch ...
This article covered how you can paste unformatted text into MS Word. However, not every word processor has a paste without formatting option. As such, consider adding the Copy Plain Text 2 extension to Firefox to copy text from w...
By default, almost all browsers store your downloads in a user profile Downloads folder. However, you can select alternative download folder locations via browser settings. This is how you can select alternative download folders i...
This article covered how you can get a Windows 8 Metro-like page for the Google Chrome browser. However, that extension is exclusively for Chrome. You can add a Windows 8 Metro homepage to all the foremost browsers with EIGHT. EIG...
Personas are skins that you can add to the Firefox browser. They add a wide range of alternative backgrounds to the Firefox tab bar, toolbar and status bar. For direct access to a multitude of Firefox personas, you should add the ...
A number of websites and blogs have text areas. These text areas are usually a little limited in size, and don’t include many options. However, you can edit website text areas with your word processor software instead. With ...
There are numerous software packages, and websites, that include Easter eggs. No, those aren’t sumptuous chocolate eggs; but are secret responses that occur to undocumented series of commands. For example, open this post for...
Websites may, or might not, include alternative colors for page links on the site that you’ve previously opened with your browser. Certainly, there are plenty of websites that don’t include alternative colors to highli...
The Alt + Tab switcher in Windows switches between minimized windows. You can add a comparable Ctrl + Tab switcher to Firefox that opens a dialog box from which you can switch between page tabs. All that’s required is the Ta...
Browses such as Google Chrome and Opera have merged search boxes into their address bars. Yet Firefox is a browser that keeps its address bar and search box separate. However, with the Foobar extension we can merge the Firefox add...
The Opera browser includes a great statusbar at the bottom of its window that shows loading speed, page load percentage and no of images in page details. Although that is something Firefox lacks, you can still add a comparable, an...
When you open lots of Firefox page tabs, the tabs resize to fit within the window. The page tabs shrink, which can erase their text. To enhance tab management, look no further than the Firefox Showcase extension. Firefox Showcase ...
