Various Firefox customisations are necessary in these days of oversimplification. Search In order to keep the old Firefox search settings instead of the new ones that conceal what search engine you are using until you hit return, you need to go into about:config and look for: browser.search.showOneOffButtons Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be working forContinue reading “Firefox tinkerings”
Tag Archives: Firefox
Yay! Greasemonkey’s back
I’ve been without the invaluable Greasemonkey for about three weeks and have finally had time to sit down and work through it methodically. All the solutions proposed to create new profiles etc. did not work for me. The only thing that did in the end was remove extensions one by one, restarting each time andContinue reading “Yay! Greasemonkey’s back”
Dark is the new light
In common with most things professional these days on confusers, taking your interface colours down a notch proves restful for the eyes when staring at a screen for megahours as is common. I recently installed a new theme on Fx called PitchDark, which darkens all the surrounds to my actual web browsing nicely, but IContinue reading “Dark is the new light”
Quick Fx tip
To allow you to use Alt S to submit posts in a variety of forum software and to save elsewhere in Firefox you might need to change this: ui.key.contentAccess in Firefox’s config. To do so type about:config in the location bar and click to continue. Then enter the above into the filter field and changeContinue reading “Quick Fx tip”
Nice Fx extension: Auto Context
Found an extremely nifty extension for Firefox this evening, Auto Context. It watches for when you select some text and then pops up a menu offering you choices, like so: This is very handy for when you want to just copy text off a page without getting all the HTML so that your word processorContinue reading “Nice Fx extension: Auto Context”