Useful Firefox extensions for being a support guru!
lori - Times page loads (has a bug with timing of new tabs though).
mozex - Allows you to use external applications (like gvim) for editing text areas among other things...
http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org
Use with AllowPasswordRemembering.user.js to allow firefox to remember the passwords (Always check the source before installing any grease monkey script). Barracuda is gay and needs a special script...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3036 SEO Quake is a great SEO tool to get quick/relevant results
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/ (Use with a strong PIN)
How awesome is firefox: http://splasho.com/blog/2006/02/26/the-superbrowser/
Search engine keywords
Firefox has a cool feature that allows you to select a search engine by typing a keyword followed by the search string in the location bar. To activate simply add the URL to your bookmarks and specify the keyword you wish to use under the bookmark properties. Some useful bookmarks that we use at Anchor are:
Keyword |
Notes |
URL |
g |
||
w |
Wikipedia |
|
dict |
Dictionary search |
You will also need to have keyword.enabled set to true under about:config.
Under about:config, set keyword.URL to http://www.google.com.au/search?btnG=Google+Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
If you press Alt-enter, the link will open up in a new tab.
Search engine plugins
HTML(<script type="text/javascript" src="/wiki/common/js/searchengine.js"></script>)
Hint: Press Ctrl-K to give focus to the search input. Press Ctrl-Up or Ctrl-Down to change search engine used. Alt-Enter will load the results page in a new tab!
Development
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/966/ - tamperdata ([http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2006/10/17/graph check out this graph of a yahoo.com page load])
Fun stuff
Hints
Boost download speed by going to about:config and setting network.http.pipelining to true.
Prevent information leakage by changing network.http.sendRefererHeader to 0.
- Ergh. This breaks ANZ Internet banking.
- If you want to open a bunch of webpages at the same time from your bookmarks (akin to the pipe-separated thing you can do for your homepage) put all the sites in bookmarks in a folder. Then middle-click the folder to open all the bookmarks in it.
By default it will replace all open tabs. If you want it to add to the existing open tabs, change the internal setting browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace