My AdblockPlus Filterset
Filterset.N :-)
June 08, 2006
September 06, 2005
Firefox Tip 4: Handling file uris
I read this somwhere recently, and its immensely useful in a corporate environment.
If you want firefox to be able to load uris that look like file://...
- Open about:config
- set security.checkloaduri to false
Not sure if doing so makes firefox vulnerable.. so proceed at your own risk!
Update: Use the new prefs to enable this on a per-site-basis.
- Open about:config
- Add these prefs:
- capability.policy.policynames = localfilelinks
- capability.policy.default.checkloaduri = noAccess
- capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites = http://intraneturl
- capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri = allAccess
December 22, 2004
Firefox Tip 3: Useful Bookmarklets
Jesse Ruderman has an awesome collection of javascript bookmarklets that can make your life easier.
Old-timers have probably already known of Form Bookmarklets, particularly one that allows firefox to save passwords on a page that instructs it not to. (removes 'autocomplete=off').
What I found today (via mozillazine forums), are the new Zap bookmarklets, that let you remove flash, color, images from a webpage and make it readable. Another one of note is one that forces line-wrap on webpages making forums readable.
Old-timers have probably already known of Form Bookmarklets, particularly one that allows firefox to save passwords on a page that instructs it not to. (removes 'autocomplete=off').
What I found today (via mozillazine forums), are the new Zap bookmarklets, that let you remove flash, color, images from a webpage and make it readable. Another one of note is one that forces line-wrap on webpages making forums readable.
November 11, 2004
Firefox Tip 2: Backup your profile
You should backup your profile folder before tweaking Firefox.
Your profile folder contains the following important files:
- bookmarks.html (Bookmars or Favorites)
- signons.txt and key3.db (Stored Passwords)
- cookies.txt and hostperm.1 (Stored Cookies)
- user.js and prefs.js (User preferences)
- formhistory.dat (autocomplete data)
November 10, 2004
Firefox Tip 1: Use extensions to enhance functionality
As promised , I'm going to add random firefox tips in no particular order to this blog.
Here's a screenshot showing the extensions I'm currently using:
Adblock is an extremely powerful, regular-expression based tool, that allows you to block anything: images, scripts, iframes and flash!
Chromedit makes it simple to alter your firefox config files, without having to find your profile directory, and/or having to use a text-editor.
Chatzilla is a functional IRC client for firefox. (I wish someone makes a similar FTP client extension)
Quicknote is a very useful, post-it type note editor.
QuickTabPrefToggle is a cute new extension from the author of quicknote, which provides a toolbar button to quickly switch from single-window mode to an alternate, and back. I frequent yahoo games, and this is indispensible!
More extensions are available at U.M.O.
October 31, 2004
Firefox Tip of the day series
I've always wanted to keep track of nice things about firefox that aren't mentioned on the official help pages, and my attempts at creating my version of Firefox resources have been slow at best, so I'm going to use this blog (with a new category) to add firefox tips, in no particular order.