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Table of Content
[#=begin]Beginner Introduction[/#]
[#=advance]Advance Tricks and Tweak[/#]
[#=exten]Extension[/#]
[#=theme]Theme[/#]
[#=prob]Problem[/#]

Beginner


Where you can get Firefox
http://www.getfirefox.com
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Direct link to Firefox release
Direct Installer Link (http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%201.0.exe)
Direct Zip Link (http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%201.0.zip)

Reasons WHY you should switch to Firefox
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/why/

Other Guide:
http://www.scotsnewsletter.com/best_of/firefox.htm
http://windowssecrets.com/041202/#top1

Plugins:
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows.html
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/ (searches plugin)

Macromedia Flash Player 7.0
http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer

Macromedia Shockwave Player
http://sdc.shockwave.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi

Quicktime 6.5
Online Installer:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
Offline Installer:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone/

Java 1.5.0
xpi installation:
http://java.com/en/download/windows_xpi.jsp
online installer:
http://java.sun.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=9724
offline installer:
http://java.sun.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=9723

Adobe Reader 7.0
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Plugin Info:
To find out what plugins you have installed
about:plugins at the URL bar

Cache Info:
View your cache
about:cache

Import/Export Bookmark
Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks
File -> Import
File -> Export

Options:
Everything begins with Tools -> Options
General section
You can set your startup page
You can set your language of preference. Webpage with multiple language will check your preference before displaying
You can set your default browser to Firefox

Privacy section
History memorize the website you visited. This includes history sidebar, pull down URL, and back and forward history. So if you press clear it will clear everything including your back and forward history.
Save Form Information and Save Password speak for themself
Cookie - Check for originating web site only and accept for current session only. Gives you more cookie privacy.
Cache you can set your HD cache size and clean it out
Use Clear All when cops are knocking on your door or if you don't want your family member find out what you have been up to.

Web Features
This is where you config ad, image, popup, and javascript block.

Downloads
Change whether you want to default to save to desktop, certain folder or ask you everytime where you want to save.
You can also setup up how to auto handle files with certain extensions

Advanced
You can disable resize image to fit browser.
This is also the place you setup how you want tab browsing behave. Open new window in new tab.

Quick Keys:
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard.html
Ctrl+T Opens New Tab
Ctrl+N Opens New Windows
Ctrl+B Show/Hide bookmark sidebar
Ctrl+H History sidebar
Ctrl+J Download Manager
Ctrl+U Page Source
Ctrl+I Page Info. Useful to find those media files and find out other misc information
Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+Page Down Next Tab
Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+Page Up Previous Tab
Ctrl+K Jump to your search bar
Ctrl+L or F6 Jump to location bar
Ctrl+F5 or Ctrl+Shift+R Reload the webpage
F5 or Ctrl+R Refresh
F11 Full screen
Ctrl+[1..9] Select tab 1 through 9
Ctrl+Left Click or Middle Click Open link in new tab
Middle Click on tab Close tab
Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4 Close tab
Shift+scroll middle mouse down Back
Shift+croll middle mouse up Forward

Ctrl-Enter
At the URL bar you type google and ctrl-enter and it will automatically fill it as http://www.google.com
Shift-Enter
At the URL bar you type slickdeals and shift-enter and it will automatically fill it as http://www.slickdeals.net
Alt-Enter
After you type the URL at the URL bar and press Alt-Enter it will open in new tab of current URL.

Neat things you can do with firefox
Multiple Home Page
You can have multiple start page open when you start firefox
Tools->Options->General->Homepage->Use Bookmark
OR
<url>|<url>

Open Multiple Bookmark
Right click your bookmark folder and right click open in tabs and wala you have all of them open

Bookmark Keyword
Right click bookmark and create keyword and now when ever you type the keyword in Navigation URL bar it will jump to that bookmark. This allows you to overwrite search google.

Create RSS Feed Live Bookmark
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/live-bookmarks.html
Automatically
Click on orange wave icon http://www.mozilla.org/images/screen-firefox-rss-icon.png and surscribe
Manually
Bookmarks->Mange Booksmarks->File->New Live Bookmarks
Point it to the RSS feed.

Copy Image to Clipboard
Right click on an image and select Copy Image will store the image in clipboard

Advance

Optimized Firefox Build
M1
M1 builds are generally optimized builds that also contain code optimized for the MMX instruction set. M1 builds are targeted for the following processors:
AMD Athlon
AMD K6-2
Intel Pentium 2
Intel Pentium Pro
Intel Pentium
http://www.moox.ws/files/mozilla/firefox/releases/MozillaFirefox_1_0_RELEASE_M1.exe

M2
M2 builds are highly optimized builds that also contain code optimized for the SSE instruction set. Given the nature M2 builds, they are designed only for the following processors that support SSE:
AMD Athlon XP
AMD Athlon MP
AMD Sempron (2200+ - 2800+)
AMD Duron (1.0GHz - 1.8GHz)
Intel Pentium 3
Intel Celeron (533MHz - 1.4GHz)
http://www.moox.ws/files/mozilla/firefox/releases/MozillaFirefox_1_0_RELEASE_M2.exe

M3
M3 builds are highly optimized builds that also contain code optimized for the SSE2 instruction set. Given the nature of M3 builds, they are designed only for the following processors:
AMD Opteron
AMD Athlon FX
AMD Athlon 64
AMD Sempron (3100+)
Intel Xeon
Intel Pentium M
Intel Pentium 4
Intel Celeron D
Intel Celeron (1.7GHz - 2.8GHz)
http://www.moox.ws/files/mozilla/firefox/releases/MozillaFirefox_1_0_RELEASE_M3.exe

Add additional search engine
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/central.html#central-engines

Advance config your Firefox
For more advance user
about:config gives you more option to play with.
For those who likes to speed tweak
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#oth_rendering
Enable piping as well
http://www.tweakfactor.com/articles/tweaks/firefoxtweak/4.html

For those who say the browser is using too much memory.
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#oth_memcache
Limit your memory cache usage.

This one is for yeswarchief.
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#lay_blink
Disable blinking text

Extension

Get Extensions:
http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/
http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/
http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/

How to get your old extension to work with new firefox
1) Download the extension file
2) Rename the file extension from xpi to zip.
3) Open the zip file
4) Open install.rdf
5) Change Maxversion to 1.0 (or higher)
6) Rename zip back to xpi
7) Drag xpi to your firefox.

Extension:
Googlebar
http://googlebar.mozdev.org/

Google Pagerank
http://www.tapouillo.com/firefox_extension/

Adblock
Additional spam block power
http://adblock.mozdev.org/
Direct xpi Link (http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/extensions/adblock/adblock-0.5.2.039-fx.xpi)
adblock import list (http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock/)

NukeAnything
Neat extension that allows you to right click on any frame in a website and kill that frame temporarily (returns to normal with refresh). Nice to have on sites that have annoying flash ads, but you don't want to kill the adserver -The Raddish
http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#nukeanything
http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/
Direct xpi Link (http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/nukeanything.xpi)

Single Window
Traps links that would normally open in a new window
http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=50

Session Saver
Remembers loaded tabs and their history items when Firefox is manually closed, then restores the tabs and history items when next started
http://www.pikey.me.uk/mozilla/?extension=ss

Compact Menu
http://cdn.mozdev.org/compact/

Download Manager
Gives you additional feature over Download Manager
http://dmextension.mozdev.org/

Download Sort
Sort Download base on file extension
http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/downsort/

Backup Bookmark
Bookmark is your life
http://www.pikey.me.uk/mozilla/

OpenBook
You get to see bookmark tree in add bookmark
http://www.chuonthis.com/extensions/openbook.php

Sort Bookmark
http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=51

Flat Bookmark Editing
Makes it easier to edit multiple bookmark
http://bluweb.com/us/chouser/proj/mozhack/

TabScroller
Useful if you have a lot of tabs. You can scroll through your tab with right click and scroll wheel.
http://www.krickelkrackel.de/tabscroller/tabscroller.htm

Dictionary Search
neat little tool that lets you right click on any word and look it up with your dictionary site of choice. -The Raddish
http://dictionarysearch.mozdev.org/

ReloadEvery
Slickdealer/E-mail/Ebay people might like this one. Reload the page every few sec/mins
http://reloadevery.mozdev.org/

User Agent Switcher
Spoof as other type browser. Useful if you run to site that only gives IE better viewing or only allows IE to view even though it would work in other browser.
http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=59

Duplicate Tab and Clone Window
For those who use IE and must have clone window with history
http://www.pikey.me.uk/mozilla/?extension=cw
http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=28

IE View
For Microsoft code only website
http://ieview.mozdev.org/

DeskCut
Ability to create webpage shortcut on Desktop
http://deskcut.mozdev.org/index.html

AutoForm
The form data will be saved into the preferences to its context, which is calculated on the base URI, the form name and and a hash value over all form elements. So every page should have it's unique key where the values are stored.
http://autoform.mozdev.org/

Magpie
Useful for those who view image site that require incremental image file name. It allows you to use shortcut key to browse images
http://www.bengoodger.com/software/tabloader/

All in One Gesture
This one is for Opera user who like to use mouse gesture to navigate
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/marc.boullet/ext/extensions-en.html

X
Quickly clear privacy sensitive data, specifically: history, form info, saved passwords, download history, cookies, and the cache
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/x

theme

***RESERVE***

Problems

Problem:
Your firefox froze and when you rerun it and it ask you to create new profile.
Do not create one. Just go to task manger and force kill firefox.exe

If you accidentally create a new profile and want to get your old profile back, here is how.
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/images/profilemanager3.png
1. Close Firefox completely (select File > Exit from the main menu of Firefox).
2. Select Start > Run... from the Windows Start menu.
3. Enter firefox.exe -profilemanager and press OK
4. Pick your original profile.
5. Make sure it is the correct one then repeat step 1-3 delete the 'new' profile that you don't want, BE VERY SURE it's the RIGHT ONE

Detail Firefox profile Info Here (http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile)

If you run into firefox problem and can't be fix with uninstall/reinstall. It's probably cause by corrupt profile.
Here is what you do to fresh install Firefox

Before you do anything turn on show hidden files and folders or else you won't be able to see anything
0. Explorer -> Folder Options -> View -> Hiden files and folders -> Show hidden files and folders

Profile Location
For WinNT/2k/XP:
<drive letter>:\documents and settings\<user name>\Application Data\<Firebird or Mozilla\Firefox>\<random generated>
For Win9X:
<Drive Letter>:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\<Profile name>\
Backup you profile, most likely just bookmark. Copy bookmark to another directory and then copy it back after fresh install.
Delete your profile
Reinstall Firefox
This will solve 99.9% of your problem.

Extension
Run your firefox in Safe Mode.
If you don't have Safe Mode shortcut just add -safe-mode flag at the end, firefox.exe -safe-mode
When started in Safe Mode all extensions are disabled and the Default theme is used. Disable the Extension/Theme that is causing trouble and then start normally.

Finding help:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/
http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

Flash:
Flash Uninstaller
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flash/ts/flash7/uninstall_flash_player.exe

Java:
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/images/faq.pngJava Runtime Environment 5.0 (1.5.0) fixes many problems users are having with Java. Updating to it is highly recommended. Select "Windows Offline Installation, Multi-language" on the download page.

nice...thanks for the info...Firefox is an awesome app...

...I noticed that someone has the firefox logo as their avatar too...rock on...

question about adblock. for school we use a program called webct where it shows us equations. adblock puts the little box saying i can block it like it does for banner ads. how can i get rid of the box temporarily?

The only way I know you can do this is to go to tools --> adblock --> preferences, and uncheck the 'Enable Adblcok' radio button. This does turn off all adblock functionality, however. I use WebCT also for school, and I don't turn off adblock. Why do you need to hide the adblock tab?

The only way I know you can do this is to go to tools --> adblock --> preferences, and uncheck the 'Enable Adblcok' radio button. This does turn off all adblock functionality, however. I use WebCT also for school, and I don't turn off adblock. Why do you need to hide the adblock tab?

wow, missed this awhile ago. the adblock image covers something important (equation i think) occasionally. that's the only reason i'd want to get rid of it.

Is there a way to print a highlighted portion of a website as in IE? I miss that feature.

How do I get firefox to clear out the auto-complete? For instance, I type in a Card # or zip that I will only use once and now it appears every time I start entering a different number or username or zip or whatever. If I could just eliminate select ones, that would be even better (wishful thinking, I know).

TYIA

Edit: Think I found the solution in the Google history thread with Drio's response. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

great maan . Thanks a lot for the info

Just to let you know about the new firefox extensions if anyone is interested.
Click here (https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/?application={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}) and scroll down

List of new extensions
1. SwiftTabs 0.2.4, April 16, 2005
Move to the next tab or the previous tab with a key.
2. LiveLines 0.4.2, April 16, 2005
Add RSS feeds to Bloglines or Sage, and Habari Xenu with the RSS icon on the status bar.
3. ChatZilla 0.9.68a, April 16, 2005
A simple, straightforward Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.
4. ChatZilla 0.9.68, April 16, 2005
A simple, straightforward Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.
5. infoRSS 0.8.7, April 16, 2005
Displays RSS, Atom, HTML and NNTP feed in the Firefox status bar. Compatible with podcasting RSS
6. NewsIt ! 0.1, April 16, 2005
NewsIt. Let you post Links on the News-Spider Site newsempire.x2.nu
7. TargetKiller 0.1, April 16, 2005
TargetKiller is a small extension for the Firefox Web browser. The extension removes the target attribute from links on the fly. You can specify which target attributes should get removed. By default, it removes all target attributes that are equal to _blank or _new.
8. MediaPlayerConnectivity 0.2.3, April 16, 2005
Allow you to launch embed video of website in an external application with a simple click * Replace the stream by a simple button * Works with RealMedia, QuickTime and WindowsMedia streams * Allow the use of any capable media player * Support Media Metafiles (ram, rpm, wmv, wm, wma, asx, asf, ...) * Activable per media format * Support PLAYLIST (MP3) * AutoPlay feature : automaticatlly start to play the first media * Windows / Linux / OSX Languages : US, FR, GR, IT
9. SearchWP 0.4.2, April 16, 2005
With SearchWP it's easier to find words typed in the searchbar. This extension adds a dynamic toolbar that contains one button for each words of the searchbar. Also, you can highlight those words easily.
10. BBCodeXtra 0.2.2, April 16, 2005
BBCodeXtra is an extension, compatible with Mozilla FireFox and Mozilla Suite, which adds to the context menu new commands to insert BBCode/Html/XHtml codes in an easy and fast way. BBCodeXtra suits well with all forum types, for example: * phpBB * Invision * VBullettin This extension can really simplify your life with all forums that use BBCode or Html codes when posting new messages.

very nice article, hopefully more people will start using Firefox.
For themes, My personal favorite is:

Noia 2.0 (eXtreme) 2.82
By Kongkeat Kuatrakool released on March 05, 2005
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/themes/moreinfo.php?id=72

Is there a way to print a highlighted portion of a website as in IE? I miss that feature.
You can use NukeAnything and nuke everything you don't want to print.

Two things I haven't been able to figure out:

1) In the quicklinks for your bookmarks, how can you change the icon associated with the link (you know, the favicon)? There's no option to do this.

2) I STILL can't figure out how the "flexible space" works in adding it to your toolbar. To get a bigger space, I keep adding the standard spaces. Adding the flex space just gives me a single line that I can't do anything with.

Any help is appreciated. :) TIA

1) In the quicklinks for your bookmarks, how can you change the icon associated with the link (you know, the favicon)? There's no option to do this.
The icons come from the site that you have bookmarked. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but they are culled from the site when you visit it, and then stored in a file in your profile.

2) I STILL can't figure out how the "flexible space" works in adding it to your toolbar. To get a bigger space, I keep adding the standard spaces. Adding the flex space just gives me a single line that I can't do anything with.
The flexible space is used to separate elements from each side of the screen. An example of flexible space is the space between the word "Help" and the Firefox homepage notifier on the right side of the menu-bar. You can't 'set' the flexible space. As you add more elements on one side or the other, the flexible space changes in size.

Hope that helps.

You're right. The favicons come from the site, if there is one, and show up next to the link. However, IE allows you to set this icon, regardless of whether or not the site came with one default. Not all of the links come with one so there's this icon of a blank sheet of paper and I thought I could set it up myself. From all the options I've played with, I don't think this can be done, yet.

The flexible space is still confusing to me, I guess. I don't see the point of using it instead of the standard space if you can't set it. I *think I understand that it would take up all the space in between two elements if there was empty space but I was hoping I could adjust the length of my location and google bar with it. It's ok, though, no biggie.

Thanks for the help!

Is there a way in Firefox to view the “bookmark toolbar folder” in two rows (or more)(I’m talking about the bar right under the address bar)? I have too many shortcuts; they don’t fit in the bookmark toolbar display.
Thanks.

To change these settings, type "about:config" in the address field, press Enter



*Dialup*

Set the value of network.http.max-connections-per-server to "8".
Set the value of network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy to "8".
Set the value of network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server to "4".
Set the value of dom.disable_window_status_change to "true".


*Cable-DSL*

Set the value of network.http.max-connections to "48".
Set the value of network.http.max-connections-per-server to "16".
Set the value of network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy to "16"
Set the value of network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server to "8"


Firefox being a memory hog then stop it by doing this.

Set the value of browser.cache.memory.capacity to "32768".

i love firefox. Since i have changed over 2 years ago, the iterent has been a new exsperience.

OK all you firefox fans answer me some questions. At this point Firefox kinda seems like Linux, might do some great stuff but I don't feel like dealing with troublesome and seemingly endless tinkering.

I've run Slimbrowser for some time now and like some of the features but can't seem to get the same features in Firefox.
In Slim:
If I click on a link which is coded to open in a new window it opens in a new tab, very handy to switch between multiple web sites.
If I enter an address in the address bar it again opens in new tab and handy, I'd rather close the old tab after if I don't need it than to open new tab or window beforehand.

In Firefox I can't seem to get either behavior. I've selected from Tools...options...advanced:
Open links from other applications in: a new tab in the most recent window.
Select new tabs opened from links.
Select new tabs opened from bookmarks or history.

Is the desired Slimbrowser behavior possible in Firefox?

I wouldn't even care except Slim is screwing up real regularly now. I use to love it.

Thanks for any helpful input.

Your guide helped me with my account junk. Rep point for you! :woot:

Thanks for this great guide! For some reason, I can't get Ctrl+Enter to open a new tab for me in Firefox 1.0.6 when I manually type a Web site address in the URL. I even downloaded this tab extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&category=Popular&numpg=10&id=158). But Ctrl+Enter works just fine in Mozilla 1.0.5. :confused:

The silver skin theme is pretty slick. :cool:

You're right. The favicons come from the site, if there is one, and show up next to the link. However, IE allows you to set this icon, regardless of whether or not the site came with one default. Not all of the links come with one so there's this icon of a blank sheet of paper and I thought I could set it up myself. From all the options I've played with, I don't think this can be done, yet.


Get the extension Favicon Picker.
http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=617

prichard.... to open a link in a new tab instead of a new window, middle-click on it

By default, when I click on a link from Thunderbird, it opens it in a new tab on my Firefox window. That works fine. But sometimes, I'd like to open the link on the same tab on the Firefox window. Is there a button I can press on the keyboard while clicking on the link so that the current window and tab will be used to open the link (while letting the default mouse click open a new tab)? TIA.

M3
[size=1]M3 builds are highly optimized builds that also contain code optimized for the SSE2 instruction set. Given the nature of M3 builds, they are designed only for the following processors:


Thanks! Right now I have FF 1.0.7. Do I need to uninstall it first before installing an M3 build?

Geeke19, thanks for the tip this increased my internet browsing speed, i also upgraded to 1.5 beta and most themes do not work on it, anyway, i am not going back to the other, so does anyone know any good themes that work w/ 1.5 beta 1?

I installed FireFTP (http://fireftp.mozdev.org/) FTP client for Firefox. So far, so good!

Happy birthday, Firefox! (http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2005-11-9.html)

Mozilla's innovative Web browser celebrates its one-year anniversary today

...

Grease Monkey allows a user to customize webpages according to what is available, and what one's programming skills might be. Several examples are, right clicking on a message in GMail will pop up a preview of the message, removing ads from many websites, extra links, removing timelimit in rapidshare, plus thosands more.

Get it at http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
scripts can be found at: http://userscripts.org/ and http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts
more scripts can be found from searching google!

Firefox 1.5 is now officially released! (http://www.mozilla.com/) :woot:

Check out what's new (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.html) in ver. 1.5.

Firefox 1.5 is the next version of our award-winning Web browser.

Here's what's new in Firefox 1.5:

* Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
* Faster browser navigation with improvements to back and forward button performance.
* Drag and drop reordering for browser tabs.
* Improvements to popup blocking.
* Clear Private Data feature provides an easy way to quickly remove personal data through a menu item or keyboard shortcut.
* Answers.com is added to the search engine list.
* Improvements to product usability including descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, RSS discovery, and "Safe Mode" experience.
* Better accessibility including support for DHTML accessibility and assistive technologies such as the Window-Eyes 5.5 beta screen reader for Microsoft Windows. Screen readers read aloud all available information in applications and documents or show the information on a Braille display, enabling blind and visually impaired users to use equivalent software functionality as their sighted peers.
* Report a broken Web site wizard to report Web sites that are not working in Firefox.
* Better support for Mac OS X (10.2 and greater) including profile migration from Safari and Mac Internet Explorer.
* New support for Web Standards including SVG, CSS 2 and CSS 3, and JavaScript 1.6.
* Many security enhancements.

The Burning Edge has more detailed lists of new features and notable bug fixes.

I'm contemplating getting it now vs. getting it after a patch update (i.e. ver. 1.5.1 or whatever it would be called).

just downloaded and installed. the only problem so far is my theme isn't compatible yet, and the dev won't have even an alpha version for a few days.

what themes are you using?

Yeah, I hope the extensions catch up w/ ver. 1.5 soon. I'm using Silver Skin 2.6.3 for Firefox 1.0.7. I can wait a month for a patched 1.5 (1.5.1?) and more theme and extension support. Also, Thunderbird 1.5 should be out soon since it's in RC state. Maybe I should start the new year off w/ 1.5 for each. :cool:

I just upgraded my FF from 1.0.7 to 1.5. I downloaded the setup file and installed it "on top" of the old FF in the C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox directory. Everything went well. I was notified that a couple of my extensions and themes would not work w/ 1.5, but luckily, the important ones had updates available that are compatible w/ FF 1.5.

So far so good, but I haven't noticed much difference in terms of the user interface between the 2 FFs. However, the Tools > Options stuff is quite different. Now I can't wait until Thunderbird 1.5 is officially released. It's currently at RC2 state.

portable firefox 1.5 (http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/browsers/portable_firefox)

portable thunderbird (http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/email/portable_thunderbird)

Many More Free Portable Apps Here (http://portableapps.com/)

Hey Geeke19, have you found the portable FF to actually be very useful? I somewhat understand its purpose but it seems a bit early for actual use.

I had Adblock 0.5.2.039 for FF 1.0.7 and when I upgraded to FF 1.5, it didn't tell me there'd be any incompatibility. But Adblock wasn't working w/ the new FF. :mad:

So I went to Mozilla's site and found out that Adblock has been updated to ver. 0.5.2.056 (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=10&application=firefox). So I uninstalled Adblock, restarted FF, installed Adblock, restarted FF, and now it seems to be working fine. :)

I might now look into getting a filter instead of manually updating Adblock. Since I uninstalled Adblock, I lost my custom settings, so I might as well look into an Adblock filter.

Edit: I take that back! Even though I uninstalled Adblock and installed the newer Adblock, it kept my previously blocked filters. :) On a related note, Tools > Extensions > Adblock Options indicates v0.5.2.055 instead of 056. :confused:

Mozilla's Thunderbird 1.5 has officially been released (http://www.mozilla.com/press/mozilla-2006-01-12.html). :cool:

How to deal with the memory leak? It's eating up over 100mb of my memory. I tried the set memory capacity thing but it doesn't seem to work. Could it be my pentium 2 processor?

How to deal with the memory leak? It's eating up over 100mb of my memory. I tried the set memory capacity thing but it doesn't seem to work. Could it be my pentium 2 processor?
FF? Mine with plenty of extensions, especially Sessionsaver has been known to use 80-120MB, so it might not be a memory leak, just depends on the number of windows open and other things.

I successfully upgraded Mozilla Thunderbird from 1.0.7 to 1.5. So far, so good! All of my themes and extensions had updates available, so I didn't encounter any problems. The look-and-feel of 1.5 is very similar to 1.0.7, but I know there are quite a few behind-the-scenes changes. One obvious noticeable improvement is that when you compose a new e-mail, all misspelled words are immediately highlighted w/ a red underline, kind of like in MS Word, so that you know your typos before you run spell check.

FYI, Mozilla has released Firefox 1.5.0.1. Here's (http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.5.0.1.html) the release notes on it. I don't like how they made the version 4 digits long. :shake: FF automatically installed the updates and the next time I reboot my browser, it should be patched up.

On an unrelated note, but related to Web browsers in general, CNet conducted a review (http://reviews.cnet.com/Internet_Explorer_7_for_XP_SP2_Beta_2/4505-3514_7-31454661.html?tag=nl.e501) of MS Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP SP2 Beta 2 (say that 5 times fast!).

Been using 1.5.0.1 beta for a while. It's mainly Mac fix.

Crap! googlebar (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=33&application=firefox) is not compatible with FF 1.5.0.1 and no updates are available (as of yet). :mad:

This one is: http://toolbar.google.com/firefox/index.html

This one is: http://toolbar.google.com/firefox/index.html
Thanks for the link. I wonder how Google's toolbar compares to the one on Mozilla's site that works for FF 1.5 (but not 1.5.0.1). :confused:

The paranoid part of me thinks Google's version would be bogged down w/ corporate/advertising crap (as subtle as they may be), now that they're a public company.

According to this article (http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6047610.html), Firefox 2 will be released 3rd quarter of 2006!!

Firefox 1.5.0.2 is now available (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/). The release notes (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.2.html) are as follows. My FF 1.5.0.1 provided me with the update a couple days ago and the upgrade went well. Of course, I had to restart the browser.

Mozilla released ver. 1.5.0.4 for both Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/) and Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/).

These are the security fixes (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html) for both applications.

http://lesliefranke.com/files/reference/firefoxcheatsheet.html

Good link, Geeke19. Thanks. Here's (http://www.download.com/Best-Firefox-extensions-Volume-III/1200-11745_4-5162308.html) download.com's Best Firefox extensions Volume III.

Here's (http://www.download.com/Best-Firefox-extensions/1200-11745_4-5154257.html) Volume I and here's (http://www.download.com/Best-Firefox-extensions-Volume-II/1200-11745_4-5157022.html) Volume II.

Firefox 1.5.0.5 and Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 are scheduled to be released (http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=11210) in 10-12 days.

Firefox 2 Beta (Bon Echo) has been released to the public. Here's (http://reviews.cnet.com/Firefox_2_Bon_Echo_Beta_1/4505-9241_7-31972968.html) CNet's review of it.

The only way I know you can do this is to go to tools --> adblock --> preferences, and uncheck the 'Enable Adblcok' radio button. This does turn off all adblock functionality, however. I use WebCT also for school, and I don't turn off adblock. Why do you need to hide the adblock tab?
Not true, you can whitelist the page. Right-click the adblock button on the the bottom right of your browser then on the top right you can press whitelist (either that page only or the whole site).

Not true, you can whitelist the page. Right-click the adblock button on the the bottom right of your browser then on the top right you can press whitelist (either that page only or the whole site).

Look at the date of the post, this was way before the whitelisting option was available.

Microsoft reaches out to Firefox developers (http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-6108221.html), according to that ZDNet article. If I was very paranoid, I'd say this reeks of some sort of "trap" by Microsoft or at least a public relations stunt.

... The head of Microsoft's open-source business has offered to help get Firefox to work with Windows Vista, but it remains to be seen whether Mozilla and the open-source community will respond positively. ...

I received notification from Mozilla that both FF and TB were ready to be updated:

Firefox 1.5.0.7 (http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=20067)
Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=20068)

Is there any way to get the Cut, Copy & Paste to appear when you right click when using Firefox? This is by far my biggest complaint about FF.

Is there any way to get the Cut, Copy & Paste to appear when you right click when using Firefox? This is by far my biggest complaint about FF.
I don't think I fully understand your question. If I highlight text on a Web page with FF (left click), I do see the options to Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete when I right click over that highlighted text.

The Firefox guide should be updated to reflect Mozilla Firefox 2 (http://www.getfirefox.com).

I'm looking for an extenstion to reorganize website info and search it , organize it any way I like. I downloaded bumble search but it doesn't seem to do anything, at all.

Any suggestions?

Top 10 list of Top 10 Firefox add-on lists (http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9662350-2.html)


A lot of us want to live in Firefox 2. But we also want to bend it to our will, to customize it so it's just right. Our visions of the ideal Firefox are different, though. The Web surfer will want one thing, for example, and the programmer another. So check out this Official Webware Firefox Top 10 List. Not of extensions. Of other lists.

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How to get your old extension to work with new firefox
1) Download the extension file
2) Rename the file extension from xpi to zip.
3) Open the zip file
4) Open install.rdf
5) Change Maxversion to 1.0 (or higher)
6) Rename zip back to xpi
7) Drag xpi to your firefox.

That's useful to know, considering some old extensions may only be inhibited from current versions because they're untested. But what if an old extension is restricted to old versions for a good reason, and it causes FF to fail? Is there a cleanup process that is guaranteed to restore FF to its original state?

I've been stuck on an old version of FF, because the later versions cannot generate MAFF files. Has anyone tried the above strategy to install the MAFF extension?