You must have tired of copying the link from one page, opening another page/tab and pasting the link into the Browser URL to open the link, right? But, Firefox has now come with the add-on that can save your time and effort of doing this. You can just drag and open the link in another tab or you can save the image by just dragging it and placing it somewhere on the page.

Probably, one of the must have add-on for the Mozila Firefox, isn’t it? Yes, it actually is.
Quick Drag extends the functionality of the drag and drop mouse gesture, in order to use it to load the URLs. It can perform a web search of the selected text in a page or it can help you to save an image from the page. This add-on is compatible with Firefox as well as with Seamonkey.

You can say that, Quick Drag is a successor of the SuperDragAndGo. This add-on is providing the same functionality with the small footprint. Please find the general information at http://code.kliu.org/quickdrag/ and FAQ at http://code.kliu.org/quickdrag/faq.html.

Tricks & Tips:

1.    There is an add-on setting if you want to use the behavior of old Quick and Drag functionality to opening a link in a new tab rather than searching for it.

2.    There is an option of opening an image in new tab, if you don’t want to save them. You just need to hold Ctrl [Control] button while dragging the image.

3.    If you will hold Alt [Alter] button while dragging a URL, you will be able to save a tab rather than opening it in a new tab.

4.    If you will hold [Shift] button at the time of dragging and dropping, you will be able to reverse the
background/foreground tab behavior of the drag. (i.e. if your setting will be opening it in a background tab, this will open it in the foreground tab).

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Support

You can get the support for this add-on from the developers at http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=644971 or by sending an e-mail to kliu@code.kliu.org

The Mozilla keeps coming with the new add-ons which generally become helpful to all the users in one or the other way. This time they have come with the add-on which is a must for each and every user of the Mozila Firefox who are using the websites like Rapidshare.com and many of them.

In order to skip the unnecessary pages on the websites like Megaupload, Rapidshare, Mediafire, zShare and many other websites, Mozila has introduced an add-on which does this job for you.

Skip-screen is an add-on which is persistently maintained and it is improving day by day. While clicking through the advertisement laden pages or while waiting for the countdowns, Skip-screen can be there to make your life comfortable. Skip-screen itself clicks through the loops to access the content which you are actually looking for.

Skip-screen comes with some of the most popular sites, where you need to go through add-laden pages and countdowns and you can be annoyed by the delay created. But, there is a facility where you can submit more websites to Skip-screen, which you can think are doing the same thing and they can add the support for those sites in the Skip-screen.

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so your firefox is running Slow ? you can now make it fast some just doing some tweaks

Reduce the amount of RAM Firefox uses for it’s cache feature

Try this:1) Type “about:config” (no quotes) in the address bar in the browser.
2) Find “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers”
3) Set it’s value to “0“;(Zero)

Increase the Speed in Which Firefox loads pages

1) Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit Enter. (Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.)2) Alter the entries as follows:
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 10.

This means it will make 10 requests at once.

3) Lastly, right-click anywhere and select New->Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0“;.(Zero)

This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages faster now.

Optionally (for even faster web browsing) here are some more options for your about:config (you might have to create some of these entries by Right Click –> New– >Interger or String

“network.dns.disableIPv6”: set “false”
“content.notify.backoffcount”: set “5”; (Five)
“ui.submenuDelay”: set “0”; (Zero)

Reduce RAM usage to 10mb when Firefox is minimized

This little hack will drop Firefox’s RAM usage down to 10 Mb when minimized:1) Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2) Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3) In the box that pops up enter “config.trim_on_minimize”. Press Enter.
4) Now select True and then press Enter.
5) Restart Firefox.

These simple tweaks will make your web browsing with Mozilla Firefox at least twice as fast and it’s a pretty simple thing anybody can do.

How many time this have been happened to you that you come across this situation that you want to copy multiple areas on a web page. But before this there was nothing to select more than one area of text in a Web Page unless you install some add-ons which will also give you limited facility. But FireFox 3 is full of lot of features. Now using FireFox 3 you can select multiple areas of text from a web page which will be very beneficial in the research or article writers.

Now with Firefox 3, you can easily select multiple areas at once, select an entire paragraph, or even select multiple words.

What you have to do is just select an area, then move your mouse to another area of text that you want to select, while holding the CTRL key and drag the mouse over the area of text you want to select. Then press right click on any selected text and press copy or just press CTRL + V. This will copy the multiple area. Now made a paste of your selected text wherever you want.

What is Caret Browsing?

Is still this is a question in your mind, then read the following and enjoy the power of browsers..

Caret Browsing or Caret navigation is a kind of keyboard navigation where a caret is used to navigate within a text document. Caret is also known as “text cursor”, “text insertion cursor”, or “text selection cursor”. It is a fundamental feature for applications that deal with text, for example text editors, word processors and desktop publishing programs. So if you are dealing this feature while surfing the web pages then that means you are surfing the web pages like a text file or a document.

This kind of navigation is supported by the Mozilla-based web browsers and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8.0.

A shortcut key (F7) is assigned to toggle between caret mode and non-caret mode. In caret mode, a blinking caret appears within the webpage. User can then navigate the webpage using up and down arrow keys.

Enabling Caret Browsing in FireFox

While browsing press F7. This will give you a pop-up, having the title “Caret Browsing”. Select “Yes” this will give you a blinking cursor on your screen. Now you can work using the keyboard.

You can also select this by default also. To do so…

• Go to Tools
• Then Options and then navigate to the Advanced tab.
• Now check the box in front of “Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages”
• Then Click on the Ok button.

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That’s it.

To disable Caret Browsing by default, uncheck the option and click on Ok.

Same can be performed in IE 8 also.

If you don’t want to work with the latest product from Mozila, or you want to carry on from first or You are unable to locate the previous versions of firefox then follow the steps and you will find any version of FireFox here..

To find a previous version:

1. Go to the Mozilla FTP server.
2. Choose the version you want.
3. Choose the win32/mac/linux-1686/ folder
4. Choose your language. en-US is US English.
5. Choose the file that does not end in .asc. The download will then start.
6. Once the file is downloaded, install it.

If you intend to stay with that version, you will need to turn off Software Update.

If You want both versions of the firefox to run on the same PC then follow these steps:

• Create a backup of your existing profile folder - C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\
• Download Firefox 3 beta 3 from Mozilla.
• Install it to a folder different from the installation location of Firefox 2.
• During installation select custom and ask the installer not to create any shortcuts. (We’ll create them manually)
• Important: At the end of the installation, do *not* select the check box to launch Firefox. We are not yet ready to lanuch it.
• In a command prompt (Start -> Run -> cmd), navigate to the folder where you installed Firefox 3 and run the command
  firefox.exe - P
• In the window that pops up, click new and create a new Profile named Firefox3Test.
• Now create a shortcut of firefox.exe in the Desktop. Edit the shortcut’s property and add -P Firefox3Test to the end (after the “” ends) in the command option.

Use this shortcut to launch Firefox 3. Use your old shortcuts to launch Firefox2.

[Via: labnol]

Firefox by default allows only two downloads at the same time from a server. If you got to download more than to files from the same server in firefox. Here is a quick fix to this.

1. Open Firefox
2. Type about:config in the address bar.
3. Search for network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server by entering this in the filter field.
4. By default the value of this field would be set to 2, double click and set this digit to a number of your choice and less than 10 to increase the number of simultaneous download in firefox.

Thais it.

Although in Firefox is planning to increase it by default.