about:mozilla - I'm sure everyone knows about this, but I just found it by accident a few days ago. The story behind it is kind of cool.

I'm sure you know about these, but I think that the "Web Developer" and "Aardvark" extensions are sweet. Maybe I'll come up with something you might not know in a few minutes...

Sweet & Simple: Shift + Supr deletes the history records (i.e. the froms entries, the URL's, etc etc.)

You can turn most "fixed width" website layouts into stretchy websites with a user stylesheet of * { width: auto; }

I like folders in the bookmarks toolbar. Your own personal menu system!

I'm sure some of you might know of this glitch; windows xp? (maybe it's just the way I have firefox set up.) but when you have session saver enabled and open up chrome://browser/content/browser.xul in a new tab , then open another one from inside of that tab, then try to exit out, it makes firefox crash instantly in an infinite loop.

only way to stop crashing is tools>extensions uncheck "restore every startup" exit out then then recheck and exit out again now firefox is up and running again.

I noticed how nice the javascript console looks on the Mac. So I dug around in the jar files in Firefox and came up with this code to put into my userChrome.css to spice up the javascript console on Windows:

toolbarbutton[observes="Console:modeWarnings"] {
list-style-image: url("chrome://global/skin/icons/Warning.png") !important;
}

toolbarbutton[observes="Console:modeMessages"] {
list-style-image: url("chrome://global/skin/icons/Question.png") !important;
}

toolbarbutton[observes="Console:modeErrors"] {
list-style-image: url("chrome://global/skin/icons/Error.png") !important;
}

toolbarbutton[observes="Console:modeAll"] {
list-style-image: url("chrome://mozapps/skin/extensions/actionbuttons.png") !important;
-moz-image-region: rect(0px, 84px, 21px, 63px) !important;
}

toolbarbutton[observes="Console:clear"] {
list-style-image: url("chrome://browser/skin/bookmarks/Bookmarks-toolbar.png") !important;
-moz-image-region: rect(0px 168px 24px 144px) !important;
}

#ConsoleBox .console-row[type="warning"],
#ConsoleBox .console-row[type="warning"] .console-row-icon {
background-color: #F8F3CC !important;
}

#ConsoleBox .console-row[type="message"],
#ConsoleBox .console-row[type="message"] .console-row-icon {
background-color: #D3EDFF !important;
}

#ConsoleBox .console-row[type="error"],
#ConsoleBox .console-row[type="error"] .console-row-icon {
background-color: #FFD0DC !important;
}

How to lock Firefox settings.
See http://ilias.ca/blog/2005/03/locking-mozilla-firefox-settings.html

I’ve got 2 profiles: one is for my regular use with my customizations, favorite extensions and bookmarks, etc. and the other is for testing purposes. To make myself sure which profile I’m running, I added following CSS rule to my userChrome.css in the regular use profile which places a green band in the menubar.

#toolbar-menubar{border-left:0.6em solid #0c3 !important;}

#toolbar-menubar{border-left:0.6em solid #c00 !important;}

So, I'll know at any point of time which profile I'm running. It’s useful for people usging multiple profiles for any reason whatsoever. Any better way?

A little known extension for Firefox is Spellbound, a spellchecker for checking webforms such as text boxes. Works well and is completely contained in an extension meaning it will work on any platform. Being a port of Thunderbird's spellchecker it has all the same language packs. Eventually I hope it can spellcheck realtime in these text areas with red underlines, that would be fantastic.

http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/

Please, Please make Ctrl + Q exit Firefox as it is in Thunderbird.

I like the possibility to custom the toolbars ...
2 months ago i choose to delete the bookmarks toolbar to have more place for display (view - toolbar - uncheck toolbar bookmark)
... but i liked the concept of find some important bookmark without to find a site in the 1000 others bookmarks ...
So in view --> toolbar --> customize, i've drop Bookmark item in the first toolbar, and add a new directory BookmarkToolbar inside the Bookmark toolbar folder

Result is here:
http://photos21.flickr.com/32541414_6c41158dab_o.jpg
and here
http://photos22.flickr.com/32542477_6333988871_o.jpg

And a funny extension i've found a week ago is Mozcc : http://yergler.net/projects/mozcc/
an extension which display in the low right corner some eventual information about creative commons ...
Try the extension on http://www.mozilla.org

SpellCheck would be a gr8 feature for Firefox. For, UI maybe it would be great if you guys can get some inspiration from google. It is really simple and it seems to recognize acronyms like gr8 etc. Though that would be your call

For me, the keyword features in Firefox are one of the most useful. For example, whilst you can use them for search features, you can use them for a load more. E.g. say you've got a website you visit often, with a fairly standard url structure- a good example is university sites. So you book mark xyz.ac.uk and then add the %s query at the end- so the ultimate url bookmarked is xyz.ac.uk/%s. You might add the keyword uni. Now, when you type the phrase 'uni economics' it might take you to Xyz Uni's economics department. You might use it for the mozilla foundation - saving typing out the first bit of the url each time.

There are a lot of other uses for the keyword stuff here - think beyond search!

I had typed out a huge response - and then Firefox GPF'd and instantly terminated the second I pressed the submit button :|

Basically: Firefox's tab discoverability is pathetic. Real People do not use menus, not hold Ctrl when clicking on links.

single window mode should be on by defauly. Real People do not have a sixth sense for being able to know when a link will open in a new window or not, like we do. When a new window opens (or new tab in single window mode), the back button no longer works, why? *Why can the user not go back?* The back button paradagim needs updating to meet modern tabbed browsing.

When you click back on a new tab that opened, it should close, and return focus to the tab/window it came from. Real People cannot understand why a new window is needed, or how to deal with it. (My mum doesn't understand the task bar)

Firefox should be at the forefront of introducing tabbed browsing to computer novices, and currently it is not doing this. A "new tab" button should be on the toolbar *by default* Real People do not use menus unless absolutely necesary.

The default layout wastes a lot of space if you don't fill up the bookmark toolbar. The way I have it is with the menu and URL bar on the top row and on the second row I have everything else.

Brian P: Thanks for that code. Any idea how to pad the buttons? I added padding-right: 6px; to your rules and didn't seem to get any joy.

Anyway, on topic - did you know some Firefox fans are very artistic? Check it out:
http://www.isolated-designs.net/stuff/firefox.jpg
http://www.isolated-designs.net/stuff/isolated-designs-firefox-wallpaper-2.jpg
http://db.rambleschmack.net/files/FF_IE_NEW_1024.jpg
http://www.tonitreichel.com/projects/mozilla-firefox-wallpaper.html
http://www.shell.linux.se/deluxive/firefox/firefox_remix_1600x1200.jpg

Oh yeah, and there's also this great extension called Text Link
http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_textlink.html.en

I like to assign keywords to bookmarklets. For instance, I have a bookmarklet that breaks long text strings into several lines; this is handy in the Mozilla forums when someone posts a really long link. I assigned the keyword "wrap" to this bookmarklet. When I get to a forum posting with a long line, I type Ctrl-L to focus the address bar and type "wrap", and the page is instantly readable. I have other keyword/bookmarklet combinations, for example:

* remove background images, set the text black, the backgrounds white, and the links blue/purple
* remove all images
* remove all ads (I don't use adblock, but there are times that a page has too many ads to be readable)

I have to strongly agree with Ant's point. The bookmarks toolbar does waste a lot of space. It is really a non essential bar and thus should be removed by default, but easily turned on. Firefox is intended as a basic browser with non essential complications available as options, extensions, tweaks etc. Many dont add bookmarks to it, even if they do its hard to fill the entire bar so its a waste of interface space. It should be off by default, those who want this and other non essential extra's can easily get them going, as an opt in system. At least it should be moved to the top menu bar, top right next to the throbber, which too really is a throbber, so it fits in nicely, and is out of the way of the essential navigation bar. This is especially important as IE7 beta seems to have less bars, no bookmarks toolbar, more an option to, or tidier, non space wasting way instead. Firefox is behind in simplicity, use of space, and maximising web space.

2nd top tip for me is the Cute Menu 2 extension - simply makes the browser 10x better looking. Only complaint is that it like all the cute menu extensions does not yet follow the default theme. This has been complained about, devs are having trouble getting the default theme button images, perhaps you can mention this somewhere Asa, or to someone.

Also, Customise Google extension - is very useful, and of course it is the default search engine in Firefox. Really improves searching, and should be promoted as such, simply the best Google experience possible, for any browser! That's something to shout about and entice users in!

Kroc wrote: Basically: Firefox's tab discoverability is pathetic. Real People do not use menus, not hold Ctrl when clicking on links.

So don't use them. Set the options so that your mouse wheel or middle-click opens a link in a tab. works great for me. Ctrl-w to close a tab when you are done with it.

Besides, in MSIE, real paople *do* have to use a key... namely shift+LMB to open a link in a new window... since of course MSIE doesn't have tabs yet. ;-)

On the main topic, my favorite tip is to use the *prefbar* extension. set it up to let you toggle things on/off like java, javascript, flash, popups, cookies, and buttons like clear cache, history, etc. Lots of choices so pick your own. toggle it hidden or visible with F8. quick, easy and powerful...

on the links toolbar issue, it can take up space, but it can have handy things.
On mine I have the following bookmarklets:

- a google bookmarklet (google on selected words)
- Go Wayback (bookmarket search web archive for current url when I get 404s)
- zap plugins
- list emails (on this page)
- create link
- text msg (to my wife's cell phone)
- Translate
- list all links
- a subfolder that drops down with more bookmarklets that I use less frequently
- a couple of frequent sites (normal links)

See, useful toolbar with all those extra handy functions, and they are easy to add, sort, delete.

Mac OS X has a long-standing phobia of keyboard control; to really be able to use the keyboard for things like tabbing between form elements in a web page, you have to manually enable Full Keyboard Control, and this still doesn't make the Tab key quite as useful as it is in Windows and Linux. Fortunately, Firefox can overcome this phobia of the Tab key with a single line in the Prefs.js file:
user_pref("accessibility.tabfocus", 7);

oops, meant to mention this before... another top tip is to use a theme with reasonably small buttons and toolbars. that helps get a better browser window.

my favorite for mozilla suite is orbit 3+1 with the small buttons option, but as many know, that hasn't been perfectly ported to firefox yet.

anyway, small but attractive themes like that are a big help in reducing all the toolbar overhead.

If you use Forecast Fox and live in North America, check this much better radar display out.

Asa,Mozilla Quality needs to decide on the stability of fastback before the branch.

@Jeff Wilkinson

"Kroc wrote: Basically: Firefox's tab discoverability is pathetic. Real People do not use menus, not hold Ctrl when clicking on links.

So don't use them. Set the options so that your mouse wheel or middle-click opens a link in a tab. works great for me. Ctrl-w to close a tab when you are done with it."

Real People do not use Options windows. Real people don't know that the wheel is clickable, or how to set it. Jeff, you appear to have missed the point completley and have no idea what a Real Person® is.

I can guess why the Google search box is not located between the toolbar buttons and the URL bar --too much protagonism?-- but for me, this setting is much more confortable. It just makes more sense once you try it.

I wonder where the search box goes on Arab/Hebrew and RTL languages builds...

Also, how come we have two buttons for an antagonic function? Reload/Stop? It's more like Play/Pause on an iPod. Either you are doing one thing or the other.

I tried one skin some time ago who did just that: merge the two buttons. Pity I can't remember the name...

Example for a space saving theme and an imho good toolbar usage. links toolbar is off.
http://home.arcor.de/ubergeek/whitehart2.gif

> Also, how come we have two buttons for an antagonic function? Reload/Stop? It's more like Play/Pause on an iPod. Either you are doing one thing or the other.

Two problems with that:

1. A page is loading, you want to stop loading it. You click the button right after it finishes loading by accident. You have now done *exactly the opposite* of what you intended to do.

2. The average user thinks "button -> click -> do something". They don't think in "modes". A button that does one thing some of the time and another, completely different thing the rest of the time is going to confuse people.

This idea was tried in Netscape 4 betas. Everybody hated it and they took it out before final release.

Re: reload/stop. To illustrate that the problem isn't just theoretical, here's a true story:

Last night I was at Blockbuster, renting a couple of DVDs. (Yes, I still do that.) Having forgotten to grab cash, I paid using my ATM card. At the top of the PIN pad were three buttons, labeled for payment type. I reached for and pressed the "ATM" button. While my finger was moving toward the button, the cashier pressed the button on his console indicating an ATM sale. The display changed to an "Is $X.YY OK?" dialog, and the function of the button I was pressing changed from "ATM" to "No." By the time the visual registered, I had already pressed the button and canceled the transaction.

It's one thing for buttons to change their function in response to something you do (pause/play). It's another thing entirely for them to change unexpectedly.

Make it easier to use Firefox settings across computers. For example, I have my computer at home, an office computer, and also shared computers in a computer lab. Any change I make at home I also have to make at my office. The shared computers are another story as I was having problems using a my 1.0.6 settings on the 1.0 version of Firefox in the computer lab. Go figure.

I've already tried using my USB drive to host my profile, but this is slow and not easy to set up. Maybe there is a way to have a user's profile online, much like the Bookmark Synchronizer works for bookmarks?

Noman

On the bookmarks toolbar, clearly some people have a wish to use it. However it is a non essential item. Firefox is a basic browser for basic users, with basic extra's available easily for those who want them. Navigation bar is vital, bookmarks toolbar below it, cluttering the area, taking up web page space, is not essential.

Very novice users will not turn it off, they just won't use it. Whereas those who do want it, and use Bookmarks, know its there and can turn it on in half a second, or position it where they want. Just like with extensions.

If a very novice user sees the stop button turn into the refresh bar, they may well be confused and have the problems note above. They won't necessarily hunt around to change it though. These kind of things should be opt in, for the simple fact people whom want these things are slightly more experienced users who can opt in for such things, just as with extensions.

And, what do you know, an extension available is STOP OR RELOAD button, for those who want it. Go to Mozilla update to get it. The dev is a little lazy as for updating the page for what version it works on, fixing slight problems, and in compatibilities as he's finding the UMO system rather time consuming, but its a good extension. It's also available as an option in All in One Sidebar extension, another tremendous extension feature!

As for tabs, default improvements and options need work, as IE beta 7 works with tabs well right out of the box for average users. One thing I've found is setting everything to open in tabs, clicking visit homepage in extensions manager opens windows. Can someone advise/confirm on this so I can submit a bug.

To Jim:

Agree with #1. Still, you can put there a timeOut function just like when you try to download a XPI file. You don't want to reload a page that have just finished loading.

About #2. There's no need to think in modes: the user has waiting the buttons he needs in every situation. I believe the Play/Pause analogy is pretty widespread. Flipping a coin is not so confusing ;)

I didn't know about the Netscape 4 betas, though...

Don't change a thing!!

1.I AM happy with Firefox right now, I love it!! .. I hate to say but if Firefox goes the way Opera did (too many useless changes & features) or Netscape; Internet Explorer integrated and bloated to hell *yuck* than I'd just keep an older version and tell everyone I know to keep firefox 1.0.5. To conclude my point keep is it as is, People who more: Go install an extension, make an extension, because not everyone will apreciate that feature.. newbies don't know all about the features anyway.. obviosuly they don't give a flip of a f--k, except doing what they usually do; browse the web like mindless drones with a more secure browser (with tabs) *wink wink*. I think Mozilla should keep up the good work, now that Firefox is becoming more mainstream, You should keep stearing toward innovation and new features for people who know their way around but as always make is easy to use and extremily flexible for everyone. newbies and veterans alike.

Firefox rocks just the way it is. I don't use extensions and feel no need to look for any. Am I boring? Am I depriving myself. Don't know.

kroc replied to me: "Real People do not use Options windows. Real people don't know that the wheel is clickable, or how to set it. Jeff, you appear to have missed the point completley and have no idea what a Real Person® is."

Believe me, as tech support to my mom, wife, kids, and various relatives, I do know what you mean. However, perhaps it's not that these options and the UI are too difficult but that we haven't communicated them or we haven't set the defaults to useful settings.

Frankly if the option is enabled, it's really easy to show someone that middle-button clicking opens a link in a new tab. The UI is easy and convenient. If people don't know about it, that's a different problem.

let's drop this here though. it's off-topic for what Asa asked.

Here's an obscure one.

A thin outline is displayed by default on focused elements (this is more apparent when tabbing between links on a page). This focus ring can be controlled with these 5 prefs in about:config

browser.display.focus_ring_on_anything (boolean)
browser.display.focus_ring_width (integer)
browser.display.use_focus_colors (boolean)
browser.display.focus_background_color (hex triplet)
browser.display.focus_text_color (hex triplet)

This ia a huge accessibility feature (even though I use it to hide the ring).

I didn't have time to look up the links earlier, but my favorite new toy is applying site-specific style-sheets using the URIid extension. I compare View Rendered Source with normal "View> Source" to see which id's/ classes are being added bu URIid.

For example, I find it hard to see what's a link on the Mozillazine websites as there is no a:hover color difference and the a color looks pretty close to black on a PC. But by enabling this extension I can change the site's styles via userContent.css like this...
body#www-mozillazine-org a:link {
color: #008787 !important;
}

body#www-mozillazine-org a:hover {
color: #00a6a7 !important;
}
... which makes it clearer for me w/out radically changing the site's look.

But you already new about this one I bet.

About the Bookmarks Toolbar: One thing you're forgetting is that Internet Explorer shows the "Links" bar by default. Newbies coming over from the dark side might wonder where it is, and think, "Hey! This Firefox thing dosen't have that bar with links to my sites."

Get rid of Tools-> Options and create Edit-> Preferences.

I think that this turned into wishlist, instead of tricks and tips. So, here is one small trick:

If you want to save flash, or embeded video file to disk, go to Page info, open Media tab, find that file, and click Save as...

Here's an easy way to improve Firefox's speed on wifi systems:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5791782530

There's the multi-row bookmarks toolbar hack (be warned - there is a bug which can cause pages to jiggle about, but that can be stopped with a reload and/or a page resize)

This goes in UserChrome:

/* Multi-row bookmarks toolbar */
#bookmarks-ptf {display:block;}
#bookmarks-ptf toolbarseparator {display:inline;}

The links button is kinda true and how IE manages to have bookmarks easily accessible, whilst Firefox by default forces an entire long toolbar on you wasting space, simply non essential and not good interface usage. Copying the links button maybe possible with an extension or something, and is quite a good, tidy button feature, but people hardly think there bookmarks have gone, thats just silly.

As for moving options to Edit Preferences, well easy to see your a Mozilla suite user (past or present) and Firefox is not the Mozilla suite. The edit in Firefox is for the page, not browser, so this is a silly suggestion that will not happen.

I'm sure you already know about this, but it's one of the best tips and tricks I know personally so I thought it was worth mentioning here.

If you dual boot between Windows and Linux frequently, it's nice to know that you can share most personal settings in Firefox such as the bookmarks, form information and passwords. You can do this easily by setting up your profile in Windows and store it on a FAT32 partition. Then you just mount that partition to a known location under Linux and start Firefox in Linux. A new profile should be created. Now, close Firefox again and start the magic: Remove the (newly created) bookmarks.html in the Linux profile and replace it with a symbolic link to the bookmarks.html on the FAT32 partition! Do this with every known file in the profile that is shareable. I don't remember the names of the password or form info files but I'm sure that's easy to look up.

This makes it a breeze to swap operating systems from day to day, and it works fine in Thunderbird as well. Of course, this also works between Mac and Windows, or Linux and Mac.

Maybe I should also explain for those who don't know how to create symbolic links in Linux how to do it. Open up a terminal (gasp!) and the basic usage is:

ln -s /source/file /symbolic/link

The above command will make a link to /source/file and that link is called /symbolic/link. When you access the latter, you're actually accessing the former (the source).

So, in order to create a symbolic link to your bookmarks.html file from the Windows partition, here's an example:

ln -s /mnt/windows/firefoxprofile/bookmarks.html ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/bookmarks.html

I think you can do it graphically in Nautilus too if you don't like terminals.

The reason why we're just creating symbolic links to key files in the profile is because some of the data in the Windows profile won't work under Linux. Just simply sharing the same profile won't work.

The Scribe extension allows you to save form information locally for future use. You might not need it that often, but it sure beats copying to a text file.

I think that this turned into wishlist, instead of tricks and tips. So, here is one small trick:

If you want to save flash, or embeded video file to disk, go to Page info, open Media tab, find that file, and click Save as...

Just to clear this up that would be after loading/opening the file in firefox so it has been caught in the cache. Anyways THAT beats the hell out of d/l-ing and expecting something else.

In addition to saving media via the media tab, you can also save any file at a url using this handy extension which immitates Firefox's right click/Save as or CTRL + click:

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=435

http://www.loconet.ca/?action=firefox

You can drag a word from another window (for example, Word) on to the Firefox window anywhere and when you drop it, Fx will do a keyword search for that word.

Or if you select and drag a word from a window within Fx, you can drop it on the location bar and it will do a keyword search.

Heres some neat rules to add the userchrome.css

/* Change the font style, color, and text size on the bookmark toolbar */
.toolbarbutton-text {
font-size: 8.5pt !important;
color: black !important;
font-family: Arial !important;
}

/* Change size of TabStrips */
.tabbrowser-strip {
height: 26px !important;
}

/* Change Tab Colors */
/* Change color of active tab */
tab[selected="true"] {background-color: rgb(222,218,210) !important; color: black !important;}
/* Change color of normal tabs */
tab {background-color: rgb(200,196,188) !important; color: black !important;}
/* Tab while loading */
tab[busy] {color:gray !important;}
/* Toolbars without borders */
menubar, toolbox, toolbar {border-style: none !important; }

Hi Asa,

This is a technical idea and I know you are the wrong audience and I'm no hacker I can't implement it myself. I don't know enough about the mozilla's code structure and maintainers to pass to the right the person so I was hoping to use you as intermediary.

I was reading Raymond Chen's blog when it hit me. Particularly this entry explaining why they used vertical animation in IE:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/08/05/448073.aspx . Go ahead read it - no need to be a developer to understand it.

Then it hit me that this is probably the main reason behind the infamous slow after minimize bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76831).

Can some of mozilla super hackers try and represent at least the basic image types (gif, png, jpg) in aligned memory structures and see the impacts on this bug. I'm sure similar optimizations can be made to a some of the basic layout elements.

I know it seems like a obvious change but I'm sure this is one of those A-ha! things that just seems obvious after you know it.

Thanks,

I found an interesting use for tabbed browsing that I, at least, hadn't thought of before - having tabs open files on your computer. I have several articles I'd looked up for a research paper. I saved them all from Web sites to my computer (they all required me to login to access, so a regular bookmark folder pointing to Web sites would not work) so I could access them quickly in the future. When I got around to doing the paper, I opened one up in my browser (File-->Open) and realized that it'd be great to have them all open. I then opened several tabs and opened each file into its own tab and then bookmarked them all under one folder. In this way I was able to have all of the research for this particular paper open at once and could just click between the article tabs. I know it's kind of a no-brainer on some level, but it sure will save me a lot of time now that I have them all bookmarked under one folder.

Okay, just to add to my earlier post, I stole this from the builds forum http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=305608, as everyone who has been reading it would know.

On the bookmarks menu use shift-drag to move folders around.

David: you legend. Thank you.

Great tips for those that use the keyboard more than the mouse:
* Keywords are your friends. Keyword everything.
* Alt-D selects whatever's in the URL bar, ripe for replacement, copying etc.
* Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to cycle through tabs. If you're using KDE, you'll need to change the global keyboard shortcuts for Cycle Through Desktops and Cycle Through Desktops (Reverse) first. Open up KControl and head over to Regional and Accessibility, then Keyboard Shortcuts.
* Ctrl+W to close the current tab, Ctrl+T to open a new one.
* Find-as-you-type! Turn it on in Tools->Options (or Edit->Preferences if you're a Linux user): hit Advanced, then check 'Begin finding as you begin typing' or words to that effect. This is such an awesome feature. Simply start typing on any page to search for that term.

Shortcuts you never knew existed:
* Shift-Del to remove items from auto-complete menus
* Ctrl+0 to revert back to default text size

Killer features I want:
* When Ctrl-W-ing, Firefox should detect whether there's any forms with information in them that differed from when the page loaded and make sure you want to close the tab.
* Find-as-you-type should be enabled by default.
* Single window mode should be enabled by default.
* Session saver should be rolled into the core.

Killer things I've done with Firefox:
* Create your own to-read list that pops open at the touch of a button. First, add any pages you need to read to your del.icio.us account, with a tag of 'toread'. Next, add http://del.icio.us/rss/[you]/toread as a Live Bookmark in your Bookmark Toolbar folder.

Woah! How come nobody ever told me this?!?

I was forced to retreat to IE (XP SP2) briefly after a recent wacko nightly ( http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=306450 -- I'm one of those, though I didn't add my ditto) and am actually writing this in it.

Using IE is about as efficient as swimming upstream...it will be good to be able to retreat to IE7 one day. While I was admiring the countryside, though, I actually discovered something that, well, I didn't know, and perhaps somebody out there also doesn't:

You can actually use keywords in IE! If you rename your favorites to a keyword, like "The top news headlines on current events from Yahoo! News" >>> "yn" and you place them on the top level (i.e., not in a folder), you're set: just type in the name of the favorite and hit enter.

Of course, not being able to put them in folders and having to actually name them the keyword instead of assign them a keyword sort of defeats the purpose of having a Favorites menu, but nonetheless...

Not *exactly* on topic, I know, but perhaps it will help somebody.

And wow, thanks db, I've never been called a legend before. Gives me goose bumps...

If you have a URL wrapped over multiple lines and you paste it into the address bar, you will only see the first line pasted. Fix: go to about:config, change editor.singleLine.pasteNewlines setting (default 1) to 3. Now all the line breaks will be removed upon pasting. (Value 2 means replace line breaks with spaces).

Actually you don't have to remove the right sidebar on SFX Gallery to 'fixed' the table overflow. You just have to modify the table stylesheet

#image table, #forum table, .project table { position: relative; background-color: white; }