Mozilla Firefox

Firefox: Have New Tabs Open to Home (or any other) Page

When I open a new tab, 9 out of 10 times I want it to open to google. Firefox will not open a page by default when you open a tab. Here is how to change that.
I click a new tab in firefox. There opens a blank, untitled page. Quick, but YAWN!
By using tab mix [...]

31Dec2008 | siman | 0 comments | Continued

Firefox 2.0: Disable 3rd Party Cookies

Earlier versions of Firefox allowed you to disable 3rd party cookies via the Options dialog box. Since this is not featured in the new version of Firefox, you can disable 3rd party cookies by following this tech recipe:
1. Open Firefox and type about:config in the address bar.
2. Right-click network.cookie.cookieBehavior and select Modify.
3. Set the value [...]

26Dec2008 | siman | 0 comments | Continued

Firefox 2.0: Fix for Disappearing Bookmarks Toolbar

As the local firefox guru, many of my friends have asked me about problems losing the bookmarks toolbar soon after upgrading to ff2. Here is the easy fix.
Many, many things will cause you to lose your bookmarks toolbar. For some reason, however, many of my friends have had problems soon after upgrading to the latest [...]

26Dec2008 | siman | 0 comments | Continued

Firefox 2: Prevent Automatic Image Resizing and View Actual Size

The new version of firefox (ff2) will resize images automatically. I don’t particularly like it, so here is how to revert to the old 1.5 style of image handling.
I want to see graphics actual size. Please don’t resize unless I ask you to. Here is how to disable ff2’s automatic resizing of images.
1. Open FF2
2. [...]

24Dec2008 | siman | 0 comments | Continued