Comments on: Your Firefox defaults

By: Elric

Elric — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:43:36 +0000

OMG – the Hide Menubar is a COMPLETE knock-off of the “disable menubar” extension.

By: Happy

Happy — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:44:41 +0000

Agree with most of you, but I’m a fan of the bookmark bar!
2 plugins that made my widescreen sufing better is:

1: Hide menubar – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/4762
2: Smart bookmarks bar – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/4072 (and disable the name shows on hover)

Tadaa! My bookmarkbar can hold like 50 favorites :D

By: Ferdinand

Ferdinand — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:23:28 +0000

Use your middle mouse button or mousewheel to click the bookmark or link in a page.

By: Elric

Elric — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:06:09 +0000

Am actually wondering if there is a hack or add-in (an about:config option would be better) to force ALL bookmarks to open in a new tab, rather than having to right-click and use the context menu option every goddamn time

By: Ferdinand

Ferdinand — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:55:43 +0000

@Elric Open the bookmarks manager select multiple bookmarks by either holding CTRL and clicking them or by selecting one bookmark holding SHIFT and clicking on a bookmark at the end of the list. Then simply right click on the selection and choose open in tabs.

By: Elric

Elric — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:18:00 +0000

Am actually wondering if there is a hack or addin (an about:config option would be better) to force ALL bookmarks to open in a new tab, rather than having to right-click and use the context menu option every goddamn time

By: Morbus

Morbus — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:55:08 +0000

I don’t install firefox. Ever. My profile is three years of now. But I guess I’d install quite a few extensions right away (I have 100+), enable find when I start typing and disable javascript highjacking. And one very important thing I never understood why it wasn’t set from default: I add the new tab button to the tab bar.

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By: BETTYE V. JOHNSON

BETTYE V. JOHNSON — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:45:09 +0000

I don’t know much about computers, and did not understand a lot of the previous posts, but I have a question about a default that aggravates me to no end. I am an old woman who uses the computer for e-mail and shopping and some other stuff. I have tons of extensions and themes. my problem: How do you get rid of that annoying message that drops down whenever you change pages or even login? Also, every time I go to use my computer and start Firefox, it goes to the login page. i am the only person who uses this computer, so I don’t log off ever. but lately it goes to that page every day. When I do log in, a message drops down that says Firefox prevented this page from loading. You have to click on ALLOW, and then it always pops right back up again. Is there any way to get rid of that? I have ATT and Yahoo as e-mail. Thanks, Bettye Johnson

By: wguimb

wguimb — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:10:54 +0000

Hey, some good stuff here.

I do some of those things but mostly I just use the newly installed firefox and kind of see what needs tweaking. Here are some I am most likely to mess with when doing my tailoring:

First and foremost is to import my old bookmarks.

1. Set the ‘Show My Homepage” and the homepage set to http://my.msn.com (Tools->Option->Main->Startup)
2. Set downloads to ‘Save files to’ NAS device folder (Tools->Option->Main->Downloads)
3. Set the ‘new pages should be opened in’ a new tab.
Set the ‘Always show tab bar’ and ‘when I open a new tab’ – switch to it immediately’ (Tools->Option->Tabs)
4. Keep Cookies until they expire (Tools->Option->Privacy)
3. Set mailto action: Use GMail (Tools->Options->Applications->ContentType)
6. Set the default font to “Verdana” and Size 17 (Tools->Option->Content)
7. Set search results to open in new tab (about:config browser.search.openintab = True)

I then addon the following extensions:
DownloadHelper 4.0.2
FlashBlock 1.5.8a1
Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer 2.6.0

Followed by a crap load of plugins….

By: thartwer

thartwer — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:23:17 +0000

1.)
small icons, removing home button, showing new tab button (if<3.1), bookmarks next to menu and no separate bookmarks toolbar

2.)
browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl;true
browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone;false
browser.tabs.closeButtons;3
layout.frames.force_resizability;true
network.http.pipelining.ssl;true
network.http.pipelining;true
network.http.proxy.pipelining;true

3.)
deactivating unnecessary plugins

4.)
installing and configuring NoScript, ReloadEvery and some Dictionaries

By: Ken Saunders

Ken Saunders — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:37:48 +0000

Isn’t this a contradiction?

“Always Clear My Private Data when I close FIrefox(Select all items except Saved Passwords)”

“Deselected Remember Passwords(I use RoboForm”

I used RoboForm for a while a long time ago until I realized that I would have a need for more than just 10 passwords and I certainly wasn’t going to pay for a program to remember them.
You have to consider the amount of time and development that goes into Firefox security and the people who develop Firefox use Firefox and they trust that their passwords and login info are safe with Firefox and so do I but hey, we all have different tastes and beliefs.

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By: mynam

mynam — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:08:52 +0000

Ubuntu Firefox
1. remove stop button
2. remove home button
3. remove activity indicator
4. remove bookmark toolbar
5. minor icons
6. automatically clean up all data when Firefox quits

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:35:53 +0000

1. Me too
2a. Prevent resizing. I leave this option alone or else certain vital popups wont work.
2b. Prevent popups hijacking the context menu. I do this too
3. I use YASS extension for this job.
4. Me too
5. Me too
6. I use QuickToolbars extension for this job.
7. Me too
8. I configure “mailto:” so it does nothing (network.protocol-handler.external.mailto). I get irritated whenever I accidentally click a mailto: and get the popup to configure outlook express.

In addition:
9. Set the New Tab button between location bar and search bar.
10. Set browser.tabs.closeButtons to “2″ in about:config. I use middle click instead of close button.
11. Set config.trim_on_minimize to “true” in about:config. It trims memory usage when you minimise window.
12. Remove “dblclick” value from dom.popup_allowed_events.
13. Disable “Remember what I downloaded”

That and over 30 extensions.

By: George Coffey

George Coffey — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:22:42 +0000

My firefox defaults after installation(without Extensions or Themes)

Main

Homepage home.live.com

Downloads My Completed Downloads(DAP folder)

Privacy

Always Clear My Private Data when I close FIrefox(Select all items except Saved Passwords)

Ask me before cleaning private data

Security

Warn me when sites try to install addons

Tell Me if the site i’m visitng is a suspecting attack site

Tell Me if the site i’m visitng is a suspecting forgery

Deselected Remember Passwords(I use RoboForm

Warning Dialogue(select all)

Advanced
Update – Manual download

By: Ken Saunders

Ken Saunders — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:26:40 +0000

1. Set the tab bar to be always visible (default setting for 3.1, finally)
2. Enable smooth scrolling
3. Disable autoscrolling
4. Disable automatically check for updates
5. Close the Downloads Manager when all downloads are finished
6. Uncheck remember what I’ve downloaded
7. Set (XPI) security.dialog_enable_delay to 0 (until I get MR Tech Toolkit installed)
8. Set layout.spellcheckDefault to 2 (spell check multi-line and single-line controls)
9. Set network.prefetch-next to false (why download links that I never visit)

Shame on you for not using Thunderbird, or at least for not lying and saying that you do for the free publicity. :)
And your #6 (Hide the bookmarks toolbar), man I can’t imagine using Firefox without it (and the Multirow Bookmarks Toolbar extension).

Thanks for your #2 (Prevent web pages from resizing and rising windows, and hijacking the context menu), I never considered it.

This was fun. nice post Percy. Mozilla would be wise to conduct such a survey for themselves.

By: Aljullu

Aljullu — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:45:55 +0000

I’m absolutely agree with 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.

By: Tss

Tss — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:33:20 +0000

Instead of hiding Home button & Bookmarks toolbar, why don’t try this: http://userstyles.org/styles/13328 ?

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:44:37 +0000

I do so many things that I stopped trying. Instead I have modified a default prefs.js, userChrome.css and userContent.css.

By: matrixik

matrixik — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:02:59 +0000

Sorry about second post but I forgot about one more thing:
http://userstyles.org/styles/8564

By: Sune Graaskov

Sune Graaskov — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:04:01 +0000

I do #2,#3,#5,#6,#7 + a bunch of extensions and a theme. And I change the fonts to ones that are readable.

By: SIO

SIO — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:05:47 +0000

Nice guess. I do #1,#2,#3,#4,#5,#6,#7,#8

Plus some tweaks in about:config like increasing speed of scrolling, “Enter” behavior in searchbar etc. Can’t remember all – I never repeat this actions, I just copy whole profile when I need =)

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:08:53 +0000

[x] Always ask where to store downloads
I hate the default location “Desktop”. And I think it is not a good setting for beginners, as I sometimes see people with really cluttered desktops. (X.zip, install-X.exe *and* X.lnk)

By: skfd

skfd — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:09:22 +0000

Same here, except button-merging.