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Security
In Firefox 2, support for SSL version 2, a security protocol is deactivated by default due to its weakness and now only SSL 3 is supported. If you encounter some all dated web site that requires SSL 2 you can enable it:
- Enter about:config in the location bar
- Set security.enable_ssl2 to true
Open Search Results in Tabs
To make Firefox to display search results in a new tab automatically:
- Enter about:config in the location bar
- Set browser.search.openintab to true (you have to manually add it if it's not present)
Spell Checking
By default spell checking is disabled in single line text boxes. To make it automatically spell check these:
- Enter about:config in the location bar
- Set layout.spellcheckDefault to 2
The Looks
To remove the go button now merged with the location bar
- Enter about:config in the location bar.
- Set browser.urlbar.hideGoButton to true
To remove the search button, you will need to edit the userChrome.css file. Add these lines:
.search-go-button-stack {display: none !important; }
#searchbar { margin-right: 1em !important; }
To hide the list all tabs button, you will need to edit the userChrome.css file. Add these lines
.tabs-alltabs-stack { display: none !important;}
If you just don't like the updated Winstripe theme in Firefox 2, you can restore the previous look installing Winestripe. Get it at Mozilla Addons.
Or you may want to try David Naylor's remix, which is a more saturated (vivid) version of Firefox 2 theme.
Live Titles
By default, Live titles are refreshed every 30 minutes. To specify a different refresh interval:
- Enter about:config in the location bar.
- Set browser.bookmarks.microsummary.updateInterval to the desired number of minutes
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October 23rd, 2006 at 11:14 am
I just posted this to the previous post, but just so you’re aware, I’ll repost it here since the error’s here too…
For hiding the “all tab” button, you shouldn’t use .tabs-alltabs-button as that will still show the button, it just won’t have anything on it and it’ll still be clickable. Use this instead:
.tabs-alltabs-stack { display: none !important; }That will hide the whole thing and make it like Firefox 1.5.
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October 23rd, 2006 at 11:30 am
Thanks for the correction. I just updated the article.
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October 24th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
thanks, this got a lot of firefox 2.0 to work like what i’m used to in 1.5 for me! just a couple things i’m stuck on:
getting rid of the search go button has only removed the magnifying glass icon and made it not clickable for me — the button area is still there.
also, is there a way to set the size of the search box? i used to do this up through 1.5, but now it doesn’t seem to do anything:
#search-container, #searchbar {width: 200px !important;}i move the search box up to the menubar to give more room to the address bar, and with 2.0 it started taking up all the available space up there. i think i just need to tell it not to take up all the available space, but i don’t know how to do that.
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October 24th, 2006 at 8:21 pm
I set browser.urlbar.hideGoButton to true and it’s still there. :-/
Also… this didn’t work for me either:
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October 24th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
Oh, to clarify about removing the search button. It removed the magnifying glass icon, but the space was still there. I tried messing around with the size of the search box, but couldn’t get it to go away.
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October 25th, 2006 at 8:04 am
To really remove the search button, use
.search-go-button-stack { display: none !important; }#searchbar { margin-right: 1em !important; }
(search-go-button-stack instead of search-go-button!)
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October 25th, 2006 at 8:12 am
Seb thanks for the tip, it works! I’ll update the article now.
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October 25th, 2006 at 10:33 am
To restore the next/previous buttons etc to the quick search bar, that pops up at the bottom of the browser, add the following to your userChrome.css file:
#FindToolbar > *
{
display: -moz-box;
}
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October 25th, 2006 at 11:04 am
Firefox 2.0 (annoyingly) removes the next/previous buttons etc from the quick search bar, that pops up at the bottom of the browser.
They can be restored by adding the following to your userChrome.css file:
#FindToolbar > *
{
display: -moz-box;
}
IMO, the UI has really taken a step backwards by being overly simplified.
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October 25th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
Hey, a zh-TW technical blogger pointed out that we should not teach end-users to bypass security design. Instead, you should ask end-users informing webmasters to upgrade their servers.
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October 26th, 2006 at 7:54 am
I tried setting security.enable_ssl2 to true but I still get an error message when I go a site that uses SSL2.
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October 27th, 2006 at 12:07 am
Where do I find the userChrome.css file? I found a couple named userChrome-example.css, but not the former. Thanks.
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October 28th, 2006 at 6:44 am
Just rename the “userChrome-example.css” file as “userChrome.css” and then add the new rules to the bottom of it. :)
Source: http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/edit#css
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October 30th, 2006 at 1:41 am
Thanks for the quick response. I went ahead and renamed the file, adding the rules to the bottom, but nothing’s changed. I still have the search and all tabs buttons. Anyone have success with this?
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October 30th, 2006 at 4:42 pm
Solved. I’d edited the programs file rather than the user file.
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October 31st, 2006 at 5:06 am
i am using ssl web proxy and using LAN proxy and i am annoyed of \’Proxy Authentication\’ popup which i have always to log my network login id and passy.. how i can stop this? thanks in advance..
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November 8th, 2006 at 7:15 am
does anyone know how to change the latency time for the quick search toolbar? basically I’d like it to stay visible a bit longer…
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November 8th, 2006 at 10:54 am
wow you are fast! Thanks…
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November 12th, 2006 at 9:20 am
I just cant get
.tabs-alltabs-stack { display: none !important;}
to work, i’ve edited the filename, added the line to the bottom, restarted but it still has the ‘all tabs’ box? Tried editing the line, copying the file etc etc! Any suggestions?
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January 5th, 2007 at 8:59 am
To adjust the size of the search toolbar and align it to the right/left/centre (as was possible with Firefox v1.5), do the following:
Edit the userChrome.css file to include
#search-container, #searchbar {max-width: 150px !important;
width: 150px !important;
}
Then add 'flexible space' by customising the toolbar within firefox. It should then align itself correctly depending where you put the 'flexible' space.
You can adjust the max-width and width parameters within the userChrome.css file to your liking, just make sure the values are the same.
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January 10th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
There is one extension/add-on that solve all the annoyance!!
Find Toolbar Tweaks
Cheers!
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February 10th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
I didn’t know the default refresh rate for live titles is 30 minutes. Thanks for the tip!
I’m looking forward to seeing live graphic titles, AKA “graphical microsummaries” in Firefox 3 (http://wiki.mozilla.org/GraphicalMicrosummaries). Imagine a live graphic, like a bar graph or a pie chart. That would really be great. The problem with live titles is that they are so hard to explain. To help explain live titles to new users (and show them how to add them to Firefox), I created a short video tutorial here: http://usefulvideo.blogspot.com/2007/02/little-known-firefox-feature-live.html
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March 6th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Can you change what shortcut Quickfind uses? For some reason in Gmail Chat it kept popping up whenever I tried to use an apostrophe. Closing the window and reopening it seemed to fix this, but it seems like it would just be easier to switch the shortcut key in case this happens again.
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March 23rd, 2007 at 7:45 am
is there anyway to remove the shiny features of tab?
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April 1st, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Hello, in FF2.0, I do not have an address bar, only a long search bar. So I cannot type urls directly but must go through Google (or another search engine). I have not been able to find a customization that returns the address bar.
I have exec’d View –> Toolbars –> Navigation –> Reset — still no URL bar.
I have no interest in sending my URLs through a search provider.
Can you help, thanks.
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April 8th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
john:
under “view,” try turning on your navigation toolbar.
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June 16th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
The quick find and the regular find have 2 different styles. If you press ctrl +f you get the button. if you press / or ‘ you get the quick find input only.
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