http://www.firefoxmastery.com Firefox Tips, Tricks and Tweaks Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:19:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Mozilla Firefox development team has published the first beta of the upcoming Firefox 3.1 browser to the Mozilla ftp. Interested users can grab their copy right from the releases directory where it branches of to downloads for the various operating systems and supported languages. Not that many new features are ... http://www.firefoxmastery.com/firefox/firefox-31b1-out/ I suppose you all have read about the newest Mozilla Labs baby called Ubiquity which is a mix of a command line and service launcher for Firefox. It was released as a prototype yesterday and there have been some positive reviews about the new service so far. Let me go into ... http://www.firefoxmastery.com/firefox/ubiquity/ I recently installed a software that changed the default search engine in Firefox. Firefox would query that search engine whenever I entered a keyword or phrase in the location bar. Thankfully though it is pretty easy to revert the change and restore the default Firefox search engine. You need to open ... http://www.firefoxmastery.com/firefox/restore-the-default-firefox-search-engine/ Adblock Plus is one of Firefox add-ons that you will find on every recommendation list. The add-on blocks many forms of advertisement including popup and banner ads. It sometimes however blocks regular websites from being displayed correctly and I found it very useful to add my bookmarked websites to a ... http://www.firefoxmastery.com/firefox/disable-adblock-plus-for-bookmarks/ You might be in for a nice surprise if you are trying to download certain file types with the latest version of Firefox 3. Certain file types, like exe or msi are blocked from being downloaded displaying a red cross and the error message "This download has been blocked by ... http://www.firefoxmastery.com/firefox/this-download-has-been-blocked-by-your-security-zone-policy/ Firefox has been my main browser for a long time. I really loved Firefox 2 and the waves of add-ons that were created by the community. This added tremendous value to the browser and put it on pair with Opera. You'd always find an add-on for something that you needed ... http://www.firefoxmastery.com/firefox/firefox-3-experience/ The Mozilla team is going for the world record with the official release of Firefox 3. They want to be the most downloaded software in the first 24 hours after release ever. I'm saying ever because this record attempt is a first, there is no magic number to beat and ... http://www.firefoxmastery.com/firefox/firefox-world-record-are-you-in/ I usually work with the keyboard in Firefox whenever possible which speeds up many processes in Firefox. I was always a bit irritated that I had to click on a search result after searching on a search engine. This did not feel right and natural. After typing the search phrase and ... http://www.firefoxmastery.com/firefox/the-keyboard-is-mightier-than-the-mouse/ The guys over at Firefox Facts are explaining in an article how to backup the Firefox passwords manually. This is interesting for everyone who needs to quickly move passwords from one computer to another and those who want to backup their passwords regularly without using a Firefox password exporter extension. All ... http://www.firefoxmastery.com/firefox/backup-firefox-passwords-manually/ Let me describe what I would like to do. When I open the bookmarks menu in Firefox I can load one bookmark at a time that is in a folder. I know that I can load all bookmarks in a folder by middle-clicking on the folder directly which loads all ... http://www.firefoxmastery.com/firefox/open-multiple-bookmarks-at-once-in-firefox/