I also know that Mostly users of window operating system use internet explorer but some of the people try Firefox and leave again this because addiction of internet explorer look but this is not a good choice where security and time is main things in these days. so Don’t leave Firefox only on this basis where you addict with internet explorer look &  graphical design because tone of the features are available and waiting your mouse clicks and you can also customize Firefox according to your desire.

You can also look some other fact if you are a window xp user your internet explorer version 6.xx and this version does  not support tab browsing and if I talk my own self today I don’t work without tab browsing which save my thousands of hours which spend on internet.

Internet explorer 7.xx & 8.xx version support tab browsing but why don’t you try Firefox (3.x.x, English (US), Windows (7.1MB))

So why do you try only one time and leave it please try it 10- 20 times and you can find this is a right choice for you and your work which you done with internet every day.

If you are totally new in Firefox you can try Firefox with some of the top shortcut keys which save your internet surfing time and increase your productivity.

Ctrl + T

Open new tab in same window when you want to open new website.

Ctrl + Shift + T

Reopen any tab which accidentally closed or closed by you or undo close tab.

Ctrl +shift + Delete

Clear Private Data Now, When sometimes few site don’t open properly due to some cache & cookies problem but after clear this data you can open website without any problem.

Ctrl + j

You can open your downloaded file quickly with this option.

Ctrl + L

If you open many website this option is more batter except mouse clicks.

Ctrl + F

Every website has own search bar for searching any matter but if you want to search in any webpage (very long page like Wikipedia) this may be helpful for you.

Ctrl + shift + D

You can bookmarks all your open tab in one time with some specific folder, this is good for you when you work on any topic or subject and suddenly go to other place  so when you close your Firefox use this shortcut key and Firefox add your all open tab as a  bookmarks for you in seconds.

Ctrl +w

You can close your opened tab quickly then mouse click.

Ctrl + +, Ctrl + – Ctrl +0

If you have wide screen monitor and you want to take full utilization of your monitor to maximize your opened web page or your Grandmother/ Grandfather or other person which has weak eye side and don’t read webpage text due to small size of text this option is good for you.

F11

You can maximize  your Firefox window size with it and you can more concentrate your opened web page without affecting other opened program & task bar.

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Type in your location bar – about:config and Enter
you will see a message – Click on I’ll be careful, I promise (if your open first time)
Then in the filter bar type – browser.tabs.closeButtons
Double click on browser.tabs.closeButtons
By default value is -1
Firefox display a close button on every tab also depend how much tab you have open.

When you open firefox on full screen-

Maximum open tab with close button – 5 (800 x 600 screen resolution)
Maximum open tab with close button – 7 (1024 x 768 screen resolution)
Maximum open tab with close button – 9 (1440 x 900 screen resolution)

If you open more tab according to your screen resolution, Firefox display close button setting automatically changes and now Firefox displays a close button only on the currently open tab.

Set default value – 0
Firefox display a close button only on the currently open tab.

Set default value – 2
Firefox don’t display close button on any tab.

Set default value – 3
Firefox don’t display close button on any tab but it show end of the tab bar in right side.

Note: Don’t change about:config setting without full confidence & knowledge

If you pass your most of time with net surfing, I definitely can say that you also use bookmarks features. Every time when you go to new site and you like that site, you add in your bookmarks and by this way your bookmarks become longer day by day.

From my point of view bookmark has become biggest property of most of internet users.

But few Problem are in this popular feature that is, it is not possible for you to remember all your bookmarked sites every time and next time whenever you visit that same site again, definitely you will add it again because you are not remember that this site has been added earlier or not by you.

But now solution is here in Bookmark Duplicate Detector 0.7.2 .Thanks Stephane BERTIN for creating this cool plug-in

Download Bookmark Duplicate Detector 0.7.2

But if you don’t want to wait, use this simple trick.

Type in your location bar – about:config
You will see a message – Click on I’ll be careful, I promise
Then in the filter bar type – security.dialog_enable_delay
Double click on security.dialog_enable_delay  and set value 0 (By default value is 2000)

Restart your Firefox, now you can install add-on without wasting time.

Cooking is my passion, Most of the times I do net surfing for delicious food recipes. A lot of food recipes sites are available on net and some of them are very useful with a number of food recipes but it is very difficult to remember name for every site and very hectic to search them again and again. Once as usual I was on my favorite hobby of searching food recipes I got a very general feature of firefox. Although it is very simple feature but I never used it. I became surprised how I could avoid that. Anyways I used it and found a great way to see all my favorite food recipe sites without remembering names.

For example – sanjeevkapoor.com, food.sify.com, tarladalal.com are my favorite sites
Now we can label the sites sanjeevkapoor.com, food.sify.com, tarladalal.com with the “foodrecipes”.  When we enter “foodrecipes” into the location bar, all three sites will be shown with tag name ( foodrecipes ) as results. We may not remember the exact name of a site, but with a tag, we’ll be able to find it in a way that makes sense to us. A single site can have multiple tags, and there’s no limit to the number of tags we can create.

Quick use
Click on the Star at the end of location bar

Simply write the name of Tag for site of our interest for example”foodrecipes”
Now simply write the tag”foodrecipes” at the location bar

Each site with tag “foodrecipes” will be displayed.

Firefly is a file manager extension for Firefox. you can manage your file and folder easily without open any file and folder , after installing this extension your Firefox work like windows explorer. Just click firefly toolbar and do all your work without minimize firefox.
Some popular feature -
Ability to split the view as many times as you like.
Four different view types for the file browser (details, list, tiles, gallery).
Audio/Video, Image preview in the tooltip
Transferring files allows to pause/cancel/resume the transfer. If the files exists in the destination you will be asked if you want to resume (file size must be smaller), overwrite or rename the file.
Copy/Paste, Cut/Paste files and folders.
Filter current view – you can use regular expressions or just plain wildcards (changed in preferences).
Integrated Audio/Video, Document, PDF, Image preview (requires VLC, Open Office, Acrobat reader plugging to be installed. In v0.4 Mplayer, Windows Media Player and QuickTime are also supported).
Delete files and folders (delete asks only once if you are sure – after that you can’t stop it – so be careful).

You can also configure firefly according to your requirement.

Download Firefly now

Quick use:

1.    Click here for installing CAPTURE FOX
2.    Icon will display at status bar

3.    Starting capturing click on Icon , A small window will appear

4.    Choose “CAPTURE AREA”,” VIDEO QUALITY” AND “SOUND” AS PER YOUR CHOICE
5.    Click on “START CAPTURING!” button
6.    Recording duration appears after “CAPTURE FOX ICON ON STATUS BAR

7.    Ending capturing click on Icon

Files saves automatically in AVI format, you can play it with  windows media player, VLC Player, jet audio or other AVI compatible software.

First with mouse
Hold Ctrl keys and drag  the current tab to a new place(in Tab bar).

Second with keyboard
Choose any tab and click on navigation bar (where you type site name) , then press Alt + Enter together.

Close Firefox and start again, and you can found that Firefox open with multiple sites.

1.    If you don’t have Google toolbar first install it.
2.    Right click on menu bar and select customize…
3.    And now you can simply drag & drop page rank button from Google toolbar to navigation bar.
4.    After then click on done button in customize toolbar window.
5.    Now Right click on menu bar and unselect Google toolbar.