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Firefox: How to Make Google Reader the Default RSS Reader for Subscribing to Feeds

Contributed by shamanstears on November 16, 2009 under Mozilla Firefox

If you are a Firefox user and Google Reader is your RSS feed reader, you normally have to take an extra step of choosing how you want the feed displayed, either on your Google homepage or in Google Reader. By making a couple of simple changes in the about:config settings, you can click on an RSS feed and preview it directly in Google Reader, one step away from subscribing to the feed.

Firefox: Enable AutoFill in URL (Address) Bar

Contributed by shamanstears on November 3, 2009 under Mozilla Firefox

By default Firefox has AutoFill disabled for the address bar, but if you like this functionality, you can enable it by following these steps.

Firefox: Enable Case Sensitive Searches When Using Find (Ctrl+F)

Contributed by shamanstears on under Mozilla Firefox

If you use Firefox’s Find (Ctrl+F) to find a term or name on a web page, you might try using case sensitive searches to make things easier. This is disabled by default but can easily be changed by taking the following steps.

Firefox 3.6: Enable Visual Previews When Using Ctrl+Tab (Windows Only)

Contributed by shamanstears on November 2, 2009 under Mozilla Firefox

By default, Ctrl+Tab will switch between open tabs in Firefox. But if you are running Windows 7, you should enable Visual Previews for a sexier way of navigating your open tabs.

Opera 10: Set Gmail as the Default Email Client

Contributed by shamanstears on September 22, 2009 under Browsers

If you use Gmail as your primary email client, Opera 10 makes it easy to associate any mailto links that you might encounter to use Gmail as the default email client. All you need to do is make one small modification to one of the .ini files. Instructions are included for both Windows and OS X.

Firefox: Automatically Open Result Page from Search Box in New Tab

Contributed by shamanstears on August 4, 2009 under Mozilla Firefox

Firefox’s search box is a helpful feature, but by default it opens the result set in the open tab. If you want to keep your current tab unchanged, you can set Firefox to open the search box’s result set in a new tab.

Firefox 3.5: Stop the Location Bar from Suggesting Bookmarks and/or History

Contributed by shamanstears on July 15, 2009 under Mozilla Firefox

By default, Firefox’s location bar suggests existing bookmarks and previous browsing history. If you find this to be more than you want to deal with, you can disable the suggesting of bookmarks, browsing history, or both.

Firefox 3.5: Set Gmail as the Default Email Client

Contributed by shamanstears on July 8, 2009 under Mozilla Firefox

If you use Gmail as your primary email client, Firefox 3.5 makes it easy to associate any mailto links that you might encounter to us Gmail as the default email client. While this has been possible with previous versions, you don’t need to jump through any hoops or use any add-ons with Firefox 3.5.