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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.

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.

Firefox 3.5: How to Disable Location-Aware Browsing

Contributed by shamanstears on July 4, 2009 under Mozilla Firefox

If you are concerned about your privacy and don’t wish for Firefox’s new Location-Aware Browsing feature, you have probably noticed that there is no setting to turn it off in the Preferences screen. You can disable this feature though, you just have to use about:config.

Firefox 3.1: Automatically Start in Private Browsing Mode

Contributed by shamanstears on November 26, 2008 under Mozilla Firefox

Private Browsing allows you to surf the web without recording a history of the sites visited and without saving any information about the session. If Firefox is to be installed on a public computer, then starting it in Private Browsing mode is a must.