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hhfarang

Foxclocks,

I'm not allowed to post URLs yet but google it and you'll find it. With this tool you can put several timezone clocks across the status bar at the bottom of the Firefox window. It is very handy if you do business or frequently call people in several other time zones around the world. You can pick from major cities to be displayed or change the names to whatever town or city you want in that zone. With the longitude and latitude option you can also have a direct link to Google Earth for that city.

Reminderfox,

This is a calendar/reminder tool that also resides in the bottom bar of the Firefox window and it is very handy to remind you of those birthdays, anniversaries, or appointments.

melvbot

We all use the mouse at some point on a computer but I prefer keyboard shortcuts so heres a few Firefox tips

If you have a lot of tabs open and close one by accident you can retrieve the tab by using this shortcut

On Windows press On Mac press And is if by magic your tab re-appears.

Spacebar = page down
Shift+Spacebar = page up

For the following ones if you use Windows substitute the Command key for the Ctrl key

Command + D = bookmark current page
Command + T = open new tab
Command + W = close current tab or window
Command + K = go to search box
Command + L = go to address bar

Theres loads more here

Keyboard shortcuts

Once you start to use the keyboard more for stuff in most applications things tend to get done a lot quicker!

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jandajoy

That's great. Thanks. Is there a list of shortcuts for windows xp?

melvbot

If you mean for the system then Im sure there are loads, google XP shortcuts.

melvbot

Ive got a new software toy so Ive done a short video on how to add a keyword to a bookmark for quick access.

View in fullscreen by clicking the four arrows on the player controls.

Viddler.com - adding keywords to bookmarks - Uploaded by melvbot

melvbot

This might help people on slower connections like dial up. If theres a site thats taking a long time to load because of flash or videos go to

View - Page Style and click No Style

This leaves a stripped out page of text, links and images without the backgrounds etc. This does render sites like youtube pretty useless but for most text based sites like news sites it should work fine.

melvbot

The URL bar on FF3 seems crowded to me sometimes, at the place where the favicons displayed just to the left of the URL bar theres a popup when you click the favicon. On most sites like TD its pretty small but if you go to this extension page on Mozilla you'll see what I mean, theres is huge and takes up loads of space in the bar

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8758

The reason for the waffling is this extenxsion adds a few buttons inside the URL bar to do stuff like copy the URL etc. Cant use it on mine as it says its for an older version.

melvbot

This is an extension for advanced preferences. gui:config makes it easier to change preferences that can only be found in the “about:config”.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5523

Gui:config Gives Easy Access to Hidden Firefox Settings

I cant see much thats of use to me with this extension, its a GUI for some of the settings in the about:config. If you like messing with cache sizes and configuring bookmark backups you wouldnt be the sort of user who would need this anyway.

melvbot

Firefox 3.0.6 released. The usual flurry of things fixed, we've made it more stable etc so head over to here to grab it

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6 Release Notes

or in Firfox got to

Help/Check for updates.

Marmite the Dog

I bet they haven't fixed the memory leak though.

melvbot

I havent been keeping on top of the add ons lately but this one caught my eye. If you have loads of tabs open it can somethimes be difficult to tell whats what as they get reduced and stored in that tab thing next to the + sign on the right of the tab bar.

This extension

Firefox Showcase - Download

give you a preview pane of thumnails when you click the extra tab button next to the + sign. Loads easier to see which tab is which

melvbot

Updated to 3.0.7 blah blah blah

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7 Release Notes

melvbot

I forgot about Songbird as I was on an OS version it wasnt made for, Ive upgraded so I can check it out.

New 1.1 version here

Songbird - Open Source Music Player

Marmite the Dog

I tried Songbird. Not impressed.

melvbot

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 released. I'll give it a whirl

Firefox web browser | Help us test the latest beta

melvbot

3.0.8 released. Im giving this one a try as the beta 3 is peaking the CPU again, beta 2 was fine.

Norton

Any hints/ideas on FF download manager. When I have multiple downloads going the downloads occasionally suddenly stop. When I pause and restart often get message "failed cannot connect". If I disconnect and reconnect modem everything works well. Might be my ISP but suspect it's FF.

Marmite the Dog

I use the Flashgot Add-On coupled with Free Download Manager - absolutely free download accelerator and manager.

Download the FDM first and install, then DL the Flashgot Add-On and it will see that FDM is installed.

Works perfectly for me.

melvbot

That was short lived. Tried 3.0.8 and the search box doesnt work. Anyone else using it yet?

Norton

Thanks. Will try it.