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You can use Firefox browser at any occasion and it’s really best for web developers and webmasters, because it provides many additional plug-ins and extension libraries for ease of all kinds of web development and optimization tasks. As you already know about Firefox’s marquees features, but there are some shortcuts and tweaks which Mozilla promotion didn’t mention. Here we are going to discuss its features, uses, tricks and customizations. I hope you’ll find it useful.

Speed up the Firefox

Before giving any grim vow for Firefox; the first thing would be to plug some obtrusive gaps that it would require huge memory space while adding new extensions. So you need to speed up your Firefox. You have to type about:config in address bar and press enter. Then by right clicking select “new” and “integer” from the menu. A dialog box will appear in front of you; there you have to enter the following string: browser.cache.memory.capacity. Then another dialog box will appear there you have to enter 16384, coz it represents 16MBs of RAM. After doing this you have to restart all the instances of Firefox, you would feel that the speed of Firefox browser is now increased. There are also other ways to increase speed. If you are a broadband user, then type about:config in the address bar and press enter. A similar screen will open.

Then at the Filter type: network.http.pipelining, and now you have to double click on variable to switch the false to true. Now at the Filter line change the variable from 4 to 8. But if you find it a bit difficult then you can install the FasterFox extension. It will update the process of tweaking Firefox and will give you clean interface to contact all the tweaks.

Google Reader Integration

It is a script that will allow you to integrate your Google reader feeds with your Gmail. When you will read the latest message about this quarter; that your department’s productivity as decreased by 24%, then you could enjoy your favorite RSS feeds.

RSS Quick Subscribe

You can subscribe by using this script and  all of its options will appear on the page. When you will press button to add, automatically it will appear in your feed reader; without any problems.

Productivity Extensions

You can change your Firefox into productivity machine. The tool for new productivity is Greasemonkey. It will allow you rescripting of Firefox by allowing immense functionality. Once you install it; you would have a list of more Firefox extensions.

• Customize Google

It improves Google search results having extra information for instance links to yahoo, ask.com MSN etc and would remove the surplus information.

• BugMeNot

If you are tired of registering at every site that you see for any purpose, so BugMeNot will be good to overcome this annoying thing. There would be a database of already made registrations by tapping it, you can avoid almost all these annoying login ads and screens just simply by right click on that.

• Auto-Fill Form

A lot of your productive time is being wasted when you fill registration forms. This extension will overcome this problem. You can now only fill the default required fields.

• SEO

There are some plug-ins for SEO minded people, which will help you to have a deeper consideration on how websites are performing.

• SEO For Firefox

It is the best SEO tool for Firefox, which allows you to find a matrices host from any website you are visiting. It will also add some extra choices in your Google search result page, to show you the view of each sites rank page, back links etc. You can easily use this plug-in else you can also make it to be off.
Delete Mistyped URL Suggestions and Other Auto-complete Entries

Location bar is pretty smart; if you are typing any URL but mistakenly you misspelled it then it will show you page doesn’t exist. In Firfox3 there is a facility to remember the URL for future use so would give you suggestions of similar spelling sites in future. If you want to remove mistyped URL from your suggestion list then on Mac you have to press shift+delete, and for windows you just have to press Delete. It could also be useful if you miss-spelled login form’s fields that is user name or password.

Trick Out Your Smart Bookmarks

Firefox3 have a dynamic list of URL as smart Bookmarks, which are generated by following some certain search criteria. Now if you want to create your own collection of smart bookmarks for some specific search limitations. Hint: you have to add the most repeated pages you visit on google.com by bookmarking place:queryType=0&sort=8&maxResults=5&domain=google.com.

Adjust the Smart Location Bar’s Number of Suggestions
 
New smart location bars is an awesome feature of Firefox3 that is if you type any URL it comes to conclude the URL you want to browse. But if you think that suggestions are relatively less or more you can adjust it in configuration area.

• You have to enter in the address bar about:config and then press enter.

• Then you have to select “I’ll be careful. I promise!” button.

• In Filter field to reach its preference field you have to enter browser.urlbar.maxRichResults.

• Now you can set number of suggestions. (e.g. there are three in image)

Shrink the Super-sized Back Button

In Firefox the first notable thing is its large size Back button. It is quite useful that you won’t miss your target. You can also change its size if you don’t like its big size from Firefox’s toolbar by choosing Customize and select Use Small icons. 

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