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Some Useful Firefox 3 Hacks

July 9, 2008 | Posted by Christy Gurga | 3 comments

I finally joined the “Upgraded to Firefox 3″ club today and so far, I’m pretty happy with it. However, I was happier after I came across 12 Quick Hacks for Firefox 3 written by Preston Gralla for Computerworld. The article provides some hacks and features to make FF3 a bit more usable and FF2-like for those of you who are resisting some of the changes. I immediately implemented #3: Having Gmail Handle mailto: Links and #6: Shrink the Back Button, and I’m looking forward to utilizing the Get Web Details (#5) feature for developing.

Christy Gurga is junior designer and programmer at theMechanism, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.

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Lol—Mozilla is so pleased about their keyhole design for the back/forward buttons and you went and shrunk it!

Jeffrey Barke (theMechanism)
July 9th, 3:20 pm
Plus you didn't immediately implement #1, view the quote-spewing robot mascot?!? That's reason enough to upgrade to FF3.

Jeffrey Barke (theMechanism)
July 9th, 3:22 pm
the best about:config setting was also present in FF2:

dom.disable_window_open_feature.location = false

(always show the location bar)

Adam
July 10th, 11:55 am

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