Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Top 10 Magic Tricks of FireFox Browser

There are hundreds of tricks for Firefox that you can apply to tweak, optimize, change UI and mostly to increase browsing speed. But while browsing I landed on a webpage where I found these cool and probably unknown tricks that are somehow useful as well.

To apply and check these tricks you have to open a new window and copy-paste the code in address bar of your Firefox browser.

1. Make Firefox Dance.

chrome://global/content/alerts/alert.xul

It makes the Firefox window auto collapse and expand in the corner of your monitor screen.

2. Open Firefox inside Firefox.

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

This opens another Firefox inside a tab in the the existing Firefox window.

3. Options inside a Tab

chrome://browser/content/preferences/preferences.xul
This opens the Options dialog box inside the Firefox tab. See the screenshot above.

4. Bookmarks Manager inside tab.

chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul
Opens the “BookMarks Manager” inside a tab in the Firefox window.

5. History inside

chrome://browser/content/history/history-panel.xul

Opens the History Panel inside the Firefox tab.

6. See the Extensions in a tab.

chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.xul?type=extensions
Opens the Extensions window in the current tab.
7. Manage installed cookies in a tab window.

chrome://browser/content/preferences/cookies.xul
This opens the “cookies window” inside a tab.
8. Clear Private Data and History

chrome://browser/content/preferences/sanitize.xul
Opens the “Clear Private Data” window inside the current tab.

9. Sliding Developers’ Credits

chrome://browser/content/credits.xhtml
A scrolling list of names of those who created the Best Web Browser for us :)

10. About Firefox in a tab.

chrome://browser/content/aboutDialog.xul

Opens the “About Firefox” Dialog box inside the tab.

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