A short narrative of Firefox Customizations as seen through it's images.

Firefox customizations in pictures

Location: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/pictures.htm
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Pictures extracted from my web pages (#pics)

ff_small_window.jpg (1966)

.Sometimes Firefox opens in a very small window. One of problems may be
Corrupt localstore.rdf; also see Prevent websites from disabling new window
features and also check here.

ff_appearance_2006_0303.jpg (37329) see firefox.htm

More information on Toolbars and customizing the menus can be seen on other pages so will probably
not be included here, see ...

Mozilla Knowledge Base Articles that you should become familiar with

Firefox 2 Features, overview
Firefox Help: Menu Reference
Firefox Help: Options Window, Tools Options (user interface to Preference settings)
About:config documentation of user preferences above and beyond those in Tools, Options

On site articles with high visual content

Right-Click Menus and Toolbars in Firefox (rightff.htm), contains a considerable documentation Menus, Toolbars, and the many Context menus. A companion articl facilitates comparison of context and other menus to examples, and snapshots of rearranged menus made possible with the Menu Editor extension Main Context Menu examples are found on a companion page (rightff_companion).
Bookmarks and Bookmarks Manager (bookmarks.htm)
Keyword Shortcuts(kws.htm)
Profile: Finding and Assigning Shortcuts, create both Firefox and Windows System Shortcuts for Quick Launch.
Extensions listed with short usage notes (firefox.htm#ext)
Common problems/questions with Firefox 2.0 (firefox.htm#fx2)

Some extensions for which I have a lot of documentation for so would be better to look there rather than even starting here.

Add to Search Bar, create search engines from any search form.
CopyURL Plus, Copies to clipboard the document's URL along with the title or the selected text.
Customize Google enhance search results.
Launchy, Open links and mailto's with external applications like Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, Outlook etc

Menu Bar and Search Bar (#searchbar)

ff_menubar.jpg (5314) More information about Menu Bar (rightff.htm#menu)

The "Throbber" extension provides up to four quick links, in addition to your homepage icon.

ff_throbber.jpg (737).

Searchbar (Ctrl+K) (#searchbar)>

Original Engines

ff_search.jpg (5896)

Search History is per engine

ff_searchbar_history.jpg (10462).

Search Bar (Ctrl+K), Firefox's builtin Search Bar
included at (rightff.htm)

Google Groups Search Orientation
   included at (search.htm)
   includes a bookmarklet to help view
   Google Groups resultsearch Engines are covered at

Google Groups Results, you may need a bookmarlet to be able to see results

ff_gg_hide.jpg (23456) see search.htm, search.htm#ggorientation, and searchengine.htm

Find Bar (#findbar)

ff_findtoolbar.jpg (6467)

The Find toolbar can be started with Ctrl+F or by typing while browsing, appears at the bottom ,
Some problems you may have with Find, scrolling up and down the page (PageUP/PageDown, SpaceBar)
can be addressed at firefox.htm#findproblems

Status bar (#statusbar)

ff_statusbar.jpg (6591)

Work Offline extension

ff_offline.jpg (933)

ff_online.jpg (948)

Bookmarks Menu, adding bookmarks, Bookmarks Manager (#bookmarks)

Bookmarks Menu (#bookmarksmenu)

View menu, sidebar [onsite]

ff_view_sidebar.jpg (8980)

Bookmarks menu (kb article)

	Bookmark all Tabs	Ctrl+Shift+D
	Search Bookmarks
	Bookmark this page	Ctrl+D
	Organize Bookmarks
	Subscribe to this Page
///	Clubs (folder)	>
///	Computers (folder)	>

Adding Bookmarks (Ctrl+D) with keyword shortcuts (#trld)

ff_ext_openbook_addbookmark.gif (7917)

There are two dropdowns to help you with the Create in a folder,
one of them is circled in Red and accesses all of your bookmark
folderss, the one just to the left of that is a quick reference to
folders you most recently used to add bookmarks into..

The "OpenBook" extension adds keyword and description
to the Bookmarks properties, when you use Ctrl+D to add
a bookmark. See my keyword shortcuts (kws.htm) page
more information on keyword shortcuts. You should also
install the "keywordbar" extension. See my Bookmarks page.

ff_kws_add_02.jpg (22474)

Shows expansion of folders on the builtin
Add to Bookmarks which is missing the keyword
and description property input areas..

KWS: Keyword Shortcuts (#kws)

"keywordbar" extension, used in the sidebar

----ff_ext_keywordbar.jpg(34,063)-----------

The "keywordbar" extension will help you find and use the keyword shortcuts you assigned to some of your bookmarks. You would also use the "Locate in Bookmarkfolders" extension if you want to find and move such shortcuts around.

Double-clicking on a keyword in the keywordbar will place the shortcut on the location bar, where you can then include the argument, if any, before entering. Right-click on an item will select the containing folder when in Bookmarks Manager.

Examples of keyword shortcuts
  :: (site:kb.mozillazine.org -intitle:talk %S}
  ff: file:///copiediste/dmcritchie/firefox/%S
  ffp: http://wwww.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/%S
  html: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/index/elements.html

The Tools, Addons, Extensions,
Open Book, Options (preferences)

Following are my own preferences.

ff_ext_openbook_options.jpg (36,579)

The search of the MozillaZine KB actually looks something like http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site%3Akb.mozillazine.org+-intitle%3Atalk+%S

Bookmarks Manager and Enhanced Bookmarks Manager (#bookmarksmanger)

bookmarks menu see KB article

ff_bookmarks.jpg (35048) see bookmarks.htm

ff_bookmarks_manager.jpg (63745) see bookmarks.htm as builtin

ff_bookmarks_ebms.jpg (45540) -- Enhanced Bookmark Search

Bookmark preferences in about:config (#aboutconfig)

About:config user preferences are initiated from the location bar and provide a means of choosing preferences
far beyond those available in Tools, Options, ...

ff_config_bookmarks.jpg (35542)

ff_config_bookmarks_sort.jpg (33030)

Bookmarks Bar and Tabs Bar (#tabs)

ff_personal_k.jpg (5969) how my personal bookmarks bar looked before chrome changes

userChrome changes (#userchrome)

ff_tabs_userchrome.jpg (32401)

userChrome changes above show Bookmarks Bar with folders in blue, and filenames in red; and Tabs Bar
underlining as inactive tab, active tab, and unread tabs, and a smaller font size on all toolbars.

The Copy All Urls extension can create default or customzed text or HTML links for all tabs open on the tabs
bar [Edit Menu]IMain Context Menu]. You can open a lot of links at once into separate tabs using the Linky
extension for selected links [Main Context Menu]..

ff_tabsbar.jpg (5957)

ff_tabbed_browsing.jpg (6659) how tabs bar might look without much customization (4 tabs)

ff_tabsbar5.jpg (8203) (6 Tabs_

ff_tabsbar6.jpg (7355) have made heigth shorter , font smaller (8 tabs on 2/3 screen)

ff_tabsbar4.jpg (10031) You can compress the tabs down to the icon size or even smaller. note that the tenth tab is the underlined red active tab (32 tabs on 2/3 screen). Without the userChrome.css changes you would only see about five tabs on screen (1024x768)..
ff_tabsbar7_55.jpg (10031) You can compress the tabs down to the icon size or even smaller. 55 tabs on 1/2 width of 1280x768 screen (20" wide) and could be compressed more. By this time I have also made the tabs bar not a high see userchrome.css in tabs.htm		.

ff_tabsbar_scroller.jpg (26690)

Tabs context menu
(right click anywhere on tabs bar)

ff_tabsbar2.jpg (9116)

Profile Using the Error Console (#profile)

to find PROFILE see profile.htm

ff_js_error_console.jpg (69485)

Windows: You can locate your profile folder with the use of %APPDATA% by
pasting %APPDATA%/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles into the address bar of "My Computer" in Windows,
if you used the default install folders suggested for Firefox, adapted from Where is my profile folder a topic
in Mozillazine KB article Profile folder - MozillaZine Knowledge Base (suggested keyword profilefolder:)
More information on my Profile: Finding and Assigning Shortcuts (profile.htm) and
Quick Launch (quicklaunch.htm) pages.

Needless to say these methods are far to complicated to script for using with a portable device see
notes on Firefox Portable (firefoxportable.htm).

...

Extensions (Tools, Addons, Extensions) (#ext)

ff_ext_forced.jpg (42150) see infolister_listing.htm

.Your extensions can be seen with Tools, Addons, Extensions.

►Compatibility Testing Disabled: (#compatibilitydisabled)

extensions.checkCompatibility set to False in about:config
More information: Forcing Extensions by creating extensions.checkCompatibility and setting to False. You are using Disable so don't toggle Enable which refers to overriding ALL deprecated extensions not specific to anything selected. Those that have been forced are marked with an exclamation point ( ! ) on their icon, but there is no indication on the InfoLister listing (this listing).

Updating extensions - MozillaZine Knowledge Base, You can configure Firefox and TB to update your extensions and themes automatically, and you can even disable/prevent auto-update for individual extensions.

For more information about my system and the installed extension that are active or are disabled see my listing at infolister_listing.htm. For descriptions of the extensions that I use or have discontinued see firefox.htm#ext for extensions that I will certainly not install see firefox.htm#useless

ff_ext_extension_manager_extended_pict.jpg (29918)

The Extension Manager Extended extension
add additional information to the Addons list
and the context menu provides additional
links to selected addons extension's folder.

ff_ext_linkproperties.jpg (43409)

The Extended Link Properties
extension adds more infomration
to the link properties. Invoked by
the main context menu "

CopyURL Plus (#copyurlplus)

(based on customized additions to user.js)
Entire user.js code here
	Copy URL + Title
	Copy URL + Selection
	Copy URL + Title + Selection
	Copy URL + <dt>title<dd>selection / url
	Copy URL + <a href=...>...</a>
	Copy URL + <a href=... title=selection>...</a>
	Copy URL + <a href=...>...</a>, selection
	Convert TEXT to HTML code
	DIV + <a href=...>...</a>, selection
	Copy URL + Title (Wiki)
	Extension pattern for Website

Use the CopyURL+ extension for copying and pasting such items as the link title, and url from a web page or from the line anchor information, along with the optional current selection, is easily customized to format this information using COPYURL patterns of your choice to paste into other applications. Some suggested customization patterns are included for blogging, HTML, plain text for email, and other uses have been provided.

There are 3 builtin menu items, you will always see the first, but the second and third only appear if you have a selection.

Example of Copy URL + Title + Selection for use within email, the title came from the Title META tag within the HTML, the selected text appears within quotes, followed by the URL.

Firefox customizations in pictures
"A short narrative of Firefox Customizations as seen through it's images."
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/copiedsite/dmcritchie/firefox/pictures.htm

The pattern I use most for within webpages is Copy URL + <a href=...>...</a>, selection

<a href="http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/pictures.htm">Firefox customizations in pictures</a>,
A short narrative of Firefox Customizations as seen through it's images.

You might want to also install Copy All URLs to create plain text or HTML formatted text for the URLs of all open tabs into the clipboard.

Windows System - Running Tasks (#windows)

Large picture warning (172k), shows performance TAB
from the Systems Task Manager, no real signifance to Firefox... view large picture ►

Windows Start and Windows Quick Launch Bar (#winstart)

ff_win_start.jpg (4535)

More information on some shortcuts for
the Quick Launch Bar

ff_win_quicklaunch.jpg (28012)

GreaseMonkey and Platypus usage example (#greasemonkey)

Shown first is what you see before the Grease Monkey script was created, the view after this one show
the readable results with rearrangements and eliminations through Grease Monkey. Adblock may also have
a hand in eliminating some ads and disagreeable parts.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-5808221.html?tag=nl.e589 Test to see if you are winning or losing the battle

The GreaseMonkey example of the above has files, which are very large pictures, if you still want to see them first use Full Screen (F11), then use... view large pictures ►

Outline for ACGNJ Sig presentations (outline.htm)
Firefox Customizations (firefox.htm)

Bookmarklets and other code in this area was messed up by using NVU (WYSIWYG editing)

Bookmarklets; There are a lot of links on this page. The following BookMarklets (Favelets) will distinguish between internal or external links. First click on "highlight links", and then on "int/ext links". Your browser's Reset button (F5) will reload the original unmodified web page.

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