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I just came across firefox images painted on a public transport bus in Karnataka, India. The images are great. From the photos, it seems that the front tire of the vehicle got flattened and the driver had to stop to replace it. This is when the photographer Kalyan Verma took the photos. Great!
For more images of the bus, visit here.
Those who work on a PC/ Mac for whole day understand the pain of working with mouse. Mouse is actually a single piece of machine which at once is cumbersome & indispensible. This dilemma of mouse can however be solved with the help of keyboard shortcuts.
Following are the shortcuts which I use most often in Firefox environment.
1. Ctrl+Enter: This is for the URL’s which are like http://www.some name.com. This shortcut directly puts the bold part of URL. e.g. for http://www.wordpress.com, just type wordpress in address bar & hit Ctrl+Enter
2. Shift+Enter: Works in same fashion as above for URL’s containing .net
3. Ctrl+Shift+Enter: Works in same fashion as above for URL’s containing .org
4. Ctrl+T: This opens a new tab besides current tab
5. Ctrl+Tab: This helps in navigating between the tabs. Working with Tabs is made better if you download the Tab Mix Plus extension. You can download this extension here.
6. Ctrl+L: Take the control to Address box.
7. Ctrl+K: Take the control to Firefox search box.
8. Ctrl+W: Closes the current tab.
9. Backspace: To move to previous page.
10. Shift+Backspace: To move to next page.
Best thing about firefox is the ability for the user to customize the browser in thousand ways. Daily 100’s of extensions add up to the stable of firefox. Here are top favourites for me –
1. Mouse Gestures: I can’t live without this. I carried this habit from my short switchover to Maxthon (a good but ‘heavy’ browser).
2. Google Toolbar: Yeah, this is a must have. Especially the Level Up button on the toolbar is very useful apart from the Google Suggest in the search box which predicts the search term. Level Up takes you one level up in the directory of a site.
3. IE Tab: I think this is the one extension which virtually makes Internet Explorer browser totally dispensable. Great extension especially for the websites not configured for other browsers.
4. GreaseMonkey: Genie comes and asks what are your 2 wishes? I say Give me a Million Dollars and second wish is – grant me 2 more wishes! Well, GreaseMonkey is that second wish for a firefox user. It opens door to millions of other extensions called user scripts (which run on GreaseMonkey).
5. Adblock Plus: It sits there without ever attracting your attention and there it really wins. It IS supposed not to distract the Firefox users by the ugliest Internet phenomenon – Pop-ups.
Other honorable mentions are – Tab Mix Plus, Google Notebook extension and Scrapbook.
You can install these extensions for your Firefox browser here.
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