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1. Make the autocomplete menu show only typed addresses and not visited or bookmarked

• Enter about:config in the location bar to access the advanced preferences. Accept the “This may void your warranty message”.
• Look for browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped and double click it to set it to TRUE.

2. To set the autocomplete menu to single line suggestions install the oldbar extension, developed by Seth Spitzer. Together with the previous tweak pretty much restores Firefox 2 behavior, except typed characters are searched in all the address instead of just the beginning.


3. Change the number of suggestions displayed in the autocomplete menu

• Enter about:config in the location bar to access the advanced preferences.
• Look for browser.urlbar.maxRichResults and set it to the number of results you want to get.
• Restart Firefox for the change to take effect.

4. Hide the star button if you prefer to use the Bookmarks menu or a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + D)

• Open your userChrome.css file located in your profile folder.
• Add this line to the end of the file: #star-button {display: none !important;}
• Restart Firefox for the change to take effect.

5. Always show the Go button. By default it is only displayed when you are editing the current web address.

• Open your userChrome.css file located in your profile folder.
• Add this line to the end of the file: #go-button { visibility: visible !important; }
• Restart Firefox for the change to take effect.

6. If you enter firfox in the location bar and you try to correct it, the autocomplete menu won’t suggest anything because it only keeps working as you edit the last characters. Install the Edit Middle extension, developed by harikaried, to make it work with edits anywhere.


7. To auto select the first suggestion in the autocomplete menu, install the Enter Selects extension, developed by harikaried. You will need to logon to Mozilla Add-ons to install it as it’s still experimental.


8. Tweak the autocomplete menu title and addresses size and colors by adding these lines to your userChrome.css file. Check for the specific hexadecimal color code to use at WebMonkey.

.ac-comment {font-size: 100% !important; color: #444444 !important; }
.ac-comment[selected='true'] { color: #FFFFFF !important; }
.ac-url-text {font-size: 100% !important; color: #000077 !important; }
.ac-url-text[selected='true'] { color: #FFFFFF !important; }

9. To include Google and Amazon search results in the autocomplete menu install the Searchery extension, developed by Ian McKellar. You will need to logon to Mozilla Add-ons to install it as it’s still experimental.


10. To hide the web feed icon from the location bar, add this line to your userChrome.css file: #feed-button[feeds] { display: none !important; }

StumbleUpon Toolbar


StumbleUpon is a great way to come across wonderful sites. The StumbleUpon Toolbar extension will help you discover websites in your selected categories. It will also let you share and connect with your friends.
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Shareaholic


Are you a avid social networker? Shareaholic is one extension that will fulfill your addiction with[COLOR=#132784 ! important][COLOR=#132784 ! important][/color][/color] social networks by allowing you to bookmark or e-mail pages to a wide array of social networks.
Shareaholic currently supports digg, del.icio.us, facebook, foxiewire, friendfeed, google bookmarks, google reader, healthranker, kaboodle, magnolia, mixx, myspace, pownce, reddit, simpy, stumbleupon, streakr, truemors, tumblr, twitter, ycombinator, bzzster and more.
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ShareThis


Another extension similar to Shareaholic, ShareThis makes it more easier and efficient to share any type of content with anyone you want to share it with. ShareThis also makes it easier to share with your friends by providing you a mash up of address book from popular social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, AIM, Outlook and more.
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Del.icio.us Bookmarks


This is the official extension created by Yahoo which will help you easily bookmark any site to your del.icio.us, you can also browse all your bookmarks in the sidebar.
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Dashblog


What happens when you see a interesting image and want to quickly want to share it with your friends through [COLOR=#132784 ! important][COLOR=#132784 ! important]your [COLOR=#132784 ! important]blog[/color][/color][/color], twitter or tumblr? Do you want to quickly be able to share those videos, images and websites without having to go through much trouble. Dashblog is a extension that will quickly collect videos, images, text/quotes, songs and screen-captures from any web page and publish them to your blog (wordpress, blogger, tumblr) or twitter.
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Piclens


PicLens transforms your browser into a visually stunning experience for enjoying online photos and videos. You can effortlessly search and zoom your way around thousands of images and YouTube videos faster and more immersively than ever before.

Piclens lets you search YouTube videos and discover videos and photos from various other sites. You can also browser products from Amazon with a 3D experience.
Piclens currently supports a host of services including Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and almost all of the popular image sharing websites.
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Clipmarks


Clipmarks is like adding a pair of scissors to your browser, letting you capture exactly what you want others to see (text, images or video). Your clips are saved on clipmarks.com and can easily be syndicated to FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook or other sites.
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Meebo


Meebo is a popular online instant messaging service[COLOR=#132784 ! important][COLOR=#132784 ! important][COLOR=#132784 ! important][/color][COLOR=#132784 ! important][/color][/color][/color] which allows you to chat with friends from multiple IM networks without having to install any client on your desktop.
We have made a exception to include Meebo in our list even though it is not compatible with Firefox 3 since it is a real must have extension and is definitely useful.
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GMarks


GMarks allows you to sync and manage your Google Bookmarks from within Firefox.
Download Gmarks
Related Downloads: GBookmarks | Google Bookmarks Button
TwitterFox


The extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar that notifies you when your friends update their statuses. Also it has a small text input field to update your status from within Firefox without having to visit the site.
Download TwitterFox
TwitterBar


Are you in hurry and want to post something to twitter? TwitterBar comes to the rescue by allowing you to post to twitter directly from the Firefox[COLOR=#132784 ! important][COLOR=#132784 ! important][/color][/color] address bar. Simply type in your message and click on the icon to submit your post to twitter.
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Digg Sidebar


Who can ever forget Digg when one talks about social networking? Digg sidebar is a useful extension that will allow you to see and Digg stories in the Firefox Sidebar.
View all the stories as they occur without having to refresh the page over and over again, you can also choose from various categories and topics and from popular/upcoming/all sections on Digg by just using a menu.
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FlickrFox


FlickrFox allows you to browse and search Flickr photos in a sidebar.
Download FlickrFox
Facebook Toolbar


The official toolbar from Facebook which allows you to easily access your Facebook account using the toolbar, without having to visit the website.
You can also access your Facebook account from the Firefox sidebar.
Download Facebook Sidebar
Email This! Bookmarklet


Email This! will send your recipient the link, title, & highlighted text of the page you are viewing using GMail, Google Apps GMail, Yahoo, and Stand-Alone Mail Clients like[COLOR=#132784 ! important][COLOR=#132784 ! important][/color][/color] Outlook, Thunderbird, & More!
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Other worth while mentions for bringing Social Networking into Firefox

• Me.dium Toolbar
• Del.icio.us Sidebar
• Video Download Helper

For Windows users when Firefox 3 finishes downloading a file it will initiate a virus scan using any antivirus application that the user has installed on the computer. If you download a lot of files (especially large files) this can become a bottleneck for you as you wait for each file to be scanned, especially when many antivirus applications will automatically scan all incoming files. That means each file you download might get scanned twice. By jumping into the about:config you can enable or disable this setting at your leisure:

• Name: browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone
• Preference Needs to be Created: No
• Preference Type: Boolean
• Default Value: True
• Possible values:
  • True - Scans each download with the installed antivirus application
  • False - Does not scan each download with the installed antivirus application

Those of you that are photo enthusiasts might enjoy the fact that Firefox has advanced color profile capabilities. It’s not enabled by default because it can cause a 10-15% performance hit for the browser, but if image quality is that important to you this might be something you want to enable. Here’s a great comparison between Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 (with the color profile turned on):

• Name: gfx.color_management.enabled
• Preference Needs to be Created: No
• Preference Type: Boolean
• Default Value: False
• Possible values:
  • True - Enables color profile support so that the colors appear richer
  • False - Disables color profile support so that you have better performance

When you go to download multiple files you may notice that Firefox will only let you download two files at a time. If you want to download more you will have to increase the number of connections Firefox can make.

• Name: network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server
• The preference name already exists and does not need to be created.
• Default Value: 2
• Possible values:
  • Increase the value to something larger than 2 if you want to have the ability to download more files simultaneously.