Friday, March 21, 2008

My 2 favorite FireFox hacks

These are my 2 favorite FireFox hacks. I'm not interested in any speed tweaks, these are just personal functionality and display hacks I like. I often find myself wasting time online trying to find this info again.


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Type about:config in the address bar and click on the browser.tabs.closeButtons key. The value should say 1 by default. To turn off the individual Close Tab buttons, enter the value 3. A 2 disables the Close Tab button altogether.

1 -> show close button for each tab
2 -> do not show close button
3 -> show close button at right-hand most corner for closing tabs altogether

I like mine set to 3 so all tabs are closed by 1 universal close button on the right.

If you want to see all your tabs, change the tab width or turn off the scrolling feature completely. Type about:config in the address bar and choose the browser.tabs.tabMinWidth key. The default value is 100, meaning that the minimum width of a tab is 100 pixels. You can modify this number—double-click on the value—to fit more tabs in the screen before the scrolling kicks in, or just enter 0 to disable the feature entirely.

I like mine set to 0

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