• Firefox 4 Tips and Tricks

    Firefox 4 Tips and Tricks

    Jayesh Limaye, Apr 05, 2011 1125 hrs IST

    Make Firefox 4 work as you want it to

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Mozilla Firefox has proven to be the most successful challenger to Microsoft Internet Explorer and is fast closing in on the usage share of IE. The recently released Firefox 4 proved that this browser is indeed very popular with it crossing 10 million downloads in just 24 hours, beating the record recently set by IE9 by a huge margin. Today, we will show you how you can make this already popular browser even better by using some easy to do tips and tricks.

Save tabs on exit

There were quite a few changes made in this version of Firefox, and while some were good, a few were not. Users of earlier version of Firefox were shocked to find out that there is no longer any option to save tabs on exit, so that those tabs are restored the next time you start Firefox and continue from where you were last time. This was a very good feature and while it would have made sense to disable it when we had only slow dial-up internet, it just doesn't make sense removing it when almost everyone has decent internet connections. But it is not entirely true that this feature has been taken out. You can still enable it by diving into the advanced configuration settings of Firefox.

Type "about:config" (without the quotes), in the Firefox 4 address bar and hit ENTER.

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Now you will see a warning, just click on "I'll be careful, I promise" button.

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You will see a host of settings which can be changed to alter the way this browser behaves. Type browser.show in the Filter dialog box to narrow down to the setting you want to change.

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You will now see that there is only one setting in the list below - browser.showQuitWarning, and it is set to false. Right-click on it and click on Toggle to set it to true. Firefox 4 will now ask you to save your tabs when you exit and will restore them automatically the next time you launch the browser.

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(6) Comments
Augustine
,Dallas, on Apr 08, 2011 12:59 AM
Thanks a million. It worked for me!
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Prithvi
,Pune, on Apr 05, 2011 11:55 AM
How can one enable 'Quick Launch' in Win7?
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Anton Felix
,chennai, on Apr 05, 2011 12:23 PM
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/888-quick-launch-enable-disable.html
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Raj
,Hyd, on Apr 05, 2011 07:40 PM
Just drag the desktop shortcut to your taskbar..thats it!!!
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Prithvi
,Pune, on Apr 06, 2011 01:23 AM
Sorry, should have elaborated. The icon can be easily pinned to taskbar but needs to be separate from the opened browser, a feature from Vista where multiple browsers could be openedat the same time using just a left click, is what I meant to do. So if thefirst FF browser is open, one needs to right click at the browser at the taskbar & then select 'Mozilla Firefox'. Two steps instead of one. I could hack it but it returned to normal after a some months. This was a nice feature in Vista but not there in Win7.
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Nik
,Vizag, on Apr 05, 2011 11:50 AM
When Will the "i am feeling Lucky" feature be enabled for firefox 4 . I feel this is an extremely useful feature.
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