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Firefox Shortcuts & Tips

Here are some Firefox shortcuts and tips that you may not be aware

that will improve your experience with Firefox.

These are the first steps to becoming a power user.

I plan on digging deeper into Firefox and Firefox Hacks to discover

more so stay tuned.

Set your Homepage in Firefox

Left click on the Tab of the page that you want to use as your

homepage,

and drag it to the “Home” button.

Highlight any URL (text or other) on a page,

and drag it to the “Home” button to set as your Firefox homepage.

Left click on the icon in the Location Bar and drop it on the “Home”

button.

Add a Firefox Bookmark

Left click on the icon in the location bar and drop it:

On the Bookmarks toolbar

On the Bookmarks main menu

Highlight any URL (text or other) and drag it:

To the Bookmarks toolbar

To the Bookmarks main menu

Right click on a page to, “Bookmark this page”

Right click on a link to, “Bookmark this link”

Add a shortcut to your desktop from Firefox

Use the “Restore Down” button (the middle button at the top right

of your screen), or,

drag the Firefox window to a smaller size.

Then left click on the icon in the Location bar,

and drag it to the desktop, or, drag a link on a web page to the

desktop.

Firefox Search Shortcut

Highlight any text on a page and drag it to the Search bar and it

will open in the current

Tab.

Hold Alt while dragging to have it open in a new Tab.

Note: The way that the Tab opens depends on your own Firefox

configuration.

Quickly save an image to your desktop

Resize the Firefox window (as mentioned above in “Set your

homepage”),

Left click on an image and drag it to the desktop.

Open a link in Firefox quicker.

Highlight a link (text or other) on any web page,

and drag it to the Location bar to automatically open in the current

Tab.

View full size images in Firefox quicker.

Left click on an image and drag it to the location bar.

You may have to follow an URL path to get to the source.

More to come

There are thousands of ways to use Firefox, these are just a few.

More Firefox shortcuts and tips to come so Bookmark this page,

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