A few time saving tips

Well, I am sure that some of you know about all of these already, but I stumbled across a few of them last night, not sure why that was.

FireFox Tips:

Cntrl + Enter will add http://www. and .com around a word in the address bar. (ie: you type digitalpoint, hold control and then hit enter) This is the only one of the three that also works in IE.
Shift + Enter will add http://www. and .net around a word
Cntrl + Shift + Enter will add http://www. and .org around a word

Daily Pages (pages you use daily or as a group)

Use the "Manage Bookmarks" editor to place a group of bookmarked pages into a folder named "Daily Pages" (or whatever you want to call them). Then drag that folder to the Bookmark Toolbars Folder. You will then see it displayed on FF below the address bar. When you want to open all of those pages in tabs (like at the beginning of the day), simply click on the folder and select "Open in tabs" from the menu that pops up.

I have created folders for pages I use every day, directories I submit to for new sites, and other admin pages.

Hopefully this will save some of you some time.

 

I didn't know this.

Thanks very much for the info

 

I'm with SEbasic, never seen those shortcuts before. Wonder if I'll get into the habit of using them before I forget their existence. Cheers.

 

Those are good tips,
mind if I post them up on my forum?

 

CTRL + T (Open new tab) has got to be the best of all FF shortcuts, I don't know what I'd do without it

I love FireFox's CTRL + and CTRL - to do text size up and text size down, but I just found this out by chance... CTRL + mousewheel forward/mousewheel back for reduce/enlarge text respectively.

And, if you have a mousewheel with left/right nudge you can do CTRL + mousewheel nudge to move back/forward a word just like the CTRL + left/right keyboard shortcut.

 

If you type in a word in the address bar without the "http://" you get google's first result I think.

 

I new of this one but not other two. So thanx. It's a great tip.

 

glad to see these are helping people. I, like Lever, stumbled across them by accident...

 

Yep

also if you do

google your search phrase

it loads google and shows the results for your search phrase

 

cntl+enter is and old trick that works in IE

 

Use the scroll wheel on the mouse to click on links - they open in a new tab...

 

I have them open in a new tab by default.

CTR + U is handy as well. But the web developer toolbar beats all though. On the fly CSS editing (I used to open in PHP Coder, reFTP and see, then repeat this N times.. Night mare!) frame source viewing, cache control and cookie deletion etc. That bar is saving me soooo much time.

I did know about the grouping of sites in folders to open regularly visited clusters but never got round to doing it. Should though since I always have the same set of FireFox windows with the same tabs open.

 

Does anyone know whether you can change Shift Enter www + .net to say www .co.uk in about:config or somewhere else?

 

I think you guys have convinced me to move to Firefox full-time, I've been a part-time user for a while but these are awesome tips. Thanks

 

Great tips chachi,

I hope Firefox introduces mouse gestures like Opera. And they need to fix the Ctrl-Tab ordering as well, it's not logical.

 

I haven't used it yet, but there is a mouse gestures extension for FireFox

 

I use that plugin all the time - it's really really good...