Using about:config is a powerful way to customize your Firefox. Combined with the previous userChrome.css tweaks post and Firefox Add-ons (post coming soon), you can completely personalize your Firefox experience. Today I will be talking about how to modify about:config, give some online resources of tweaks you can do, and tell you which ones I personally recommend. Ready?

How to modify about:config in Firefox 2

Open a new tab and type “about:config” (without quotes) into your location bar (also called address bar) and press Enter. Firefox will display a very large set of key/value pairs for a ton of advanced settings. Type in the “Filter:” field to narrow by
preference name. You can double-click or right-click on a row and select Modify (for String or Integer fields) or Toggle (for boolean values). There is another tutorial here.
Now you probably don’t have all week to go through these, so that’s why I am here to list the most interesting changes. Continue reading →

There seems to be a bit of buzz around microformats since developer teams at Mozilla and Microsoft have announced that the next version of their browsers will support them.

What are Microformats

According to microformats.org:

Microformats are small bits of HTML that represent things like people, events, tags etc. in web pages.

These small bits of Semantic HTML will allow website viewers to interact with websites in many more ways. Continue reading →

Wow. According to the vote you guys like Firefox. Want your Firefox to look cleaner and sleeker? There is so much you can tweak. If you haven’t optimized your Firefox setup so you can do more efficient research/development/browsing/downloading, it is time to start. Stay tuned for more posts that will look at different ways to improve your ‘fox experience.

Today we will look at modifying the userChrome.css file to remove unused menus, give you more viewing space, and generally give you the flexibility to see only what you care about and nothing that you don’t. Mozilla has created a Configuration Guide that you should check out to find the directory to create your userChrome.css file (it does not exist by default, but there is an example file in that folder). Continue reading →