Firefox: Open search results in new tab

In Firefox, if you type a query and hit enter in the search box, you will get results in the current tab by replacing the open page. You can open search results page in new tab by hitting alt+enter instead of enter. If you want to open search results page in new tab always, you can do so by changing config entries.

Type about:config, and go to the key browser.search.openintab and change its value to true.

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Firefox: Spell Check Single line text boxes also

Firefox comes with spell checker which checks for spelling errors in the multi line text boxes. You can make Firefox to spell check single line text boxes also like email subject lines, etc by changing config entry.

Type about:config in a new tab, then go to the key layout.spellcheckDefault. It's value is 1 by default, which means spell check multi line text boxes only.

0 - Disable Spell check.
1 - Check multi line text boxes only.
2 - Check all text boxes, including single line text boxes.

Change the key value to 2. No more spelling errors in the email subject lines.

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Firefox: Open Page Source in Notepad

If you want to view page source of a website, Firefox opens it in the internal viewer. Though this viewer is great with the color coding, you might want to edit the document or want to open it in an external viewer like dreamsweaver, frontpage, etc. For this you have to change the config entries.

Open about:config, go to the key
view_source.editor.external, set it to true.

Next go to the key view_source.editor.path, give your program path there. For notepad, it is C:\Windows\Notepad.exe.

From now it will be opened in your favorite editor.

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Firefox: Search from Address bar

In firefox, you can search from address bar. When you type your search terms and hit enter, Google's I am Feeling Lucky search will be performed, and it will directly goes to the first site in the search results.

If you are not feeling lucky, you can change it to perform normal search by changing config entries.

Open Configuration editor by typing about:config in a new tab. Go to the key keyword.URL, and change its value to the following

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=0&q=

Or you can change it to completely different search engine als. For example if you want Yahoo search, change it to

http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=moz2&p=

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Firefox: Open bookmarks in new tabs

In Firefox, you can open a folder of bookmarks at a time by selecting "Open All in Tabs" option. But, then these sites be opened in the existing tabs by replacing the opened sites. If you want to open all bookmarks in a folder at a time and want your opened sites to remain opened, you can achieve that by changing a Firefox option using about:config.

The process is simple. Type "about:config" in a tab, it will show a lot of options you can play with. Search for browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace key and change it to false by double clicking on it (or right click>toggle).

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