Mundy

Written by Daniel Mundy

• See Web Proxy for details on automatic configuration scripts, proxy.pac, wpad, etc.
• GreaseMonkey - how to use it, and some links to scripts.
• Command Line Options

 

Essential Plugins

1. Tabs Open Relative - Makes new tabs open to the right of the current one

Safe Browsing

1. http://noscript.net/ - totally control JavaScript execution on a site-by-site basis and on-the-fly with a simple right-click context menu that can be adjusted in a matter of a couple of seconds
2. Adblock Plus
3. Flashblock - blocks flash but with the option to view it by right click

Change Default Keyword Search Behaviour

By default, when you key in keyword(s) in Firefox address bar, it will search the keyword(s) using Google “I’m Feeling Lucky” option. The “I’m Feeling Lucky” option will load the #1 rank website of the keyword(s) search result, instead of listing matching websites.

Personally, I NEVER use “I’m Feeling Lucky” (not because I am unlucky). I prefer to see a list of matched websites and selecting from them.

To change the Firefox option is very simple, as follows:-

1. At Firefox address bar, enter about:config and press ENTER.
2. At Filter: field, type keyword.url
3. You should see a Preference name of keyword.URL in the list. Double click it, a “Enter String Value” input box will appear.
4. Replace the string with: http://www.google.com/search?q=

Create Keyword Bookmarks

In Mozilla Firefox, you can simply right-click in a search field on a web page and choose “Add a Keyword for this Search.” This will pop up a dialog for you to add a bookmark name and keyword.

You can also create it manually:

1. Do a search on the site you want to add a quicksearch to.
2. Bookmark the page you are brought to (the results page).
3. Open the Properties dialog for your new bookmark.
4. In your bookmark’s URL (the Location field), find and replace what you searched for with %s (If it does not appear, you cannot use a quicksearch here)
5. Add a keyword

Difference between (small s) %s and (Capital S) %S

1. (small s): %s will have additional substitution replacements: # by %23, % by %25, / by %2F, and @ by %40.
2. (Capital S): %S will not have substitutions and allow use of C++ in a Google search, allow use of @ in an email substitution, allow use of a fragment-id in a url substitution index.html#example2, and use of a directory as in code/example2.txt.

Keyword Bookmarks for vBulletin Forums

eg:

http://forum.kaseya.com/search.php?do=process&query=%s&titleonly=1

Gmail Enhancements

This GreaseMonkey script: Gmail Full Width 2

Google Reader Enhancements

• Google Reader Print Button

Make Firefox Look and Feel like Chrome

• Chromifox theme
• Locationbar2 Firefox extension grays out the location bar so that the domain displays more prominently (an anti-phishing strategy)
• Download Statusbar Firefox extension
• The Stylish extension allows for all sorts of graphical tweaks to Firefox. Load this and then install the Combine Stop/Reload buttons style.
• This other Stylish extension moves the tabs to the top of the screen
• Both Speed Dial and Fast Dial gives you that great opening page look

Finish up by removing the search bar, moving the navigation tools to the left of the menu bar, and removing the (now) empty toolbars: