How to disable the AVG Safe Search feature that checks links in Firefox. The feature shows up next to links when performing searches in Google.
1. In Firefox, click Tools > Add-ons.
2. Click Disable in the AVG Safe Search Add-on.
3. Close the window. When you restart Firefox the next time, the AVG Safe Search option will now be disabled.
When you visit certain web sites in Firefox, you might get an error message that says something similar to the following:
site address is a site that uses a security certificate to encrypt data during transmission, but its certificate will not be valid until date/time.
To try to solve this problem, just double-click on the time in the lower right corner on the Taskbar and set the time correctly. Be sure to check the time, month, date and the year. As soon as it is corrected, this will usually fix this issue.
You know how some web sites open up windows and make it where you can’t resize them? It’s annoying. Here’s how to prevent this.
1. In Firefox type about:config in the address bar and press ENTER.
2. Locate and double-click the entry for layout.frames.force_resizability to set the value to true.
The favicons in Bookmarks can be distracting sometimes. Here’s how to disable or enable them.
1. Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter.
2. Set both of the preferences browser.chrome.site_icons and browser.chrome.favicons to false to disable favicons or set it to true to enable them. Double-clicking on the setting will toggle it.
Firefox has been locking up on me lately. I get to a point in my day where I have more than 8 tabs open and it just freezes. I can’t switch to another window or another tab in Firefox.
One of my tabs is usually Yahoo Mail since I like to check my email throughout the day. I noticed Yahoo pages serve a lot of animated Flash ads and they were animating very slowly. I found these ads have been the culprit in slowing Firefox as well as my machine down quite a bit.
So what do I do? Uninstall Flash and suffer when I need it to play games or whatever? Well I found a workaround, albeit it’s not practical. Everytime one of these ads load and start locking up things, I can right-click on the Flash ad and select Quality > Low.
Doing this has made makes problem with Firefox go away immediately. However, I have to do this each time the problematic ad loads. Annoying, but a workaround for now.
How to set Firefox 2 as the default web browser in Windows.
1. In Firefox, click Tools > Options.
2. Under Main, there is an area for Always check to see if Firefox is the default browser on startup. Click the Check Now button.
3. When the prompt appears for Firefox is not currently set as your default browser. Would you like to make it your default, click Yes.
Firefox should then become your default browser.
When you right-click on a link and open it in a new tab, the page will be opened in a new tab. By default it doesn’t switch you right over to that tab. Check this box if you would like Firefox to switch you over to that tab immediately.
1. To get here, Click Tools > Options… in Firefox.
2. Click Tabs on the top bar.
3. Check the box for When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately.
Now you are saved from clicking an extra time each time you open a link in a new tab.
Are you protective about others knowing what you’ve been doing in Firefox? This setting comes in handy, especially in work environments where you might be worried others are checking out what you’re doing. You can set Firefox to clear private data whenever you close out of Firefox.
1. In Firefox, click Tools > Options…
2. Select the Privacy tab.
3. In the Private Data area, you can check Always clear my private data when I close Firefox.
4. Taking this option further, you can click the Settings… button to configure what data you would like to erase when you close Firefox.
Every once in awhile, Firefox throws me a warning when I visit and encrypted page. I find them annoying. Here’s how to disable these warnings about visiting an encrypted page.
1. In Firefox, click Tools > Options… .
2. Click Secuirty.
3. Click the Settings… button in the Warning Messages area.
Did you know that Firefox has a feature that caches pages that it thinks you are going to click on? This can slow down system performance. Here’s how to disable the Firefox prefetch setting.
1. Type about:config in the address bar and press ENTER.
2. Locate and double-click the entry for
network.prefetch-next
3. Set it to false to disable this feature. Double-clicking on the setting will change it.
Web sites that take over my Firefox browser window really annoy me. You know, those sites that use JavaScript to resize your window or even move it to another part of your screen? There is an option in Firefox that can prevent this from happening
1. In Firefox, select Tools > Options… .
Do you have a username and password that has changed, but Firefox keeps trying to automatically fill in old passwords for you? Delete them with these steps.
1. In Firefox click Tools > Options.
2. Click Security at the top.
3. Click the Show Passwords button.
4. Find the web site you wish to remove in the list. Click/highlight it with your mouse.
5. Click Remove and click Close then OK when you are finished.
Now the stored password will be removed from Firefox.
How to make Firefox’s fonts look like the fonts used in Vista.
1. In Firefox, click Tools > Options.
2. Click Content.
3. Under Fonts & Colors click Advanced.
4. Use Constantia as a replacement for Serif.
Calibri as a replacement for Sans-serif.
Consolas as a replacement for Monospace.
So you don’t want anybody using your computer to know what you’ve been searching for in your Firefox Google Toolbar? Here’s how to delete it.
1. Click on the drop down menu for the Google Search.
2. Search history will appear. At the bottom is the option to Clear Search History.
3. Click this option and all of your search history will be cleared. The drop-down will be entirely blank afterwards.
How to use GoogleTalk within a Firefox Window.
1. Download and install the Firefox gTalk Sidebar add-on.
2. Once the add-on is installed and Firefox is restarted, you have to make a button for it. Right-click on the Navigation toolbar… you know where the back, forward and reload buttons are? Select Customize.
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