5 Firefox 3 Tips

Firefox 3 came up with a bunch of improvements, but some of its new features are really two-headed serpents, because some love them, while other hate them. Just one example - the default over sized Back button in the toolbar. I love it, but some people want to see it go away. No problem, we'll solve that, and we'll also check an additional Firefox 3 tips, so fire it up!

OK, so let's get to it - how to turn the big Back button into a smaller one?

- Right click on the toolbar to get to the menu, and choose Customise.

- Check Use Small Icons, and then press Done.

- Enjoy your small Back button, or go back to the big one!

Next, we'll see how to adjust the Smart Location Bar's suggestions number (maybe you don't want more than 3, after all).

- Type about:config into the Address Bar, and then press Enter.

- Press the I'll be careful. I promise! button.

- Type browser.urlbar.maxRichResults in the Filter field to get to this preference.

- Choose how many suggestions you need(5 is fine with me, as you can see below).

Next, let's see how can we choose what Firefox 3 does with a certain file type by default.

- Open the Tools menu, and choose Options.

- Go to the Applications tab, and type in the name of a program/company/file type. In my case, it's Adobe.

- Select the action you want to set as default, as you can see in the image below.

- Press OK, and it's all done!

Fourth Firefox 3 tip today is a very quick one - to open a tab that you just closed, press Ctrl+Shift+T. Sweet!

At last, a quick scroll tip - to quickly scroll with your keyboard, use the Space key. While the Space key scrolls down, use the Shift+Space combination to scroll up.

That's it for today, I hope you enjoyed these Firefox 3 tips!

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