Firefox Tip: Opening Search results in a new tab

Here's a useful tip to always open your Firefox search results in a new tab:

• In the address bar type about:config
  

• Look for browser.search.openintab
  

• Double click the False value (in the Value column) to change it to True
  

• Now try to search something in your favorite search engine

PS: this works in every OS (at least Linux and Windows).

last updated: 22-04-2008

Firefox Widgets

Firefox widgets (buttons, radio buttons, drop down menus, text fields and checkboxes) in Ubuntu don't look so good. I don't like it. And I'm not the only one.
So, we can change the images and CSS code for the widgets so Firefox will look really nice :)

Here's a tip from Ubuntu Forums:

Steps to make Firefox widgets look good:

• Download the Firefox Widget Installer
  

• available at the end of the first post (direct link)
  

• Run the installer
  

• unpack the archive and run the graphic_installer
• install in the Firefox directory (default is /usr/lib/firefox)
  

• Make this the default look, even when Firefox is updated
  

• to make the default look

sudo dpkg-divert --add /usr/lib/firefox/res/forms.css

• to undo the previous

sudo dpkg-divert --remove /usr/lib/firefox/res/forms.css

Before


After


Further reading:

• Firefox Widgets, a Tip from Ubuntu Forums

last updated: 17-04-2008