Tag: browsers

Engines for Mozilla Firefox search bar

Most of you probably already know this, but I have just found out myself, so I’ll share just in case some of you missed it too…

Recent versions of Mozilla Firefox have a feature called a search bar. It is usually located to the right of the address bar. By default, this search bar is configured to use Google. That is, instead of going to Google, you can just type your query in that search bar, hit Enter and you will get the search results. This is very convenient and saves a lot of time and clicking around.

Now, if you click o the small Google icon in the search bar, you will be presented with a list of other search engines, that you can use instead of the default Google option. There is also a menu item marked “Add Engines“. If you click on it, you will be taken to this page, where you can find hundreds and hundreds of other engines that you can use. Two that I have been missing the most were Google Images and IMDB.

Check this out and you will most probably save yourselve a lot of time.

P.S.: On Linux, these engines are installed into some global directory, so your Firefox will need root access.

Tabbed browsing with Breasy.com

If you want to try tabbed browsing before installed a browser that supports it (like Mozilla Firefox) or if you work in a place where they don’t allow you to install software and you cannot live without tabs, try Breasy.com. It is essentially a web interface that allows to browse several sites simultaneously in a single browser window, group sites in groups, have split screens, and some other things proper browser does by itself.

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 is out there

If you, somehow missed it, Mozilla Firefox 1.0 web browser has been released. Slashdot has an announcement too.

If you want to stay up-to-date with Mozilla news, visit often (read: subscribe to RSS at) these sites: Blogzilla, mozillaZine, and Spread Firefox.

If you are looking for Firefox 1.0 RPMs for Fedora Linux, you might want to check this link.

Congratulations and kudos to the developers and testing teams!

Updated Mozilla Firefox to 1.0PR

I have updated my Mozilla Firefox to version 1.0PR. It does appear to be faster than the previous version that I had. Also it has a couple of nice features. When browsing through sites which provide RSS/Atom feeds, a small ‘RSS’ icon appears in the status bar. By clicking on this icon, one can subscribe to RSS feed. It will appear as a Bookmark folder which will contain items of the feed as separate bookmarks. Very neat. Another nice feature is Autoupdate. When enabled, it will check for new versions of installed themes and extensions, and optionally update them. It can even update Firefox itself. I was missing this for a long time now.

Playing around with extensions, I found the options for the GoogleBar extention. Don’t laugh. I had it installed for years, but never bothered to check the key bindings. It turned out I was doing too many clicks. It is extremely easy to bind ‘Alt+Enter’ to run queries on http://images.google.com and show results in a new tab without switching focus to it. There is much more, of course, but this is what I was missing the most.