Non-tips in the tips thread

[AnonEmoose]

Opera does that. But I'm confused, I don't need to use slash to find something, I just start typing and the find bar at the bottom opens and starts searching.
Doug

Only if you have checked the box under Options-->Advanced-->Accessibility. If left uncheckedwill start it either finding any text or links only depending on if u use a slash / or an apostrophe '

[Guest]

I love these tricks.

[AnonEmoose]

Regarding thomas7g tip which does have merit, rather than changing those values indiscriminately, see the original, detailed & comprehensive thread here http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=53650

Tip: If you experience a lag after clicking a link or bookmark you might consider disabling IPv6 by typing "about:config" into the address bar and changing the pref network.dns.disableIPv6 to a value of "true".

[asamra]

Do anyone know , why when composing email on Yahoo , it doesnt show the smileys or font color?

[creed74]

I love this

[meba]

Wow! Wow! Wow - firefox just keeps getting better and better for me

Don't think this tip is there yet (apologies if I missed it and am repeating) -

If you have visited a site before you can, instead of typing a complete url into the address bar (eg http://www.google.com) you can just type the main/first word (eg google) it'll "wrap" it for you.

[Guest]

It will be much convenient if you could made a flash version to demostrate these functions! that is really easy to understand worldwide!

[Monster_user]

Hmmm, a Flash plugin, they said please don't ask questions... If I don't create a new thread about then you should

Click on the "Google" logo in the search bar, and you'll get a choice of search engines. You can add "Ask Jeeves" by visiting the Firefox Page.

[seanr]

Tip: If you wish to remove an item from your Address Bar Drop down menu, Highlight it WITHOUT CLICKING and use Shift+Delete

Does not work in Linux.

[memo]

does anyone here just talk in understandable words?? i am having trouble installing "user friendly firefox" from a cd. can someone give me some help??

[mavau]

Filipp0s
I'll get started on it.
Any thoughts on how to organize?
I'm thinking of starting with mouse, keyboard and so on.

[Filipp0s]

mavau it looks very nice Thisis how you format knowledgebase articles; I can do it for you after you finish, if you don't want to read the page.

Edit: Fixing link

[nice boy]

Press F13 to overide Popup controll

[pippolomeo]

ALT+D moves the focus on the address bar

CTRL+F5 refreshes the page without accessign the file cache

[Guest]

pressing down 'ctrl' on your keyboard while using the scroll button on the mouse will zoom in and out on the text on a webpage.