All Up In Firefox's Happy Hole
Mozilla Firefox is the best browser ever. If you're not using it, then go get it and use it. If you are using it and not using the tabbed browsing functionality, then let me give you a few tips on how to better use your browser. This will change the way you browse the web in the same way a DVR (read: Tivo) changes the way you watch T.V.
Tips on tabbed browsing:
I played around with this a bit and finally figured out some great ways to speed up the scan-and-read way of browsing. This is very useful when you're reading a blog by Noland and every third or fourth word is hyperlinked to another web article about gay midget catapult bowling or somesuch. When you see a link, use your middle mouse button (or mouse/scroll wheel, if you will) to click the link. Doing so will open the link up in a new tab and not a new browser window. This might take some a little practice to click the button and not scroll down the page, but if you've ever played an FPS which allows you to "middle-click" to bring up a scope or something, then you have plenty of experience and control to perform such a delicate task. If you haven't, then I probably don't know you -- and what the hell are you doing reading my blog, you pervert? If you have no middle button on your mouse or you're a Mac user, then you can hold down CTRL (for Mac users, it's the Command key + a prayer to sweet fat baby jebus for being a sinner) and click on the link to open it in a new tab. Now, you can keep reading until the new tabbed page loads. When I finish an article or blog, I can easily switch over to the other tabs one-by-one to read the additional articles of interest.
Using Smart Keywords:
I use IMDB (Internet Movie Database) a lot. So much so that I really enjoy this quick way to perform a direct search on their database. Sure, it only takes one step out of the process of typing in imdb.com and then typing your search keywords, but hey -- it still kicks ass. Anyway, here's how you do it. Open up imdb.com (<-- Did you middle click that link? Nice work), and right click the search box on the left there. At the bottom of the pop-up box, you'll see "Add a Keyword for this Search". Select it. Now, when the "Add Bookmark" dialog appears, enter a name and a short "keyword" and save it. For mine, I used "imdb". You should use, "sho3b0xha|ibut" to make you all l33t and shit. Now to use it, I go to my browser address bar and type "imdb zissou" and press ENTER. Nice, huh?
Add search engines:
Okay, so this feature is much like the smart keyword one above, but its a little more limited in ability since a plug-in has to be created for the site you want to add. However, most of the sites I would be interested in doing a quick search on (Google, IMDB, M-W, eBay, Amazon, BN) already have a plug-in, so I'm all set. In the upper right-hand corner of the browser is the search bar. You probably already have Google in there. To add more, simply click the icon on the left-hand side of the search bar and select "Add engines". Now you can do a search for the search plug-in you want, or select one from the top-10 list they have on that main page.
Tips on tabbed browsing:
I played around with this a bit and finally figured out some great ways to speed up the scan-and-read way of browsing. This is very useful when you're reading a blog by Noland and every third or fourth word is hyperlinked to another web article about gay midget catapult bowling or somesuch. When you see a link, use your middle mouse button (or mouse/scroll wheel, if you will) to click the link. Doing so will open the link up in a new tab and not a new browser window. This might take some a little practice to click the button and not scroll down the page, but if you've ever played an FPS which allows you to "middle-click" to bring up a scope or something, then you have plenty of experience and control to perform such a delicate task. If you haven't, then I probably don't know you -- and what the hell are you doing reading my blog, you pervert? If you have no middle button on your mouse or you're a Mac user, then you can hold down CTRL (for Mac users, it's the Command key + a prayer to sweet fat baby jebus for being a sinner) and click on the link to open it in a new tab. Now, you can keep reading until the new tabbed page loads. When I finish an article or blog, I can easily switch over to the other tabs one-by-one to read the additional articles of interest.
Using Smart Keywords:
I use IMDB (Internet Movie Database) a lot. So much so that I really enjoy this quick way to perform a direct search on their database. Sure, it only takes one step out of the process of typing in imdb.com and then typing your search keywords, but hey -- it still kicks ass. Anyway, here's how you do it. Open up imdb.com (<-- Did you middle click that link? Nice work), and right click the search box on the left there. At the bottom of the pop-up box, you'll see "Add a Keyword for this Search". Select it. Now, when the "Add Bookmark" dialog appears, enter a name and a short "keyword" and save it. For mine, I used "imdb". You should use, "sho3b0xha|ibut" to make you all l33t and shit. Now to use it, I go to my browser address bar and type "imdb zissou" and press ENTER. Nice, huh?
Add search engines:
Okay, so this feature is much like the smart keyword one above, but its a little more limited in ability since a plug-in has to be created for the site you want to add. However, most of the sites I would be interested in doing a quick search on (Google, IMDB, M-W, eBay, Amazon, BN) already have a plug-in, so I'm all set. In the upper right-hand corner of the browser is the search bar. You probably already have Google in there. To add more, simply click the icon on the left-hand side of the search bar and select "Add engines". Now you can do a search for the search plug-in you want, or select one from the top-10 list they have on that main page.
1 Comments:
At 9:51 AM,
The Hamzinger said…
You gotta add in sumptin' 'bout the awesome pluginz available for Firefox.
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