The Firefox Web Browser has many features and settings which you may not know about, but which you might find very useful. This page provides a list of tips and tricks for users of Firefox.

Navigating Documents

• Press Ctrl + F to display the page search bar. This allows you to type parts of words and find them in the current page.

Shortcuts

• Press Ctrl + T to open a new tab.

• Press Ctrl+ Shift+ T to reopen a tab you just closed by mistake.

• Press Ctrl + H to show your browsing history.

• Press Ctrl + K to select the web search box.

• Hold the Ctrl key and scroll up or down with your mouse wheel to increase or decrease the size of text.

Useful Add-ons

• Adblock - Allows you to hide advertising on web pages.

• Web Developer - Essential extension for web developers, which allows you to edit the CSS of a page and run validation checks, amongst other things.

Speeding up Firefox

Here are five steps for speeding up Firefox.

1. In your address bar, type about:config and press return.

   • Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true

   • Set network.http.pipelining to true

   • Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 8

   • Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true

Creating Mandatory Preferences for Firefox

• FirefoxMandatoryPreferences