There are a few things you can do to improve your browsing experience.
First of all the most important one, press F11 to maximize the viewing
area! In Firefox 3 everything will disappear, even the navigation bar
at the top. Moving the cursor towards the few remaining pixels brings
it back, beautiful. If you prefer to have it visible all the time enter
about:config in the address bar and change browser.fullscreen.autohide
to false.
The only thing that's been bothering me with the full
screen mode is the lack of the status bar, especially when hovering
over links to check the destination. The status bar can be brought
back. Open a terminal and launch the profile manager.
You
will see the name of the profile you are currently using. Close the
profile manager and type the following in the terminal, substituting myprofile with the name of your profile.
Enter the following line at the end of the file you just opened and save it.
Now
another thing that makes browsing difficult, if you don't have a mouse,
is the touchpad. Especially right clicking, changing tabs and so forth.
Fortunately Firefox has quite a few touchpad friendly shortcuts.
CTRL + LEFT CLICK » open link in a new tab
CTRL + T » open new tab
CTRL + W » close tab
CTRL + N » open new window
CTRL + SHIFT + W » close window
CTRL + TAB » switch to next tab
CTRL + SHIFT + TAB » switch to previous tab
ALT + LEFT » back
ALT + RIGHT » forward
CTRL + L » select address bar
CTRL + K » select search bar
Mastering
all those shortcuts makes for a smooth and fast browsing experience. If
you really want to go hardcore press F7 to bring up a small cursor. Now
you'll barely need the touchpad at all. Makes browsing a bit tedious, i
wouldn't recommend it.
Very useful on the small screen is the
zoom feature. Firefox 3 zooms the whole page, keeping the layout 1:1,
which can lead to garbled images. Most of the time it's better to just
zoom the text, you can toggle this behaviour with browser.zoom.full in
about:config. Everything is saved for each domain individually, making
it really nice to customize your preferred font size.
CTRL + + » Zoom In
CTRL + - » Zoom Out
CTRL + 0 » Default
One last thing, enter about:robots in the address bar.
First of all the most important one, press F11 to maximize the viewing
area! In Firefox 3 everything will disappear, even the navigation bar
at the top. Moving the cursor towards the few remaining pixels brings
it back, beautiful. If you prefer to have it visible all the time enter
about:config in the address bar and change browser.fullscreen.autohide
to false.
The only thing that's been bothering me with the full
screen mode is the lack of the status bar, especially when hovering
over links to check the destination. The status bar can be brought
back. Open a terminal and launch the profile manager.
/opt/firefox/firefox -profilemanager -no-remoteYou
will see the name of the profile you are currently using. Close the
profile manager and type the following in the terminal, substituting myprofile with the name of your profile.
cd /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/*myprofile/chrome
mousepad userChrome-example.cssEnter the following line at the end of the file you just opened and save it.
#status-bar {visibility: visible !important;}mv userChrome-example.css userChrome.cssNow
another thing that makes browsing difficult, if you don't have a mouse,
is the touchpad. Especially right clicking, changing tabs and so forth.
Fortunately Firefox has quite a few touchpad friendly shortcuts.
CTRL + LEFT CLICK » open link in a new tab
CTRL + T » open new tab
CTRL + W » close tab
CTRL + N » open new window
CTRL + SHIFT + W » close window
CTRL + TAB » switch to next tab
CTRL + SHIFT + TAB » switch to previous tab
ALT + LEFT » back
ALT + RIGHT » forward
CTRL + L » select address bar
CTRL + K » select search bar
Mastering
all those shortcuts makes for a smooth and fast browsing experience. If
you really want to go hardcore press F7 to bring up a small cursor. Now
you'll barely need the touchpad at all. Makes browsing a bit tedious, i
wouldn't recommend it.
Very useful on the small screen is the
zoom feature. Firefox 3 zooms the whole page, keeping the layout 1:1,
which can lead to garbled images. Most of the time it's better to just
zoom the text, you can toggle this behaviour with browser.zoom.full in
about:config. Everything is saved for each domain individually, making
it really nice to customize your preferred font size.
CTRL + + » Zoom In
CTRL + - » Zoom Out
CTRL + 0 » Default
One last thing, enter about:robots in the address bar.
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