Address Bar Commands

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The 7 hidden pages within your Firefox browser, via address bar commands:

about:

A simple prompt without any parameter will display the Mozilla “about” information. Since it’s accessible from the top menus as well, it’s not quite a hidden feature.

about:buildconfig

Obviously, it will show the build platform configuration and parameters

about:cache

Will display info and statistics regarding your disk’s cache, including the name of your cache’s directory and a list of the entries you can find there. By default, Firefox doesn’t allow you to view the cached webpages, so this can be an useful option.

about:config

Oh look, many many info. Indeed, it’s the most complex and meaningful of them all. Careful on what you plan to change here, your browser won’t run properly after if you play with the wrong things.

about:plugins

Of course, what is Firefox without it’s powerful extensions? This option will display detailed information about all the plugins installed for Mozilla Firefox.

about:credits

It’s time to give the credit to whoever deserves it. There’s an alphabetically sorted list of all the people that gave their contribution to the development of Firefox.

about:Mozilla

This is a weird thing. It will display the so-called “Book of Mozilla”. Something similar was present in Netscape too. There’s actually no real book although the quotations might give you that impression.


Have fun browsing through your browser’s internal features.

What? 'Not Firefox-ing?'
Do yourself a favour and Download Firefox.

[Bent_Bladi]

wow! useful stuff... shukran piccolomondo

[piccolomondo]

wow! useful stuff... shukran piccolomondo

3afwan.
So, are you enjoying a better web experience with Firefox?
'Cause there are N other useful commands, for example:

dict love

that will point you to the dictionay definition of "love".

[Bent_Bladi]

lol! actually, i'm really used to IE, but when it's working up I use firefox

[eyad]

thank youuuuuuuuuuuu!!!
great info , i tried'em as well .. pretty cool

[piccolomondo]

Most of these tricks should work in Internet Explorer, only a few work in Opera (unfortunately). If you’re a Flock fan, everything should work as well:

Let’s try:

• ALT+HOME: This shortcut will take you back to the browsers default homepage.
• Changing Your Default Homepage: Drag a link from the address bar over the Home button. Release the mouse and you’ll be asked if you want to reset your homepage.
• ALT+D: This jumps you straight into the address bar and allows you to either type in a new address or modify the address that’s already there.
• ALT+Back Arrow/ALT+Forward Arrow: The essential Back/Forward browsing commands. Don’t leave home without them.
• CTRL+T: Open up a new tab in your browser window. It’ll start up with the cursor in the address bar waiting on your command. Literally.
• CTRL+TAB: Cycles through the various tabs you have open in FireFox. Bonus points for using CTRL+SHIFT+TAB to cycle backwards! Got too many tabs open? Then you might need…
• CTRL+W: Closes the current tab you’re looking at. Be careful, closing the last tab shuts down FireFox!
• Preloading Pages: I like to read stuff right through to the end before reading material that’s been linked to in the post. To have all the material ready and waiting, I middle click each of the links as I browse and they load up in new tabs while I’m reading.
• Bookmarking: If you’re old school and insist on bookmarking, CTRL+D will bookmark the page you’re on. Actually, I’m using the Del.icio.us Bookmarks extension for FireFox and CTRL+D brings up a new bookmark in that too! Hooray!

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The browser is the most used application on anyone’s computer and with the onslaught of hundreds (if not thousands) of new web applications, the time spent in said browsers will only increase.

Some easy-access tools for becoming a browser power-user

or

How the use of keyboard shortcuts (or hot keys) really did boost productivity and reduce significantly the amount of time needed to complete tasks over a period of time:

Download the tool that fits your setup best… hopefully it will help you in some way!

Browser Shortcut Cheat Sheet
Version 1.1 - 1/23/2007 - ©2007 Sabotage Media, LLC
Available for free from TheAppleBlog.com

PDF - 80KB

PNG - 52KB

Enjoy!