FIrefox Tips

Here's a tip that you /prog/ers probably haven't ever thought of: Shift + Scroll for more fine-grained scrolling power. Ever scroll past something and you only need to scroll up a tiny bit to see that line of text? Shift + Scroll is the guy you want. Give it a try some time.

Post your favorite Firefox tips here.

I meant to say Alt + Scroll. My bad.

about:config, enable HTTP pipelining. Whoever idiot decided not to enable that by default needs to get scolded.

Ctrl-drag a tab to duplicate it.

>>3
They tried it in the 3.0 beta, I believe, but it broke several sites.

DID YOU KNOW
...that Firefox caps the maximum number of connections in a header file and that about:config can't override it?  A lot of lol digg users trying to optimize their firefox don't.

Did you know that you can type sage into the email field for more fine-grained posting power

>>5
Who the fuck cares. Or add rule-based pipelining.

>>7
Win

More protips: In about:config, set image.animation_mode to once or never for less annoyance with shitty animations while you read. Edit keyword.url to your liking; I prefer regular Google than "I'm feeling lazy" there. On Lunix, you can get rid of the idiotic standard behaviour (selection copies text, middle-click opens link from clipboard, backspace doesn't go backwards, etc.) in there too.

middle-click opens link from clipboard
Gah, I hate that shit. RAGE at X windows

The stupid usage of mouse buttons is one of my gripes with X applications, so is the obnoxious behaviour of the X clipboard (in particular, the concept of owning the contents and thus losing them when the process dies). X people must really hate the clipboard. You close a process and lose its contents; accidentally select any piece of shit and lose its contents, accidentally click right trying to see if there's any context menu and blargh, 100 KB of erotic story from clipboard pasted on the terminal right in front of everyone, etc.

>>10
FUCK, I hate pasting my erotic stories to my pals in IRC. They always make fun of me and say that I will never have a girlfriend because I like to read erotic anime stories. What would the Sussman think of me?

>>10
The selection buffer isn't the same thing as the clipboard (X has both), and right-clicking to paste is behavior I've only seen in Windows' putty, not in actual X environments.

>>8
I usually just press escape twice to stop any running animations in the current tab.

www.opera.com

>>12
Windows default terminal program pastes on right mouse click as well.

>>15
Mine doesn't. Just pops up a menu.

Right click or middle click, whatever, it's stupid

Lain.