I found a site with some good tweaks for Firefox 2.0.
You’re probably familiar the concept of “Extensions” for Firefox — these are small programs that you can download to add features to Firefox. As of Firefox 2.0, Extensions have a new name — “Add-ons.”
But, I’m not talking about extensions or add-ons now..
Firefox also has a huge number of configurable parameters. You can reach these by typing
about:config
in the address bar and pressing the Enter key.
This is the only way to change some of Firefox’s parameters. But, be careful if you decide to experiment. You can make changes such that Firefox will no longer start.
It’s much easier to learn about parameter tweaks from someone else. In this case, it’s the LifeHacker.com site has an article Geek to Live: Top Firefox 2 config tweaks that I found quite useful.
I quickly was able to change two new features of Firefox 2.0 that I did not like. First, Firefox 2.0 took the single, always in the same place button for closing tabs — and put the button on each tab. Second, when you open multiple tabs, Firefox 2.0 scales the tabs to fit more on the screen — but, once you get “too many” on the screen, it adds scroll buttons.
The combination of these two things makes closing a bunch of tabs into a pain.
With the tweaks from LifeHacker.com, I got back my tab-close button at the right of the tabs. I also was able to reduce the minimum tab size so that I’d have to have a lot more tabs open before the scroll buttons showed up.
Yea!
