For the back-to-school season, Mozilla has created a Campus Edition of Firefox bundled with three pre-installed plugins aimed at students. FoxyTunes lets you control your music player within the browser. Zotero collects and manages research citations. StumbleUpon introduces you to …[Continue]
Resizing Firefox Popup Windows
Although it is my favorite browser, when left in its default configuration, Firefox often mangles the size of popup windows (so that some of the content is hidden) and disables manual resizing of the offending window. To change this, type …[Continue]
Browser Spell Check
Many browsers offer dynamic as-you-type spell check on any text you enter. In Firefox 2.0, misspellings are underlined in red, and right-clicking on them will pop-up suggestions. In Safari, dynamic spell checking can be activated by placing your cursor in …[Continue]
Scroll Wheel Clicking
Clicking on a link with the scroll wheel (or middle button) of your mouse will open the link in a new tab in both Firefox and Internet Explorer 7. In the same browsers, a click of the scroll wheel (or …[Continue]
Open Links in New Window
When surfing the Web from a list of links, it is often handy to view each site in a new tab or browser window. Most browsers let you specify this behavior as the default. In Firefox, go to Tools/Options/Tabs. In …[Continue]
Wheel Mouse Navigation
If you have a wheel mouse, here’s a handy browser navigation tip. Hold down the Shift key and scroll the nav wheel backwards to return to your previous web page. Scroll two clicks, and you are two pages back in …[Continue]
Default Browser Search Engine
Many people do not realize that their browser address bar can act as a search engine. For example, instead of a URL, you can enter a search query, such as “Who is Barbara Feldman?” Here are instructions from Google on …[Continue]
Optimizing Firefox
The free Firefox browser with tabbed browsing, and integrated Google search is my browser of choice because it is so extensible. To get a feel for what can be done with it, peruse Peter Butler’s ten favorite Firefox plugins in …[Continue]