{"id":114,"date":"2004-03-31T11:16:58","date_gmt":"2004-03-31T17:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=114"},"modified":"2004-03-31T11:16:58","modified_gmt":"2004-03-31T17:16:58","slug":"firefox-customization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/114","title":{"rendered":"Firefox customization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/'>Firefox<\/a>, the lightweight browser based on <a href='http:\/\/www.mozilla.org'>Mozilla<\/a>, has been garnering quite a bit of <a href='http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/04\/03\/19\/12OPstrategic_1.html'>attention<\/a> lately.  I&#8217;ve been a Mozilla user since 0.5, but only use the browser component, so I thought I&#8217;d give Firefox a try.  It works great, and is very similar to IE (by design, no doubt).  But browsing is a habit of mine, and, like anybody else, I don&#8217;t like to change my habits.  Luckily, it was easy to change Firefox to fit my needs.  <\/p>\n<p>1.  Have the search bar respond to my shortcuts (i for google images, g for google search, q for qwestdex search).  This was no different than <a href='http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/writing\/mozillatips.shtml'>setting it up<\/a> for Mozilla.<\/p>\n<p>2.  Firefox by default saves form entries.  I don&#8217;t like that&#8211;it&#8217;s the paranoid in me.  Easily changed: go to Tools \/ Options \/ Privacy \/ Saved Form Information and deselect the &#8220;Save information&#8230;&#8221; checkbox.<\/p>\n<p>3.  Firefox blithely closes a window when there&#8217;s more than one tab open.  Wow!  I don&#8217;t like that at all&#8211;Mozilla gives me a warning and 99% of the time, I was aiming at the wrong window or had forgotten that I had multiple tabs open.  <a href='http:\/\/www.feedster.com'>Feedster<\/a> handed me <a href='http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0106327\/2004\/02\/23.html#a159'>this post<\/a> so I knew I wasn&#8217;t alone; a bit of searching on <a href='http:\/\/www.mozdev.org'>MozDev<\/a> turned up this handy extension: <a href='http:\/\/extensionroom.mozdev.org\/list.php\/Firefox\/tabs#tabwarning'>tab warning<\/a>.  Installing this was a snap, and now my browsing experience is back to what I expected.<\/p>\n<p>One problem I haven&#8217;t figured out how to fix: in Mozilla, when you open a link in a new tab, the new tab gains focus.  In Firefox, the old tab remains in front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox, the lightweight browser based on Mozilla, has been garnering quite a bit of attention lately. I&#8217;ve been a Mozilla user since 0.5, but only use the browser component, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}