Some web sites may display text in fonts that are difficult to read,
and other sites may rely on the browser’s default fonts.  You can set
your default fonts by going to  Edit >Preferences, selecting the
Content panel, and selecting a default font and size in the
Fonts & Colors section.

You can specify default fonts for different styles, including serif,
sans-serif, and monospace by clicking the Advanced button.
However, many web pages specify their own fonts, so your choices
will have no effect on such pages.  To override the fonts defined by
such pages, uncheck the Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead
of my selections above optionpreference.

Note that some web pages may display incorrectly depending on your
choice of a default font.

Setting a Minimum Font Size

Some web sites may display text which is too small to read
comfortably.  To make such pages easier to read, you can set a minimum
font size. On web pages that try to display text smaller than this
size, Firefox will enlarge the text to your chosen size.

To set a minimum font size, go to  Edit  > Preferences, select the
Content panel, and click the Advanced button in the
Fonts & Colors section.  You can specify a minimum font
size from the dropdown menu.

Note that some web pages may display incorrectly depending on your
choice of a minimum font size.

Resizing Page Text

You can temporarily change the size of text on any web page in the
View > Text Size menu.  The new
size will remain in effect until you close your browser window or
tab, even if you navigate to a different web site.

The following keyboard shortcuts control text size:

*     Press CtrlCmd++ to
increase the text size.  This zooms the text to 120% of its original
size, then 150%, 200%, 300%, 450%, 675%, 1013%, and 1519%.

*     Press CtrlCmd+- to
decrease the text size.  This zooms the text to 90% of its original
size, then 50%, 33%, 22%, 15%, 10%, 7%, 4%, 3%, 2%, and 1%.

*     Press CtrlCmd+0 to reset the text size to the web
page’s default size.

Note that some web pages may display incorrectly if you increase or
decrease the text size.

Overriding Page Colors

Some web sites may display text and background colors that are
difficult to read, and other sites may rely on the browser’s default
colors.  You can set your default colors by going to Edit >  Preferences,
selecting the Content panel, and clicking the Colors
button in the Fonts & Colors section.  You can set
default text and background colors, as well as default colors for
visited and unvisited hyperlinks.  You can also specify whether
hyperlinks should be underlined.

However, many web pages set their own colors, so your choices will
have no effect.  To override the colors defined by web pages, uncheck
the Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my
selections above preference.

Using a High Contrast Theme

Firefox automatically detects if you are using a High
Contrast theme and displays everything in your high contrast color
scheme.  This overrides all other other browser or web page
settings, and it affects the Firefox interface itself (all
menus, windows, and dialog boxes) and the content of any web page
you visit.

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1. Click on Tools
2. Then click on Options
3. Go to the Privacy Tab
4. Then at the bottom of the window click on Settings
5. Then check the box beside “Clear Private data when FireFox Closes”
6. Make sure saved passwords and cookies are unchecked
7. Click on OK

To delete the stored passwords (not all) follow these steps :

1. Tools
2. Options
3. Privacy Tab
4. Password Tab
5. View Saved Passwords
6. Click on the Password you want to remove
7. Click on Remove

1. Open Firefox
2. In the address bar enter: about:config
3. Copy and paste this into the filter line…

browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing

4.  Change the value from true to false

A cookie is a file created by an Internet site to store information on your
computer, such as your preferences when visiting that site. When you visit a site
that uses cookies, the site might ask Firefox to place one or more cookies
on your hard disk.

Later, when you return to the site, Firefox sends back the cookies that
belong to the site. This allows the site to present you with information customized
to fit your needs.

Cookies can also store personally identifiable information. Personally identifiable
information is information that can be used to identify or contact you, such as
your name, e-mail address, home or work address, or telephone number. However, a
web site only has access to the personal information that you provide. For
example, a web site cannot determine your e-mail address unless you provide it. Also,
a web site cannot gain access to other information on your computer.

When you use the default cookie settings, this activity is invisible to you,
and you won’t know when a web site is setting a cookie or when Firefox
is sending a web site its cookie. However, you can set your cookies
optionspreferences so that you will be asked before a cookie is set. You can also
restrict the lifetime of cookies to your current Firefox session.

Setting Up Cookie Rules

By default Firefox accepts all cookies, including cookies which
would allow a site to recognize you effectively forever. If this doesn’t suit
you, you can tell Firefox to delete all cookies when you close
Firefox:

1.   Select  Edit  > Preferences and open the Privacy panel.

2.   Select the I close Firefox  preference from the
Keep until menu.

If you want to grant sites you trust the ability to store cookies permanently
(e.g., to allow you to log in automatically to a site), click Exceptions..., enter the site address,
and click Allow.

All the Settings

These are the  preferences that affect how cookies are managed by
Firefox:

Accept cookies from sites

If you don’t want any sites to store cookies on your computer, uncheck
this  preference. Note that some sites may not work properly when
cookies are disabled. If you want to grant certain sites the ability to
store cookies, open the Cookies Exceptions
window by clicking Exceptions…, enter the site address, and click
Allow or Allow for Session.

Keep until

*     they expire

If this  preference is selected, each cookie will be removed when the
site that set it has determined the cookie should expire.

*     I close Firefox

If this  preference is selected, cookies will be removed when you
restart Firefox.  Web sites requiring the use of cookies will
still work, but if you restart Firefox, the web site will think
that you logged into the site for the first time again.

*     ask me every time

Display an alert every time a web site tries to store a cookie asking you
if you want that cookie stored.

Accepting and Blocking Cookies

If you’ve chosen ask me every time from the Keep until
menu, you’ll see a dialog whenever a site tries to store a cookie on your
computer providing the following options:

Allow

To allow this particular cookie, just click Allow. Use this if
you trust the site.

Allow for Session

If you want to allow this cookie for now, but have it deleted when you
exit Firefox, click Allow for Session. Use this if the
site doesn’t work without cookies, but you don’t want to have a permanent   cookie stored for it.

Deny

If you don’t want this cookie to be stored, click Deny. Use this
if you don’t trust the site or suspect that it’s compromising your privacy.

Use my choice for all cookies from this site

Select this checkbox before clicking any of the buttons if you want
Firefox to remember your decision and not ask again. The site will
be added to the Cookie Exceptions window,
where you can revert your choice should you wish to do so later.

The Cookies Exceptions Window

Access this window by clicking the Exceptions… button in cookies
preferences. Here you can make exceptions from your general cookies
preferences for specific sites. Using exceptions, you can allow all cookies,
reject all cookies, or allow all cookies but have them deleted when you exit
Firefox, regardless of your other cookie settings.

To add a site to this list, simply type the site’s domain name in the field
labeled Address of web site. Then click Block to reject
cookies from the site, click Allow to allow cookies from the site,
or click Allow for Session to allow cookies from the site but have
them deleted when you exit Firefox.

To remove a site from this list, select it and click Remove Site. To
clear the list completely, click Remove All Sites. This will clear
the exceptions list so your general cookies optionspreferences apply.

The View Cookies Window

Use the View Cookies window to view and remove cookies. To access it,
click the View Cookies button in cookies  preferences.

This window lists all cookies currently stored on your
computer, grouped by site. You can expand the sites and select a cookie to
display more information about it. You can also search for a site or a cookie
name by typing in the search bar.

To remove a cookie from the list, select it and click Remove Cookie.
To remove a site’s cookies, select the site and click Remove
Cookie(s). To wipe all cookies, click Remove All Cookies.

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1. Click Tools and select Downloads.

2. Click the Clean Up button at the bottom of the Downloads window.

Disable the Download history

1. Click Tools and select Options.

2. Select Privacy from the top   Options window.

3. In the History section, uncheck the Remember what I’ve downloaded checkbox.

4. Click the OK button.

1. Open Firefox 2.0
2. In the address bar enter: about:config
3. Double-click on browser.tabs.tabMinWidth and change the value to 0

You are ready to go

      Command
Shortcut

      Navigation

      Back

AltOpt+Left Arrow

Backspace

AltOpt+Left Arrow

CtrlCmd+[

CtrlCmd+[

CtrlCmd+Left Arrow

Delete

      Forward

AltOpt+Right Arrow

Shift+Backspace

AltOpt+Right Arrow

CtrlCmd+]

CtrlCmd+]

CtrlCmd+Right Arrow

Shift+Delete

      Home
AltOpt+Home

      Open File
CtrlCmd+O

      Reload
F5

CtrlCmd+R

      Reload (override cache)
CtrlCmd+F5

CtrlCmd+Shift+R

      Stop
CtrlCmd+.

Esc

      Current Page

      Go to Bottom of Page
End

Go to Top of Page
Home

      Move to Next Frame
F6

      Move to Previous Frame
Shift+F6

      Page Info
CtrlCmd+I

      Page Source
CtrlCmd+U

      Print
CtrlCmd+P

Save Page As
CtrlCmd+S

      Text Size: Decrease
CtrlCmd+-

Text Size: Increase
CtrlCmd++

      Text Size: Restore
CtrlCmd+0

      Editing

      Copy
CtrlCmd+C

      Cut
CtrlCmd+X

      Delete
Delete

      Paste
CtrlCmd+V

      Redo
CtrlCmd+Y
CtrlCmd+Shift+Z

      Select All
CtrlCmd+A

Undo
CtrlCmd+Z

      Search

      Find
CtrlCmd+F

Find Again
F3

CtrlCmd+G

      Find As You Type Link
‘

Find As You Type Text
/

      Find Previous
Shift+F3

      Web Search
CtrlCmd+K

CtrlCmd+E

CtrlCmd+J

      Windows & Tabs

      Close Tab
CtrlCmd+W

Ctrl+F4

      Close Window
CtrlCmd+Shift+W

AltOpt+F4

      Move Tab Left (when tab is focused)
CtrlCmd+Left Arrow

CtrlCmd+Up Arrow

      Move Tab Right (when tab is focused)
CtrlCmd+Right Arrow

CtrlCmd+Down Arrow

Move Tab to Beginning (when tab is focused)
CtrlCmd+Home

      Move Tab to End (when tab is focused)
CtrlCmd+End

      New Tab
CtrlCmd+T

      New Window
CtrlCmd+N

      Next Tab
Ctrl+Tab

CtrlCmd+AltOpt+Right Arrow

Ctrl+Page Down

      Open Address in New Tab
AltOpt+EnterReturn

      Previous Tab
Ctrl+Shift+Tab

CtrlCmd+AltOpt+Left Arrow

Ctrl+Page Up

Restore Recently Closed Tab
CtrlCmd+Shift+T

Select Tab (1 to
CtrlCmdAltOpt+(1 to

      Select Last Tab
CtrlCmdAltOpt+9

      Tools

      Bookmark All Tabs
CtrlCmd+Shift+D

      Bookmark This Page
CtrlCmd+D

      Bookmarks
CtrlCmd+B

CtrlCmd+I

      Caret Browsing
F7

      Downloads
CtrlCmd+J
CtrlCmd+Y

  History
CtrlCmd+H
CtrlCmd+Shift+H

      Clear Private Data
CtrlCmd+Shift+Del

      Miscellaneous

Complete .com Address
CtrlCmd+EnterReturn

Complete .net Address
Shift+EnterReturn

      Complete .org Address
CtrlCmd+Shift+EnterReturn

      Delete Selected Autocomplete Entry
Del
Shift+Del

      Full Screen
F11

Select Location Bar
AltOpt+D

F6

CtrlCmd+L

      Select or Manage Search Engines

(when Search Bar is focused)
AltOpt+Up Arrow

AltOpt+Down Arrow

F4

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1. Unzip/Unrar the downloaded folder
2. Open Firefox
3. Click on Tools
4. Then on Themes to open the themes window  (also open the folder where the theme is)
5. Just drag and drop the jar file into the theme window
6. Click on OK when Firefox asks you if you want to install the theme
7. Restart firefox

Open the themes window again >  Choose the theme and click on “Use Theme”.

Restart firefox again to see the new theme

      Command
Shortcut

      Back

AltOpt+Scroll Down
Shift+Scroll Down

      Close Tab
Middle-click on Tab

      Decrease Text Size
Ctrl+Scroll up

      Forward

AltOpt+Scroll up
Shift+Scroll up

      Increase Text Size
Ctrl+Scroll down

      New Tab
Double-Click on Tab Bar

      Open in Background Tab
CtrlCmd+Left-click
Middle-click

      Open in Foreground Tab
CtrlCmd+Shift+Left-click
Shift+
Middle-click

      Open in New Window
Shift+Left-click

      Paste URL and Go
Middle-click on Tab

      Reload (override cache)
Shift+Reload button

      Save Page As
AltOpt+Left-click

      Scroll line by line

CtrlCmd+Scroll
AltOpt+Scroll

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*   Menu Bar: This is the toolbar that contains
the browser menus (File, Edit, Help, etc.).

*   Navigation Bar: This is the toolbar that contains the
Location Bar and the buttons used to navigate web sites.

*   Bookmarks Toolbar: This is the toolbar that contains
your Bookmarks Toolbar Folder bookmarks.

There are two basic methods of customizing the toolbars in
Firefox:

    *   Rearranging Toolbar Items

*   Hiding, Adding, and Removing
Toolbars

Rearranging Toolbar Items

To rearrange the items (icons, buttons, text boxes, etc.) on your toolbar,
right-clickpress Ctrl and
click on any part of the toolbar that is not a text box and select
Customize…. This will bring up the toolbar
customization dialog.

Drag and drop any items you want to and from the toolbars (excluding the menu items). You can also rearrange icons
already on the toolbars by dragging and dropping them wherever you wish. When
the toolbars and items are arranged the way you want them, click
Done.

Special Toolbar Items

There are a few special items that are available to you when customizing the
toolbar. They are as follows:

*   Separators: These allow you to separate items on the
toolbars with a small vertical line.

*   Spacers: These allow you to separate items on the
toolbars with a fixed-size space, usually around 20 pixels on most
themes.

*   Flexible spacers: Spacers allow you to separate items
on the toolbars with a space.  These spacers automatically resize to fill
all of the empty space on the toolbar.  These are good for positioning
items on the right of a toolbar.

Hiding, Adding, and Removing Toolbars

You can hide the Navigation Toolbar and the Bookmarks Toolbar if you do not
wish to keep them on your screen. You cannot hide the Menu
Bar because you cannot move the menu items (File, Edit, Help, etc.) to a
different toolbar, and they must stay on the screen at all times.

To show or hide a toolbar, select View > Toolbars
and click the name of the toolbar you want to show or hide.

To add a custom toolbar, select View > Toolbars
> Customize. Click on Add New Toolbar (in the bottom of the
dialog). This will give you a dialog to enter a name. If you enter a name and
click OK, your new toolbar appears. Now you can drag and drop items
to it. To remove a custom toolbar, drag and drop all the items from it, and
click Done. You can also hide a custom toolbar as described in the previous
paragraph.

Extensions

Extensions add new functionality to Firefox. They can add
anything from a toolbar button to a completely new feature. They allow the
application to be customized to fit the personal needs of each user while
minimizing the size and appearance of the application itself.

Themes

Themes modify Firefox’s appearance. They allow you to change the
look and feel of Firefox and personalize it to your tastes. A
theme can simply change button images, or it can change every piece of
Firefox appearance.

Getting and Installing Add-ons

You can download and install many add-ons from Firefox
Add-ons. Internet searches will find many other add-ons as well.

When you click on a link to install an add-on, Firefox displays a
dialog asking you for permission to install the add-on. You can choose to
allow the download and installation or to cancel the process.

Using the Add-ons manager

Add-ons are managed in the Add-ons manager. Select Tools > Add-ons to open it.

Updating Add-ons

By default, Firefox will periodically check when a new version for
one of your installed add-ons is available. If any are available, it will
prompt you at the next start to install any updates. You can change this
behavior in the Update tab
of the Advanced panel of OptionsPreferences.

You can check for updates manually by selecting the Extensions or
Themes panel and clicking the Find Updates button. If
updates are available, the Add-ons manager displays an Updates
panel, where you can choose the updates you want to install. Click the
Install Updates button to update those add-ons.
You need to restart Firefox for changes to take effect.

Disabling, Enabling, and Uninstalling Add-ons

If you want to get rid of an extension, you can either disable it temporarily,
so it is easily available should you want to enable it again in the future,
or uninstall it. Themes can only be uninstalled since all themes except the
current one are disabled automatically.

To disable or enable an extension, select the extension of your choice and
click its Disable or Enable button. To remove an add-on from
Firefox, select the add-on you wish to remove and click its
Uninstall button. You need to restart Firefox for changes to
take effect.

Further functionality

Further functionality such as Visit Home Page and About is
available by selecting the add-on of your choice, pressing
Ctrl and clicking onright-clicking the
add-on and selecting the respective item from the context menu.

Tasks specific to extensions or themes

Configuring Extensions

Extensions often provide a dialog to configure their functionality. To open
the optionspreferences dialog of an extension, select the Extensions panel, select
the extension of your choice, and click its OptionsPreferences button,
or simply double-click the extension.

Switching Themes

To switch between your installed themes, select the Themes panel, select the
theme of your choice, and click its Use Theme button. You need to
restart Firefox for changes to take effect.

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1. Load Firefox 2
2. In the address box type about:config
3. In the filter box type icon
4. Set browser.chrome.favicons to False
5. Set browser.chrome.site_icons to False
6. Quit and Restart the Browser

You are ready to go

4. Click the Show Password

5. Confirm your selection and your passwords will show.

To protect the passwords stored do this

-  In Security tab under Firefox Preferences, select Use a master password

- There you can set a  master password (recomended)

1. Open Filefox
2. Click the Tools Menu
3. Click Options
4. Click Downloads tab
5. Under Download Folder browse to the folder you want firefox to use or select Ask me where to save every file
6. Click OK

1. In firefox, type about:config in the URL box
2. In the filter box, paste this text:

browser.search.openintab

3. Change the value to true

Some web pages provide a rich interactive experience with Java™
applets.  However, some users that rely on keyboard navigation may
experience problems with some Java applets that automatically set
focus and do not provide a way to break out of the applet and
navigate to the rest of the web page.  If this is a problem for you,
you can disable Java by going to Edit  > Preferences, selecting the
Content and unchecking the Enable Java
preference.

Restricting JavaScript Behavior

You can turn off JavaScript entirely by going to  Edit  > Preferences,
selecting the Content panel, and unchecking Enable
JavaScript.  Some web pages rely on JavaScript and may not work
properly if JavaScript is disabled.

If you do not wish to disable JavaScript entirely, there are also a
number of advanced JavaScript settings to restrict the behavior of
scripts.  Immediately after the Enable JavaScript checkbox,
click the Advanced button to open the Advanced JavaScript
Settings window.  You can control whether scripts are allowed
to move or resize existing windows, raise or lower windows, disable or
replace context menus, hide the status bar, or change status bar
text.