Note: For this tweak I recommend using the ChromEdit Plus extension. With Firefox 2 came the options of changing where your close tab buttons were displayed along with tab-overflow and the List All Tabs buttons. By default the List All Tabs Button is on the right side of the tab bar. You can either move it to the left side of your tab bar or remove the button altogether. Moving The Button – To change the location of the List All Tabs button, use the ChromEdit Plus extension. Add these lines to your userChrome.css file located in your profile folder:…

Note: For this tweak I recommend using the ChromEdit Plus and about:config extensions. Restoring the “Find” Buttons For some odd reason in Firefox 2, the Quick Find Bar (activated via “/”) does not display the “Find Next” or “Find Previous” buttons. To restore these buttons, simply add this line to your userChrome.css file located in your profile folder /* Add Next/Previous Buttons to Quick Find Bar */ #FindToolbar > * {display: -moz-box; } When you are done editing your userChrome.css file, close and restart Firefox and the changes should take effect right away. Increase the Quick Find Bar Latency By…

Note: For this tweak I recommend using the ChromEdit Plus extension. The Firefox sidebar can display bookmarks, history and other content. Some users may prefer to have the sidebar displayed on the right side of the screen instead of the left. Simply add these lines to your userChrome.css file located in your profile folder: /* Display the sidebar in opposite side */ #browser { -moz-box-direction: reverse; } When you are done editing your userChrome.css file, close and restart Firefox and the changes should take effect right away. Source:Mozilla Links Permalink

Note: For this tweak I recommend using the ChromEdit Plus This tweak allows you to change the color of the progress bar in your status bar. Simply add these lines to your userChrome.css file located in your profile folder: /* Change the progress bar color */ .progress-bar { -moz-appearance: none !important; background-color: #660000 !important; } To specify the color, choose your color here and note the six-digit hex code. Within the code you have copied from above to your userChrome.css file, replace ‘660000’ with the six-digit hex code for the color you have chosen. Make sure you include the ‘#’…

At the end of last year I mentioned in my Help with Minefield Error post I was getting odd error messages when I exited Minefield.  I got a response in the thread I had posted over on Firefox Builds. Someone suggested disabling/removing the talkback extension has they too were getting similar problems with the newer version (3.0a2pre).  After disabling the extension, I closed Minefield, restarted Minefield updated to the latest nightly build, closed and restarted Minefield to apply the update and then finally closed Minefield again.  No Windows error messages!  The only downside is I won’t be able to report…

A couple days ago I explained in the Bookmarks: Backing up and Recovering post how to recover your missing bookmarks if Firefox ‘eats’ them. But I didn’t give much thought to if something major were to go wrong, until Freesitebuilder left the following comment: “Great tip – I’ve lost my bookmarks twice when they simply disappeared from Firefox, and a third time with a HDD failure.” Good point! Five days worth of backed-up bookmarks aren’t going to do you much good if your hard drive is toast! Now, if you are doing regular system back-ups to CD-R, Tape Drive or…

Updated 04/18/2011 – Added information for Firefox 4 and Restore feature added with Firefox 3.5. Also added directions for manual backup/restore. While I have never had this happen to me personally, I know several folks who have started up their Firefox to discover all or some of their bookmarks are gone. If this happens to you…Don’t panic! All is not lost! A cool feature with Firefox is it keeps a back-up of your bookmarks for the past five days (Firefox 4 upto 10 days). Recovering your bookmarks is very easy: From the Bookmarks Menu select Organize Bookmarks… (Firefox 4: Show…

I am taking a quick break from my Blog Vacation to add a couple helpful entries. Earlier this week I received a frantic e-mail from a family member saying they couldn’t their Firefox to start and attached a screenshot of this error message: “Could not initialize the browser’s security component. The most likely cause is problems with files in your browser’s profile directory. Please check that this directory has no read/write restrictions and your hard disk is not full or close to full. It is recommended that you exit the browser and fix the problem. If you continue to use…