Friday, May 16, 2008

Firefox: Fantastically Fantastic


I can't say enough good things about Mozilla's Firefox. In fact, I enjoy and use both Firefox and Thunderbird; Mozilla's seemingly limitlessly customizable web-browser and e-mail client. In the coming posts, I will likely do small features on certain aspects or neat tricks I enjoy about both of them. For, now... I've got one to share with you that's easy and a time-saver.

Did you know that you can quickly and easily open your favorite or most-frequented websites without having to type in the entire URL or selecting its bookmark? Again, this is a really simple, little-known feature (among the many) that Firefox affords its users! If you're interested, I'll give you a step-by-step (there are only two) example:

Say you want to make it easy to get to Gmail. Firstly, you'd make a bookmark of the sign-in page and, from there, you would go into your Bookmarks drop-down option at the top of your Firefox browser.

1.) Hovering your cursor over the bookmark for Gmail, you right-click on it and select 'Properties.'
2.) In the field named 'keywords,' you enter your shortcut for the site. Let's say you chose the letter 'g' to represent Gmail. Click OK and you're done!

Then, to make use of your handy-dandy shortcut for Gmail, in any tab, in the URL field, type the letter 'g' and press . Viola! Gmail begins to load, automagically!


Hope this little tip makes things a bit more fun and streamlined for you! More to come, in the future. Have a great weekend!

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