The Great Geek Manual

There’s enormous flexibility built into Firefox. If you’re interested in really customizing your browsing experience, I suggest you get a copy of the ExtremeTech series’ “Hacking Firefox.” To get you started, though, here’s a list of the fifteen most basic Firefox shortcuts to making surfing just a little easier.

If you have any others that you use regularly, feel free to throw them out there.

1. A bookmarks Folder’s position can also be Dragged & Dropped but you must hold down the SHIFT key while Dragging.
2. After you’ve typed in a domain name, such as “Yahoo” press Ctrl and Enter together to automatically append “http://www.” and “.com” to that domain.
3. Clear your Download history to make the download manager more responsive: Tools | Options | Privacy
4. Double Clicking empty space on the Tab Bar will open a ‘New Tab’
5. Drag any link to the Download Manager Window to add & download the link.
6. Holding down the Ctrl key when you right click to “View Image” or “View Background Image” will open the image in a New Tab or New Window.
7. If you accidentally delete a bookmark and want to recover it, open the “Bookmarks Manager” and use Ctrl+Z, or Edit | Undo.
8. If you wish to remove an item from your Address Bar Drop down menu, Highlight it without clicking and use Shift+Delete.
9. To prevent a website from replacing/changing your rightclick context menu go to Tools > Options > Web Features then click the “advanced tab” and de-select “remove or replace context menus”.
10. To quickly find any word in a web page type /word it will highlight the word and press Ctrl+G to “Find Again” that word again.
11. To stop animated gifs from moving, press the ESC key.
12. Type about:cache?device=disk in your address bar to view/save items that you have in your firefox disk cache
13. Type about:cache?device=memory in your address bar to view/save items that you have in your Firefox memory cache
14. You can bookmark the current page by dragging the icon from the location bar to your Bookmarks folder. You can also drag it to the desktop to make an icon for that page.
15. You can work offline in Firefox just go to File > Work Offline. This means that you can browse your previously visited pages even when you’re offline this is a really cool feature but not many people who use it.