So without wasting time, lets share the tricks:
1. Use Windows Classic (Windows 9x, Me, 2000) style menus
If you want Firefox menus to appear using Windows Classic theme, add following code in your userChrome.css file:
/* Windows Classic style menus in Firefox */2. Use desired background image for Firefox toolbars
menupopup, popup {
border: 2px solid !important;
-moz-border-top-colors: ThreeDLightShadow ThreeDHighlight;
-moz-border-right-colors: ThreeDDarkShadow ThreeDShadow;
-moz-border-bottom-colors: ThreeDDarkShadow ThreeDShadow;
-moz-border-left-colors: ThreeDLightShadow ThreeDHighlight;
padding: 1px !important;
}
menubar > menu[disabled="true"] {
border: 1px solid transparent !important;
}
menubar > menu[_moz-menuactive="true"] {
border-top: 1px solid ThreeDHighlight !important;
border-right: 1px solid ThreeDShadow !important;
border-bottom: 1px solid ThreeDShadow !important;
border-left: 1px solid ThreeDHighlight !important;
background-color: transparent !important;
color: MenuText !important;
}
menubar > menu[_moz-menuactive="true"][open="true"] {
border-top: 1px solid ThreeDShadow !important;
border-right: 1px solid ThreeDHighlight !important;
border-bottom: 1px solid ThreeDHighlight !important;
border-left: 1px solid ThreeDShadow !important;
}
You can put your desired image as Firefox toolbar background. Just add following code in your userChrome.css file:
/* Use desired image in Firefox toolbars */Replace image.gif text in above code with your image file name. Also put the image in same location as userChrome.css file.
menubar, toolbox, toolbar, .tabbrowser-tabs {
background-image: url("image.gif") !important;
background-color: none !important;
}
3. Don't use bold text on active tab
If you don't want to show title of active tab in bold, add following code in your userChrome.css file:
/* Active tab title not bold */4. Customize location and appearance of close button in tabs
tab[selected="true"] {
font-weight: normal !important;
}
To customize display and location of close tab button present in tab bar, you'll need to open about:config and edit the preference browser.tabs.closeButtons
You can set its value to any of following:
0 - Display close button on active tab only
1 - (Default) Display close buttons on all tabs
2 - Don't display close button at all
3 - Display single close button at the end of the tab bar
5. Remove desired items from main menu
If you want to remove any particular menu item from Firefox menu bar, you can add following code in your userChrome.css file:
/* Remove Help menu */Above code only hides Help menu. To remove other menu items, you can use following IDs in place of helpMenu in above code: file-menu, edit-menu, view-menu, go-menu, bookmarks-menu, tools-menu.
#helpMenu {
display: none !important;
}
6. Display bookmarks or history sidebars on right-side of Firefox window
To display bookmarks or history sidebars on right-side of Firefox window instead of left, add following code in your userChrome.css file:
/* Move sidebars to right-side */7. Change width of Search Box
hbox#browser { direction: rtl; }
hbox#browser > vbox { direction: ltr; }
By default, the Search box in Firefox toolbar is very small. To specify your desired width in pixels, add following code in your userChrome.css file:
/* Make Search box long */You can replace 300px with your desired size.
#search-container, #searchbar {
max-width: 300px !important;
width: 300px !important;
}
8 and 9. Change mouse cursor for JavaScript links and hyperlinks that open in a new window
This trick is my favorite. This trick changes the mouse pointer when you hover the cursor over hyperlinks that open in a new window and links that include a JavaScript command. It makes it easier to differentiate between links that open in same window, links that open in new window and JavaScript links.
Check out following topic for details:
[Tip] Show Different Cursors for JavaScript Links and Hyperlinks that Open in New Window
10. Make Firefox portable and run it from USB drive
You can visit following link to run Firefox from a removable media, such as USB stick:
Download Portable Version of Mozilla Firefox for USB Drives, No Need to Install
11. Speed up Firefox page rendering mechanism
By default, Firefox doesn't try to render a page for 250 milliseconds while it's waiting for website data. But you can change this functionality by using about:config and add new Integer preference nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0. Now Firefox will immediately start showing the web page.
12. Enable Pipelining feature
Pipelining is a feature which has been designed to improve page loading time. To enable it, open about:config and set following preferences:
network.http.pipelining (Set it to true to enable pipelining)
network.http.proxy.pipelining (Set it to true to enable pipelining to proxy server)
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests (Set it to 8 to have maximum of 8 pipelining requests at once. You can choose values between 1-8)
13. Specify browser cache folder location
When you open a website, Firefox stores the required data in its cache folder so that it can load the same web page faster when you open it again in future. If you want, you can specify a desired location to store the cache files. Open about:config and add new String preference browser.cache.disk.parent_directory. Now set its value to your desired location for example D:\Cache.
14. Specify Firefox memory cache usage
By default, Firefox dynamically utilizes the memory cache based on the amount of your system memory. To specify a fixed amount of memory cache, open about:config and add new Integer preference browser.cache.memory.capacity and set its value to any of following:
-1 : (Default) Set memory cache dynamically
0 : No memory cache
Numbers : Memory size in KB, For example 1024
You can also disable memory cache completely by setting the preference browser.cache.memory.enable to false.
15. Set an external program to view page source
When you want to view page source, Firefox opens it in its built-in page source viewer. If you want to view page source in your desired text editor program like Notepad, open about:config and set the preference view_source.editor.external to true. After that set the preference view_source.editor.path to full path of your desired program's EXE file for example, C:\Windows\Notepad.exe.
NOTE: Both files "userChrome.css" and "userContent.css" can be found in Firefox Profile folder. To know more about these files, please visit following link:
And "about:config" page can be accessed by typing about:config in Firefox addressbar and press Enter.
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