Fire Fox

This stuff is pertinent to Mozilla Firefox version 2

Custom Search Engine Items

Firefox has a Location area, where you type URLs, but it also has another drop down where you can choose different searches like Google, Wikipedia, etc. You can write a plug-in that adds whatever you want to that list to search over the sites you specify... using Google or their own search feature to search the site.

Just create the new file with Notepad or whatever, then put it in the search plugins directory. You'll have to restart Firefox to see the new item listed.

Location of search plugin directory\:

C:\Documents and Settings\yourusername\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxx.default\searchplugins

Name the new file with an extension of *.src ... if you want to associate an image with it's menu entry, make it have the same filename (not counting extension) as the SRC file.

<search name="Google Maps" method="GET" action="http://maps.google.com/maps" queryCharset="utf-8" > <input name="q" user> <input name="f" value="q"> <input name="hl" value="en"> </search>

About:Config Options to Note

browser.search.openintab = true: Browser searches open in a new tab, instead of in the current window.
browser.startup.page = 3: starts browser with what was open in the last session. Default is 1, where it just opens your home/start page.
network.prefetch-next key = false: keeps firefox from prefetching -- downloading pages that you did not explicitly click on. Prefetching generally saves time, but may put some pages in your browser history that you may not want there. A setting of "false" will turn off prefetching.
browser.cache.memory.capacity = a number (in KB): Uncertain if this works yet, but wanted to make a note of it.
layout.spellcheckDefault = 2: Turns on spell-checking in input fields as well as textareas.

UserChrome Hacks

#personal-bookmarks toolbarbutton[label="bookmarkname"] .toolbarbutton-text, #personal-bookmarks toolbarbutton[container="true"][label="foldername"] .toolbarbutton-text { display: none !important; }

To hide the name of a bookmark put it where it says /bookmarkname/, and to hide a folder's name put put it where it says /foldername/.