While opening links in new tabs from within Firefox makes them open in the background (Setting in Edit → Preferences → Tabs), links clicked in other applications by default open in a foreground tab, and make Firefox steal the focus from the other app. about:config, set browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground to true
I had to edit ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini. Just move the line Default=1 to the desired profile block. (I first tried renaming the profiles using firefox -ProfileManager. Renaming the default profile to “old” and the “firefox3” profile to “default” had no effect.)
This has been a major annoyance so far: While Firefox lets you conveniently save all currently open tabs in a bookmark folder, when you later open all the bookmarks in that folder using the “Open all in Tabs” functionality, it replaces all the other tabs you have open at that moment. How idiotic is that. […]
I used to have trouble with the system wide installation of Firefox on Gutsy (though I don’t remember what the trouble was), so I installed it on a user basis in each user’s home directory and made all the relevant icons point to /home/user/firefox/firefox Because of this, I had to create a symlink in that […]
Some things I do to use the mouse less when browsing. Use Firefox shortcuts (just google for a list). I’ve installed the mouseless browsing (MLB) Firefox extension. Every link in a page gets tagged with an ID. Type that ID, then hit ENTER. (For me, this works using “Find as you type” in the Firefox […]