http://dryice.name/blog Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:01:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Why I don't think I need to say anything about why we want to use the keyboard over a mouse: All the geeks love it, and it's just more efficiency. However when we come to web visiting, it is not easy to just use our keyboard. Of cause we can use text ... http://dryice.name/blog/firefox/keyboard-navigation-in-firefox/ There is a nice tip about how to change the default source viewer to your favorite editor on http://ffextensionguru.wordpress.com. And if you want to keep the default view, but use your favorite editor in another time, you are not along: Just go and get the web developer plugin. And ... http://dryice.name/blog/firefox/extension/firefox-view-source-in-your-favorite-editor/ With extensions Firefox is really customizable. But writing extensions is not easy: We'll need to learn a lot of things like XUL. The good news is, with key config and grease monkey, easy scripting like in Emacs is possible. Grease Monkey allows several script to run when the current domain match a ... http://dryice.name/blog/firefox/just-like-emacs/ Well there are many context sensitive search plugin available for Firefox, I won't use most of them because my context menu is pretty long even after Menu Editor tweaks. So I'd use web search pro. The thing I like most about this plug in is that I can drag my ... http://dryice.name/blog/firefox/extension/conquer-plus-drag-de-go/ Tabed browsing is one of the most outstanding feauter from Firefox over IE. So here's how I switch tabs: Most of the time I just swith to the left or right tab. I use the f4kc_NextTab and f4kc_PrevTab from the functions 4 Key Config extension. When I have some more tabs, I ... http://dryice.name/blog/firefox/extension/tab-switching/ I've used Mouseless Browsing when I don't have a mouse present. However it is not good enough for dayly use because: I don't have a number pad and it's hard to type numbers as my hands will slightly move away from its main area. The default style makes the page a little ... http://dryice.name/blog/firefox/extension/mouseless-browsing/ There are many download related extensions. And I use several of them. The one I use most is download statusbar. It prevent the official download manager from showing and jsut use one line above the statusbar to show the download status. Basicly, that's all I need: How many time is left ... http://dryice.name/blog/firefox/extension/download/ address: http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=254 This extension allows us to re-bind keys to functions. Pretty useful for keyboard users like me. A side benefit is that you could learn lots of new key bindings and find out "why this key binding doesn't work?" — Mostly because the key is bind to another function in ... http://dryice.name/blog/firefox/extension/keyconfig/