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If you've bookmarked a Web page, when you visit it next, you can have Firefox load it in the Sidebar, rather than in your main browser area. To do that, right-click the bookmark that you want to load in the Sidebar, select Properties, check the box marked "Load this bookmark in the sidebar," then click OK. When you then select the bookmark to go to the site, the site will load in the Sidebar. You may need to expand the width of the sidebar by dragging the right edge, to get the site to display properly.

You can use keywords to instantly jump to any site you've bookmarked.

To do it, after you bookmark a site, right-click on the bookmark, select Properties, type in a short keyword (or anything you want even 123) in the keyword field and click OK. Now, to visit the site, type in the keyword in Firefox's address bar, and you'll jump straight to the site.

Easy!

Want to power up Firefox's search box? It's easy to create your own search engine, so that you can rifle through any site from right within Firefox. Adding a search engine that has already been written, of course, is easy. Click the down arrow to the left of the search box, select "Manage Search Engines," then click the "Get more search engines" link at the bottom of the screen. From the Web site that appears, click the search engine you want to install, and you're done.

Firefox keyboard shortcuts. I wouldn't expect you to learn these off by heart straight away but believe me there handy to know. Here are some of the most comon and my favourites:

Spacebar (page down)

Shift-Spacebar (page up)

Ctrl+F (find)

Alt-N (find next)

Ctrl+D (bookmark page)

Ctrl+T (new tab)

Ctrl+K (go to search box)

Lets say you are playing a multiplayer online game like warcraft or counter strike and you keep checking for servers on private gaming sites and other forums using firefox. Depending on the amount of ram and graphic settings of your system and the amount of graphic details in the game a little bit of more RAM is always welcome. So the trick I am about to share transfers all the data from the RAM to the HDD till Firefox remains minimized. Here is how to do it.

Step 1: Type about:config into your location bar and hit Enter.

This trick will restrict the amount of RAM which is dedicated Firefox and equivalent to the number of windows you have open in Firefox. Here is how to do it.

Step 1: Type about:config into your location bar and hit Enter.

Step 2: In about:config, right-click on the new page and select New | Integer.

Step 3: In the pop-up window, type in browser.cache.memory.capacity.

From every browser a specified or default number of connections known as pipelines go out to Web servers to download a page. By increasing this you can experience a slight increase in your browsing speed but it can increase load on servers if you're too greedy. If you think that's not your problem, think again as many sites (and rightly so) are banning users that have several pipelines above the default specifications. The difference in speeds of browsers with default and enchanced number of pipelines is sufficiently high when viewing graphic-heavy sites.

Even though Firefox is the most customizeable web broswer one could get for free there is always scope to tweak it and improve on it constantly. Here I would tell you how to reduce its memory footprint so it occupies less memory at a time.

Step 1: Type about:config into your location bar and hit Enter.

Step 2: In about:config, type browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers.

Step 3: Double-click and change the -1 setting to 0 and hit Enter.

Step 4: Restart your browser.

As most of you may have noticed by now that the default search engine in internet explorer is MSN Live Search. I am sure there will be some users ( in fact most users) who would want to use some other search engine like say google, yahoo, ask,etc. Here is how you can change that default search engine.

Sometimes you just need to create a simple presentation, but the only tool is an internet browser. Not a problem at all because you can use Google documents page where you can create rich text documents, spreadsheets and even presentations.