This can come in handy for those who want to optimize FireFox! :

But look under the hood, and there are a bunch of hidden (and some not-so-secret) tips and tricks available that will crank Firefox up and pimp your browser. Make it faster, cooler, more efficient. Get to be a Jedi master with the following cool Firefox tricks. 

• 1) More screen space. Make your icons small. Go to View – Toolbars – Customize and check the �Use small icons� box.

• 2) Smart keywords. If there�s a search you use a lot (let�s say IMDB.com�s people search), this is an awesome tool that not many people use. Right-click on the search box, select �Add a Keyword for this search�, give the keyword a name and an easy-to-type and easy-to-remember shortcut name (let�s say �actor�) and save it. Now, when you want to do an actor search, go to Firefox�s address bar, type �actor� and the name of the actor and press return. Instant search! You can do this with any search box.

• 3) Keyboard shortcuts. This is where you become a real Jedi. It just takes a little while to learn these, but once you do, your browsing will be super fast. Here are some of the most common:

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) Ctrl+L (go to address bar) Ctrl+= (increase text size) Ctrl+- (decrease text size) Ctrl-W (close tab) F5 (reload) Alt-Home (go to home page)

• 4) Auto-complete. This is another keyboard shortcut, but it�s not commonly known and very useful. Go to the address bar (Control-L) and type the name of the site without the �www� or the �.com�. Let�s say �google�. Then press Control-Enter, and it will automatically fill in the �www� and the �.com� and take you there – like magic! For .net addresses, press Shift-Enter, and for .org addresses, press Control-Shift-Enter.

• 5) Tab navigation. Instead of using the mouse to select different tabs that you have open, use the keyboard. Here are the shortcuts:

Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward among tabs) Ctrl+Shift+Tab (rotate to the previous tab) Ctrl+1-9 (choose a number to jump to a specific tab)

• 6) Mouse shortcuts. Sometimes you�re already using your mouse and it�s easier to use a mouse shortcut than to go back to the keyboard. Master these cool ones:

Middle click on link (opens in new tab) Shift-scroll down (previous page) Shift-scroll up (next page) Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size) Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size) Middle click on a tab (closes tab)

• 7) Delete items from address bar history. Firefox�s ability to automatically show previous URLs you�ve visited, as you type, in the address bar�s drop-down history menu is very cool. But sometimes you just don�t want those URLs to show up (I won�t ask why). Go to the address bar (Ctrl-L), start typing an address, and the drop-down menu will appear with the URLs of pages you�ve visited with those letters in them. Use the down-arrow to go down to an address you want to delete, and press the Delete key to make it disappear.

• 8)User chrome. If you really want to trick out your Firefox, you�ll want to create a UserChrome.css file and customize your browser. It�s a bit complicated to get into here, but check out this tutorial.

• 9) Create a user.js file. Another way to customize Firefox, creating a user.js file can really speed up your browsing. You�ll need to create a text file named user.js in your profile folder (see this to find out where the profile folder is) and see this example user.js file that you can modify. Created by techlifeweb.com, this example explains some of the things you can do in its comments.

• 10) about:config. The true power user�s tool, about.config isn�t something to mess with if you don�t know what a setting does. You can get to the main configuration screen by putting about:config in the browser�s address bar. See Mozillazine�s about:config tips and screenshots.

Enjoy Guys! and don’t forget to post your comments. � MyTricksTime.com

Google Chrome is very good and Fast Web Browser.It is generally use up by large number of peoples for surfing the Web.Seeing that we thought why not make our web Experience smarter and easier on Google Chrome by using keyboard shortcuts.We collected some of the mostly use keyboard shortcut’s which will make your Web Surfing easier through Google chrome.Below are some of Keyboard Shortcut’s for Google chrome web Browser.

Key Board Shortcut’s


Ctrl+G — > Finds the next instance of your search term (Ctrl+F!) Ctrl+Shift+G finds the previous instance

Ctrl+U –> View the source of your current page

Ctrl+R –> The same as F5 (might be faster for some people to type)

Ctrl+1(2, 3, 4, etc) –> Switch to the tab designated by the number (from the left)

Ctrl+Shift+T –> Re-open the most recently closed tab


Alt+F or Alt+E –> Open the Wrench (Tools) menu (you can then use the arrow keys to navigate it…)

Ctrl+Shift+B –> Toggles the Bookmarks Bar on and off

Ctrl+D –> Bookmark your current Web page

Ctrl+Shift+D –> Bookmarks all of your open Web pages in one folder

Ctrl+J –> Opens the Downloads tab

Shift+Esc –> Opens the ‘Task Manager’, which you can use to close errant tabs/processes

Ctrl+Shift+J –> Opens the Chrome Developer Tools (which are surprisingly good!)

Ctrl+L –> Selects your current page’s URL (and puts the cursor in the address bar)

Ctrl+Backspace –> Deletes one word/phrase to the left of your cursor in the address bar

If we had forgotten any point than do tell us by commenting below.Enjoy Guys! � MyTricksTime.com