40 productivity tips for Firefox(Part 1)

1. Auto-complete websites

Go to the address bar (Control-L) and type the name of the site without the “www” or the “.com”. Press Control-Enter, and it will automatically fill in the “www” and the “.com” and take you there. For .net addresses, press Shift-Enter, and for .org addresses, press Control-Shift-Enter.

2. Turn your bookmarks into keywords

Right-click the bookmark and then select Properties. Put a short keyword in the keyword field, save it, and now you can type that keyword in the address bar and it will go to that bookmark.

3. Speed up your downloads

Download Manager Tweak Extension adds extra functionality to the existing Download Manager to help you download faster.

4. Search faster

To search with lightning speed just highlight the word or phrase with your mouse and drag the highlighted text into the search bar. Firefox will then automatically load up the search in a new tab, so you can stay informed faster.

5. All-in-one Sidebar

All-in-one Sidebar makes Firefox’s Sidebar more useful by displaying pretty much anything you might want: source code, downloads, add-ons, page info, entire web pages…

6. Stealther

Jealous of Safari’s Porn Mode - ahem, Private Browsing? Now you can have it, too, with Stealther.

7. Web Developer Toolbar

The name’s a clue: the Web Developer Toolbar adds a toolbar containing useful tools for web developers.

8. Instapaper

Grab Instapaper’s bookmarklet and you can store interesting things to read later. You can view pages without ads or other distractions, and it works on phones as well as PCs.

9. FireFTP

FireFTP is an excellent bit of charityware - it’s free, but donations are encouraged. It puts a fully featured FTP program right inside your browser.

10. Greasemonkey

The Swiss Army Knife of the internet, Greasemonkey enables you to bend sites to your will through the power of JavaScript.