Firefox is by far the best web browser available. Here are two of the five features that I’ll probably use now that I know about them:
1. “Ctrl+F” is so last year. All the cool kids are using “/”.
If you hold “Ctrl” and press “F” you’ll bring up the standard find bar in Firefox. Boring. This is fairly common knowledge. What most people don’t know is that if you press “/” (slash) you’ll bring up the quick find bar. The difference with the quick find bar is that it clears and closes itself once you click anywhere or stop typing for a few seconds, leaving you to continue on your merry browsing way.
4. Copy&Paste into Google no more!
Highlight any text on a website and then right-click on it. What do you know, there’s an option to “Search Google for…” the text you have highlighted. Well I’ll be a copy and pasting monkey’s uncle!
Here’s tha article with all five features
‘/’ is so last year as well. If you go into “Tools” -> “Options…” ->”Advanced” tab -> Select “Search for text when I start typing”. This way you wont have to press anything, just start typing away.
Amen brother. Except when I use my wife’s computer, she hates the auto-search. So I have to use the slashy. Oh well, it’s still awesome!
I used Firefox as my main browser after switching from Safari 1.0. But I now use Flock, which is built on the Firefox code, and I can’t get enough of it. It is really just wonderful. I recommend you give it a try.