8 Firefox 3 features you may have not known about

July 7th, 2009

We all love Firefox. It’s highly customizable, tweak-able, stable, and has tons & tons of great add-ons. With Firefox 3.5, performance is faster and more stable than ever.

Check out these neat features that may have not known about:

1. To duplicate tabs press Ctrl (Cmd on Mac) while dragging a tab to create a duplicate of the dragged tab including its history.
2. To move tabs to another window just drag a tab and drop it on another window to move it. If the dragged tab is the last one in its window, it will be closed.

3. To resize the search bar you can drag the handler between them (invisible on Windows and Linux) to resize it.
4. To add keyword search select Manage Search Engines… in the search engines menu to open the Search Engines Manager, select a search engine, press Edit Keyword… and enter a few characters to define one. Now you can enter the keyword followed by your search terms in the location bar to search with that plugin.
5. For discontinuous selections make a selection with the mouse, press Ctrl (Cmd on Mac) and make additional selections to copy or print just what you want.
6. For integrated add-ons there is no need to visit Mozilla Add-ons because Firefox 3 brings it to you directly from the Add-ons Manager new Get Add-ons page: search, find and install with a single click.
8. To check your crashes enter about:crashes in the location bar to get a list of crashes submitted by Breakpad (Mozilla’s crash reporter). Click on a crash report to get details provided by Socorro, Mozilla’s crash reports server.