I’ve been finding a few browser tricks and hacks(?) for the Firefox and Camino browsers lately. I have found that Camino has the most usable hacks, although it may be that Firefox has more but I can’t find them. BTW, I have tested these tricks on Firefox 2.5 and Camino 1.0.3 for Mac. I expect most of these tricks will work on Windows computers.
Anyway, the hacks for Camino are listed below.
- Holding down the Apple and option key will change the mouse pointer into a hand and allow you to scroll the page around as if it was a pdf.
- Typing about:about into the address field will bring you to a list of other about addresses, including ones for looking inside your cache, viewing the Mozilla logo (not what you think), changing just about any browser setting that you could think of (hundreds more than the preferences), viewing the plugins installed and looking at a verse from the Book of Mozilla (fictional I think).
- Option-clicking on a link will bring up a save dialog, however the dialog box is missing the options to hide the extension and choose the save format. If you do select OK it will save the page that the link pointed to but without any images or CSS files. Does anyone know what this hack is for?
- Shift-clicking on a link will stop that link from loading. I think the only use for this would be to find out what the :active state is for a particular link.
Two more hacks for Firefox only are listed below.
- Option-clicking on a link will automatically save that page without bringing up a save dialog.
- Only some of the Camino about commands will work in the Firefox browser. These include about:buildconfig, about:cache, about:config, about:credits (takes you to a mozilla page on the net), about:license, about:mozilla and about:plugins.
If you find know or find any more hacks for either Camino or Firefox please let me know and I’ll include them here along with your name and website. I would also appreciate feedback from Windows users. Have fun!
[tags]tricks, camino, firefox, hacks, mozilla, Macintosh, Apple[/tags]
