Did you know that in Firefox, you can do more with your mouse scroll wheel than just scroll a web page up and down?

Here are a few tips on using your mouse scroll wheel in Firefox that could save you some time.

1. Closing Tabs
To close a tab just place your mouse cursor on a tab and click with the scroll wheel. This is more convenient and faster than clicking the small cross on the tabs, especially when you want to close several tabs.

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Firefox 3.0 is surely faster than its previous version. And with a little tweaking and optimization Firefox 3.0 can be made to perform even faster than it does out of the box.

One way is to do the tweaking manually by accessing about:config and editing the parameters. Editing the configuration manually may not be everybody’s cup of tea. But there is a much easier and quicker way of doing the same: Firetune. Firetune is a free tool that will optimize several internal settings of Firefox for better performance according to your specific computer speed and Internet connection speed. Firetune works with all versions of Firefox, even the latest Firefox 3.0.

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In Firefox,  zooming in and zooming out is very easy. Hold down the Ctrl key and scroll the mouse wheel away from you to Zoom in and towards you to Zoom out.

Here is a simple trick which can save you quite a few keystrokes each time you enter web site addresses in Firefox.

Suppose you want to visit Digital Quest, instead of entering the full address like www.dq.winsila.com, you could just enter dq.winsila and press Ctrl+Enter. The www and .com are automatically added and Firefox starts fetching the site.

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Ever tried to view an image posted in a forum, only to be presented with the image of a frog instead of the original image? That is because, the image has been hosted with Imageshack, an image hosting service. Imageshack dislikes direct linking to the images, as it eats up their server’s bandwidth. That’s why they serve you the frog instead of the image.

However, if you are using Firefox of Opera browser, with a simple tweak you can work around the problem and actually see the images. Read the full story

Even if you use Firefox as your primary browser, there might be occasions when you are forced to use Internet Explorer. Like for instance, downloading updates from Microsoft website or running an online virus scan which requires an ActiveX to be installed. There could also be the rare case of a page that does not render itself correctly in Firefox.

If you have been using Firefox for quite some time, you might find that you hate to leave Firefox, even if it was for a short time. If that’s true, then what you need is IE Tab.

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I have been using Firefox for quite sometime now and still there are features that I haven’t uncovered yet. Quite often I come across a useful feature that I was not aware of. I would like to share those tips as and when I learn about them. Here are a few Firefox tips which can speed up your browsing and make it more enjoyable. Hopefully, there would be at least a couple of tricks that you didn’t know of before.

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