DSL Tips and Tricks :: Firefox middle mouse button can close tabs
For those (like me) who are used to closing tabs in Firefox using the middle mouse button, instead of that pesky URL paste function; do this :-
enter "about:config" in the address bar Filter for the word "middle" middlemouse.content:LoadURL will be "true", just double click it to "false". restart FireFox.Sweet! Thank you very much!
Now, to get the scroll wheel working... Off to search again!That is sweet. Even if it didn't have the close tab feature, I still like it just to disable the middle-click URL paste. I can't say how many times I've attempted to middle-click a link to open it in a new tab, only to miss the mark slightly and have my page be replaced by some worthless and unrelated content. The only pasting i want to see is when clicking in a text field.Hi all; I'm new to this forum (so perhaps somethings are already mentioned elsewhere here) - but I'm a huge fan of about:config for customizing Firefox, Mozilla, and yes, even Epiphany (GNOME based on Mozilla)...
I'm using DSL v1.1(acccording to "Dillo") and FF v0.9.1 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040630 Firefox/0.9.1
If you want all flashing/rotating "images" (such as animated GIFs) to stop, do this; type image in the "Filter" bar once you load about:config in a separate tab -- whatever search term you put into the "Filter" box, will help you narrow down your choice settings, and make finding these/those specific settings easier.
notice this setting; image.animation_mode change "normal" to "none"
Here's some more changes I do to ALL my FF/Moz browsers; middlemouse.paste = false
middlemouse.contentLoadURL = false # Already Posted by Humpty
middlemouse.openNewWindow = false
type in the Filter box; dom.disable... EVERY setting (16 of them) that starts with *dom.disable* ONLY - should be set to true
This overrides ALL the stupid JavaScript in web pages ( from Windows/Tabs/Clicks that Javascript opened) that do NOT allow you to * Resize the window * Toolbars = missing * Menu bar = missing * Right click to gain access to Context menu = Unable * Minimize = missing * Scrollbars = missing etc, etc, etc
I personally turn OFF all the Java and Javascript anyway (in the GUI) -- but there are many that are not located in the GUI --> Edit | Preferences | Advanced | Javascript | Advanced (you'll notice there are only 5 there - whereas in about:config, there's 16 of them. I tried to take a screenshot just now, to illustrate which ones the GUI allows you to disable, but it's not working too well t the moment...anyway, I'll surely add more, as I return, and get this DSL configured correctly.Another useful firefox config (in my opinion)....
I don't like icons, and get rid of them wherever I can. The icons in the firefox bookmarks menu and tabs can be removed (not just replaced with a default icon) by adding this to userChrome.css:
