Firefox

Main shortcuts

Must be done with the keyboard
ctrl-L	location bar
ctrl-K	search bar
ctrl-F	find
F3	find next
ctrl-Enter in the find bar	highlight find
ctrl-T	new tab
Easier to do it with the mouse
ctrl-W	close tab
ctrl-pageup/down	previous/next tab
Mouse shortcuts
Middle click on link	open in new tab
Middle click on tab	close tab

Things that must be done with the keyboard are things that imply that you will type something after, then it is faster.

Extensions

All-in-One Sidebar
F4	Show/Hide sidebar
Tab Mix Plus
Middle click on tab bar	open last closed tab

Shortcuts for search engines

For all your bookmarks you can define a keyword : when you type it in the URL bar it will trigger the bookmark.

It is even more interesting for search engines. You just have to find what is the syntax of the url for searching (just tries – searching a word which doesn't exist is more efficient – or look at the examples I give next), and replace the words to search by %s.

Then you just have to type in the url bar, if you defined the g keyword for google : g crteknologies and it will search crteknologies with google.

There are some search engines which are already defined in the Fast search folder in the bookmarks, but you can add everything you want. As an example, you can find here all the keywords I use.

Interesting extensions

All-in-One Sidebar: put favorites, history, downloads etc in a sidebar
Tab Mix Plus: multirow tab bar, “new tab” button in the tab bar, open last closed tabs, hide close tab button, and lot more
Adblock Plus: to prevent ads download
Grease Monkey: allows to customize all web pages, in order to remove ads undetected by Adblock Plus or to add features
FireFTP: a good FTP client
IE View or IE Tab: for Windows, to quickly load a page in IE
Download Statusbar: shows a discreet status bar with the state and rates of your downloads
Master Password Timeout
Nightly Tester Tools*: allows to make compatible an extension
Get jetable mail
Tree Style Tab: show tabs like a tree

Hide Find Bar
Google Pagerank Status: show in the status bar the pagerank of the current page
MR Tech Disable XPI Install Delay
oldbar: to display Firefox < 3.0 URL bar in Firefox >= 3.0
Source Viewer Tab

Advanced configuration

By typing about:config in the url bar, you have a access to a lot of configuration parameters.

extensions.checkCompatibility
extensions.checkUpdateSecurity
browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML
browser.backspace_action

about:plugins will give you information about your firefox multimedia plugins (WMP, flash, java, etc), and about:cache will list files in the firefox cache with some details.

Firefox 3

Restore the old location bar: oldbar extension
restore backspace key for previous page : about:config/browser.backspace_action = 0
And while it is in beta testing, find compatible versions of extension looking for latest development builds (Adblock Plus, Tab Mix Plus, …), or try to make the other ones compatible using Nightly Tester Tools extension.