Firefox tips

I have a couple of Firefox tips I would like to share with you. First, to block sending referrer information, i.e. to stop sites you visit from seeing where you come from, follow these steps:

1. In the address bar of your Firefox browser type: about:config and hit Enter.
2. In the Filter input field type: network.http.sendRefererHeader.
3. Double click on the preference name.
4. Change the value from 2 to 0 and hit OK.

That’s it. In case you are wondering, 0 means don’t send any referrer information, 1 means send only on clicks and 2 means send on clicks and image requests.

For the second tip, consider this scenario: you have a URL wrapped over multiple lines. For example:

http://www.goo
gle.com/

Now, copy and paste the above URL (the two lines) into the address bar, you will end up only with the first line, the second line is gone. Your address bar will contain http://www.goo only. This behavior has always annoyed me. It turns out that there is a workaround, here it is:

1. In the address bar of your Firefox browser type: about:config and hit Enter.
2. In the Filter input field type: editor.singleLine.pasteNewlines.
3. Double click on the preference name.
4. Change the value from 1 to 3 and hit OK.

That’s it. Now, try to copy and paste the above URL (the two lines) into the address bar again. Voila! In case you are wondering again, 1 means paste first line only, 2 means replace new line characters with spaces and 3 means strip new line characters.

Do you have a useful Firefox tip? Please share.

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Filed in Firefox, Tips on 17 Aug 05 | Tags: Firefox

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