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Save Space In FireFox – Integrate Google Toolbar In FireFox Search Box

One of the most useful toolbar in firefox is google toolbar which helps you auto fill the information on various web pages and also prevent you from various pop ups. But the most annoying fact is that google toolbar is shown just below the firefox address bar so it takes a good amount of space and decreases the readable space in firefox.

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We can see both the snapshots given below one with google toolbar shown and other with google toolbar hidden and integrated with firefox search box

Google Toolbar Shown

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Google Toolbar Hidden

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Let’s discuss how to hide google toolbar and integrate it to the firefox search box

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Copy Plain Text – Copy Any Text In FireFox Without Formatting

It could happen many times when you try to copy any text selected on a webpage opened in firefox and when you paste the text in word document or any where else formatting remains so you undo the paste and copy the text in notepad and then copy again to the word document. As far as my experience this particular practice is really a pain on your mind and it also takes more time as usual.

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Copy Plain Text is a cool firefox addon which comes to rescue in this situation and adds a context menu entry in the right click menu in firefox as Copy as Plain Text

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Search On Bing From FireFox Search Bar – Add Bing To FireFox Search Box

Microsoft has recently publicly launched their new search engine Bing which is much better and faster as compared to old live search. I had performed couple of searches on bing and found the results very good and quickly, looks like Microsoft had modified the old live search to make it more precise and quick this time.

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Bing provides some great general search results now, with high relevance, big index and quick speed. So, lately I have been studying about various other articles of bing tips and tricks and how to add bing to windows 7 and while surfing I came across another cool addon which adds bing to the firefox search bar.

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IE View – Open Link Target In Internet Explorer | Open Current Page In Internet Explorer

IE View is one of the cool free firefox addon which allows you to open any web page you visited with firefox to be opened in internet explorer. You can open any page in internet explorer from firefox just by right clicking the page and select View This Page In IE

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IE View adds the menu items to the context menu and the link to the context menu. Right clicking a link now includes "Open link target in IE" menu item and Right-clicking elsewhere in the main body of the page (not within an image, text box, etc.) gives "View this page in IE."

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Ie8fox 1.5 – Download Internet Explorer 8 Theme For FireFox

FireFox is one of the browser which offers the maximum level of optimizations as compared to the other to make user feel like old. All these high level customizations are allowed as per the user requirement by some amazing add ons library.

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One such add on is Ie8fox 1.5 which is a firefox theme which lets you transform the look and feel of your FireFox browser to make it look like the new Internet Explorer 8 ( as shown in the image below)

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3+ Ways To Prevent Stop FireFox To Display Suggestions, Bookmarks, Favorites In Recently Typed URLs In Address Bar FireFox

In FireFox 3 one of the new feature introduced is the new location bar or revamped address bar which will display the suggestions of sites when you type any website URL which was previously accessed with in firefox.

But some people don’t want firefox to behave like this for some reason, if you are one of them then we have 3+ ways to prevent the firefox from displaying the sites suggestions from your bookmarks and recently typed URLs history.

See Also: ALL Ways To Remove / Delete A Specific Typed URL In History Of Address Bar Typed URLs In Internet Explorer

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Tip: Remove / Delete / Clear A Specific Site URL From FireFox Address Bar Typed URLs History

It could be a case that you don’t want some sites which you browse from your office or home computer to show up in recently types URLs history in FireFox address bar.

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All those firefox history cleaners does not allow you to do delete a specific URLs from the address bar history in firefox, so if you want to clean a particular URLs typed before in the recently typed URLs list of firefox address bar you would need to delete it manually.

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Fission – Get Progress Bar In FireFox Address Bar Combined Together

Recently I found this cool firefox addon called Fission which lets you mix address bar and progress bar together, that means you can see the progress bar progressing in the address bar itself when you open any link in firefox.

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This small addon makes progress bar more visible by placing the progress bar inside the address bar, which is more visible to see as compared to its default location in the footer status bar

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