Firefox bookmark shortcuts

This is a neat trick I found in Firefox. This works at least in Firefox 3 and may also work in Firefox 2; I do, however, encourage you to upgrade if you're still using Firefox 2, as the third release brings about many needed enhancements in performance and memory usage. Using a bookmark, one can turn the location bar into a sort-of command parser, thereby creating a sort of "keyboard shortcut" for that bookmark. This in effect allows you to create your own custom "keyboard shortcuts" or "location bar commands". Here's an example of how it works. Say I want to create a shortcut for Google Ima

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Disable virus scanning in Firefox after download

Here's how to stop Firefox from automatically virus scanning all downloads after they've finished - something that's been annoying me since I've upgraded to Firefox 3 because of the extraneous disk accesses it creates. Open up the about:config (open a new tab, type about:config in the location bar), and find the browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone value. Type in browser in the filter bar for quick searching. Set that value to false by double-clicking. And that's it! What, were you expecting something more?

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