Firefox 3 Officially Released

I've been using the Firefox 3 beta for a couple of months now and am constantly learning new tricks. Here's one that existed in Firefox 2 but has been refined in 3. With larger monitors and higher resolutions, some web sites display in really tiny type.  With Firefox, pressing Ctrl + (that’s Ctrl and the “plus” key) will increase the size of the text. Ctrl and the scroll button on a mouse will do the same thing. In Firefox 2, this setting is for all sites. In Firefox 3, it is site specific. Ctrl-0 returns to the default

By default, this zooms both text and images. If you just want to zoom text, select View | Zoom | Zoom Text Only. This gives you more space for the text.

There used to be a neat trick that works for both IE and Firefox: if you simply type in the name of the site (e.g., heckmanco) and then hit Ctrl-Enter, it fills out the rest of the address. Shift-Enter fills in the rest for .net sites and Ctrl-Shift-Enter for .org sites. With Firefox 3, you no longer have to do even this. Just hit Enter and the rest is filled out.

Another great addition to Firefox 3 is the change to the “remember this login” screen. It used to be you were asked to remember BEFORE the login was successful. How many times did you (as I did) click “remember” only to have it be the wrong password or whatever?  Now, Firefox only prompts to remember AFTER you have successfully logged in. One of those small changes that makes a big difference in useability.

Comments

[Steve]

Or, you could have downloaded and used the NoSquint add-on, which has been providing this feature since FF 1.X. And it is also site-specific.