Author: Aman Sharma

While writing anything in the Mozilla Firefox address bar, it does a look-up for an accurate domain match and if something gets found, the website is opened accordingly. But if the word/sentence you’ve entered doesn’t match with any possible domain(s), then it displays Google Search Results against that particular keyword.

You know, you can also modify this default Firefox Address Bar Search Provider to Bing, Ask, or Yahoo or something else!

Here is the way to implement it,

• Go to the Firefox address bar
• Write about:config, and hit the Enter button
• Firefox will display a warning “You must know what you are doing before changing the advanced settings”. Click on the link saying I’ll be careful, I promise.
• Under the Settings (Filter text-field), type keyword.URL,
• Now perform a right click on its value, and hit on Modify

Now change the value as per the search provider (which you want to use)

For example,

• To use Bing, set it to https://www.bing.com/search?q=
• To use Ask, set it to https://www.ask.com/web?q=
• To use Google, set it to https://www.google.com/search?&q=
• To use Yahoo, set it to https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=

Most latest versions of Firefox (versions greater than 3.6) comes with the feature that their new tabs are opened in adjacent locations, just next to the present / working tab. And Similarly, when you hit on a link gets opened in its adjacent one.

But when we open some new tab by either visiting the File > New Tab or by hitting CTRL+T , then the new tabs gets appended at the right end side of the browser.

Well, this is a nice feature, because the adjacent related and working tabs improves our browsing experience. But if you want new tabs to be opened at the right-end corner as done by clicking the CTRL+T, you can do that as well. The procedure for implementing it is described below.

Go to the Firefox URL address bar, write about:config and hit the enter button. Please note this might void your firefox warranty. Now hit OK on button saying I’ll be careful, I promise.

Then visit to the Filter column text-box, and type browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent, press Enter.

Now change browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent value to false by double clicking on it. You can also toggle true or false by double-clicking the same.

Now exit from that tab, and you’re done with it. From now onwards, all new tabs will be opened at the right end side of your Mozilla Firefox Browser.

Enjoy.

I receive a number of question from people about solving the Mozilla Firefox Crash Problems, and hence I decided to write a solution about it.

Are you getting the same problem? Is your Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome browser crashing many times in a day? If yes, then read on this article. Most of the times (almost 90%) the browser crashes due to the sites consisting of Adobe Flash Content.

Hence Adobe Flash Player is the real culprit.

Here is the procedure to solve this problem,

Solve Crash problem of Mozilla Firefox

1. Disable the plug-in named Shockwave-Flash to check whether the sites are now properly loading or not. To disable the flash, visit Add-ons in Firefox Tools menu and choose the Plug-in tab. Scroll down where you can see the Shockwave-Flash Plug-in. Click on that to get the option for disabling it. When the shockwave plug-in is successfully disabled, refresh the websites to check whether browser is still crashing. but if not, then you can easily understand that it was crashing due to the Shockwave Flash Plugin.

2. To solve the crash problems arose due to the shockwave flash plug-in, you will have to update it to the latest version. For doing it, hit the Find updates option (under Tools > Add-ons > Plugins). Now update and restart the browser to test it again.

3. If the problem still persists, then uninstall this Shockwave Flash Plugin and re-install it from the Adobe website itself.

Solve Crash problem of Google Chrome

Google Chrome can also get crashed due to the Flash Plug-in. But, before removing or re-installing the shockwave flash player plug-in, first check the browser by disabling all extensions.

To disable the extensions visit Tools > Extensions in your Google Chrome Settings menu. Now, to disable Flash Plug-in on Chrome browser, visit Tools > Options > Under the Hood > Content Settings > Plugins and choose Don’t allow any site to use the Plug-ins.

Now reload the pages on Chrome and check whether browser is still crashing. If not, then you will be required to un-install the Shockwave Flash Player Plug-in of Chrome and then re-installing the plug-in from adobe could solve your problem.

If your Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers are still crashing, you can use the below comment box to describe your problem.