I generally like Firefox, and generally like Google. But having Google suggest enabled when I search for things is annoying, at least on my rather small laptop screen. Mostly it is because my internet right now is pretty average, so I try to cut down on any extra traffic. Anyhow, I didn’t even both Googling how to do this:

Type in ‘about:config’ into your address bar and type ‘search’ in the top filter bar. Look about half-way down for this:

browser.search.suggest.enabled

Double click it to turn it to false. All done.

I like most standards, I can’t deny it. One thing that I find too humorous is the amount of sites that are not valid, even sites that claim they are. One tool in my box is HTML Validator, an extensioin for Firefox. A nice little icon appears in the lower right, indicating whether a page is valid, not-so-valid, or really-not-so-valid. Makes it easy to check your own sites, and others.

Here’s a tip for Firefox. An extension called BugMeNot enables you to right click on “general” forms and say “Login with BugMeNot.” Firefox will call the BugMeNot extension which looks up in an external database login information. For instance, www.nytimes.com requires a login, which is a great place to test it out.

http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/bugmenot