When you first click the "bookmark this page" star in the location bar of Firefox, the page is saved in an Unsorted Bookmarks folder. For easier access to this, right-click the bookmarks toolbar and select "New Bookmark". Name this how you wish and set the location to:
place:folder=UNFILED_BOOKMARKS
Click "Add".
This makes quickly accessing temporarily saved pages a lot quicker.
Source: FirefoxFacts.com
Mozilla's latest versions of its browser removed the http:// and https:// protocols from the location (address) bar. I like to have these shown so...
Type "about:config" into the location bar, agree to the warning and search for "trim". Toggle the following preference to FALSE:
browser.urlbar.trimURLsDone. This still leaves the domain highlighted but I actually prefer this.
I was (and still am) a massive fan of Notepad++ but unfortunately it doesn't natively run on Linux. I've tried several alternatives but SciTE is by far my favourite. I did however, have to slightly change the settings:
Options > Open User Options File
By adding the following lines, opening another document will open it in a new tab instead of its own window and all text is mono-spaced by default.
check.if.already.open=1
font.base=$(font.monospace)
font.small=$(font.monospace)
font.comment=$(font.monospace)
font.text=$(font.monospace)
font.text.comment=$(font.monospace)
font.embedded.base=$(font.monospace)
font.embedded.comment=$(font.monospace)
font.vbs=$(font.monospace)
When the privacy issue was prevalent, I found an alternative search engine that claimed it respected just that: privacy. Although this is an interesting prospect, I actually use DuckDuckGo because of it's easy access to lots of other search engines and information using their !bang system. I won't go into that here but once you've mastered it, there's no going back! ...!
And here's some tools to make it even better. For UK users, I've added a browser search plugin to Mycroft: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=duckduckgo.com
Also, if you use Firefox, there's a way to sync the DDG and browser search boxes:
https?://([^.]+\.)?duckduckgo\.com+/[^?/]*\?(.*&)?(as_)?q=([^&]+)
Et Voilà!
This also works well when you highlight text, right click and select "Search with DDG".
Notice that DDG is the only search engine I have installed: this is because I can always access the others via !g !y !b etc.
