How to keep Firefox 3.5 running after closing last tab and add a close tab button on the last tab

Firefox 3.5 came with one one more annoying UI change that is once you have closed all the other tabs and only one tab is open the close tab button disappears from the tab and you can now just close the Firefox window by pressing the close button on top right or just hit ctrl+w but the problem is that this behaviour is not really suitable for a browser like Firefox which takes ages to start once you close it unlike Google chrome, and personally i am used to closing all the stuff in the tabs and let Firefox keep running and then open any website i have to in the empty tab. so now i am going to show you guys how to disable Firefox from closing the window when you close the last tab.

Type about:config in your Firefox address bar and press enter press the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button and now search for “browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab” and double click it to change its value to false, now whenever you close the last tab using ctrl+w or the close tab button we are just going to add the Firefox window wont close.

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How to remove the new tab button in Firefox 3.5

Mozilla Released Firefox 3.5 a while ago and as always there were some UI changes and if you are like me and don’t like getting used to new stuff again and again you definitely wont like these useless changes , one such change is the addition of the new tab button which is totally useless for me and just occupies valuable space on my tab bar as I use double click (on the tab bar) to open new tabs so i just removed it, i will show you guys how to remove it.

Removing it is pretty easy without harming anything, we are going to use the userChrome.css file to edit the layout of Firefox don’t worry it only sounds dangerous but it isn’t in fact this file is used for creating themes for Firefox.

ok now lets do it, at first we need to open the chrome folder where the userChrome.css file resides for that you need to browse to “x:\\Document and Setting\%your username%\application data\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles\%your active profile folder%\chrome\” (where x is your windows installation directory), once you are there, you have to find the userChrome.css file if its not there, don’t worry, its not there for most people just open userChrome-example.css file and save it as userChrome.css and now add these lines to it under the @namespace line:

/* remove New Tab button */

.tabs-newtab-button {display:none !important;}

Once you are done with adding those lines just save the file and restart Firefox and now the new tab button will be gone, if it is still there then there must have been some problem, just leave a comment and i will be glad to help you out.

Remotely Control your Torrents on Linux

You have a spare PC lying around or you travel a lot and want to monitor your Bitorrent downloads. Well then what you could do is make yourself a mini seedbox, essentially what a seedbox is a spare computer that you use for torrent downloads now I am going to show you how to create one so that it may be easy for you to monitor your Bittorrent downloads on the go.

First thing’s first we need a torrent client in this case we will be using a modified version of Torrent Flux ( which is a php torrent client) called Torrentflux-b4rt. I choose the modified version because it has more features and also the option to use different back ends. you must be wondering why not just use the uTorrent with its webUI, let me tell you that utorrent webUI has very limited set of features as opposed to TorrentFlux and utorrent webUI cant be accessed from your cellphone if you decide to control it on the go and last but not the least torrentflux is very customizable as you can install plugins and theme to either change the look or to add more features.

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Make Firefox open new tabs next to current tab instead of last tab

Mozilla Firefox by default opens links in the last tab in the tab bar if you open a link in a new tab  and if you have too many tabs open then it could be really annoying to browse to the end of the tab bar, I came across two Firefox extensions for changing this behavior and both are compatible with Firefox 3.0.1

First is called Next Tab which adds a “Open link next to current tab” option to your right click context menu so that you can easily open your desired link in a new tab next to the current tab, this is a very small and simple extension which gets the job done.

The second one is called Tabs Open Relative which changes the default behavior of firefox so that it opens every link in a new tab next to the current tab so that in can work with the links you open with the middle click but that isn’t what you always want to do.

It also changes the behavior for new tabs so that they open next to current tab but if you want to disable that the extension developer has given the instructions for that:

If you don’t want new tabs to be affected, go to about:config (see http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config for more info) and disable the preference “extensions.tabsopenrelative.includenewtabs”.

Easily Download Youtube Videos Using Flashgot

FlashGot is one of the most popular Firefox extension which allows you to seamlessly integrate your download manager with Firefox, by adding a new option to the Firefox download window and when you select that option it adds the download link in your favorite download manager.

I have been using flashgot since Firefox 1.5 and it keeps on getting better and better and this time the flashgot developers have added an exciting new feature to flashgot called “FlashGot Media” which adds a new item to the right click context menu of Firefox (this only shows up whenever a video is playing) so that you can easily download Youtube videos from inside Firefox without installing any separate software’s and it is the easiest and the quickest way to download Youtube videos, here’s how it works:

open any Youtube video and right click on an empty area (not the Youtube player) and click on “FlashGot Media” or just press Ctrl+F7 and it will detect the the embedded video in that page and it will start downloading that video in your default download manager (chosen in flashgot settings) ,that’s it once your download manager finishes downloading the video file you can watch it.

Get the latest version of flashgot (v1.1) from here

Edit: This doesnt only works with youtube!