Solutions PROBLEMS SOLVED THIS ISSUE 78 Ask the Experts • Get rid of the Win XP setup option on boot-up • Move Sent mail to your Inbox • Choose one graphics card, not two • Change folder-sharing security settings • Determine how your graphics memory is being used
80 Office • Unleash nine hidden Outlook tricks 82 Security • Learn to be your own support tech
83 Tips • Print pages in the right order • Force-quit iPhone apps • Use Symbian keyboard shortcuts • Open Excel workbooks in separate windows • Find an open application or file in Windows easily • Save valuable “scraps” in XP
Make the Most of Firefox 3
Unleash the power of Mozilla’s latest browser version with these features. By Logan Kugler The latest version of Mozilla’s popular open-source browser enjoyed one of the most successful launches in software history, with a record-setting 8.2 million downloads the first day it was available. Because users can drastically expand the browser’s functions using plug-in extensions and Greasemonkey scripts, many of Firefox 3’s built-in features are overlooked. Here are seven of our favorites. 1. DUPLICATE TABS WITH DRAG-ANDDROP. Duplicating tabs is a piece of cake:
Simply hold the Ctrl key while dragging the tab you want to duplicate to an empty space on the tab bar. 2. MINIMIZE THE TOOLBAR. Free up a little extra screen real estate by getting rid of the big, round “Back” button and replacing it with a more streamlined control. Rightclick the toolbar, choose Customize, and select Use small icons. The new controls are perfectly functional but smaller, allowing the toolbar to shrink and leaving more room for viewing sites. 3. USE SMART BOOKMARKS. Smart bookmarks are live bookmarks that don’t just refer to particular sites but actually generate live lists of sites according to parameters you define. For example, you might have a smart bookmark that lists the 10
LIVE BOOKMARKS Create bookmark lists such as the 10 sites you visit most often.
sites you visit most often, or the last 20 sites you’ve visited with a particular keyword in their title. To create a smart bookmark, select Organize Bookmarks from Firefox’s Bookmarks menu. In the window that opens, select Bookmarks Menu in the left-hand pane, then click Organize in the toolbar at the top and New Bookmark in the dropdown menu. Give your smart bookmark a descriptive name like “10 Most Recent Bookmarks.” In the Location field, you enter a line of code telling the smart book-
mark what to do. For the ten most-visited sites, you’d enter: place:queryType=1&sor t=12&maxResults=10. There are dozens of parameters you can use; Mozilla’s developer site includes a list of commands (developer.mozilla.org/en/Places_query_ uris) you can use in smart bookmarks. Here are a couple of the most useful: • The ten sites you’ve visited most recently (some installations of Firefox to come with this smart bookmark already in place on the Bookmarks toolbar): place: queryType=0&sort=8&maxResults=10. JANUARY 2009 PC MAGAZINE 75
