For those of you who are using the almighty Firefox browser, here’s a little tip for more convenient browsing…
When I’m browsing the internet, I like to be able to check my favourite bookmarks quickly and easily with as little clicks as possible. When you start your browser, it opens on the site that you configured as your ‘homepage’. But that’s only one page. I have about 10 sites that I like to check on almost every time I open my browser.
Some of you might know that you can edit your homepage URL so that it has more than one page by splitting the site URL’s with a |. If you change your homepage URL for example to http://thequicky.net|
http://news.google.com, then every time you open your browser it will load two tabs. One will contain my website, the other will contain the Google News site. I used to have about six to eight sites in there which opened up every time I started my browser so I could really quickly check my most important favourites.
After some time though I started getting annoyed by the loading times when I had just opened my browser to find something on google really quickly for example. Then I got the idea of using the ‘throbber’ button to put my main favourites into, and leaving only one page in my normal ‘homepage’. The ‘throbber’ button is the little circle of dots in the top right corner of your window that animates when a page is loading. Normally if you click this, you are forwarded to some mozilla page. But you can edit the link. So what I did was edit the link so it had about 8 of my main favourites except for the one that I wanted to keep in my normal ‘homepage’ using the | to split the URLs.
