Readers offer their best tips for moving through your recent history in Firefox, avoiding a nail biting habit, and making sure you don't send any embarrassing emails.
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Right-Click Firefox's Back Button for Your Recent History
Dustin lets us know of another change in Firefox 4:
Here's one I had to look up. Maybe I can save someone else the trouble.
One of the changes in Firefox 4 was to ditch the drop-down on the back/forward button. To access the back/forward history, you can now just right-click the button or left-click and hold down until the menu appears.
[via Mozilla]
Carry Nail Clippers Around With You to Avoid Nail Biting
Photo by Simon Law.
Ben Mordecai shares his nail biting solution:
I have bitten my nails since I was a child and could never quit even though I wanted to, but I found a trick that seems to work pretty well.
I realized at one point that once my nails are short enough, I stop biting them. That way I don't bite them in the "quick" where it would be painful, but most of the time when I do bite them it is when I am sitting still for a long period of time.
So I started keeping nail clippers in my pocket everywhere that I go, and if I see a nail that is long enough to bite, I can just clip it right there. As a result, my fingers are no longer "eligible" to be bitten.
Always Start with an Empty Recipient Field to Avoid Accidental Sending
Thatgirl lets us know her preferred method for avoiding email embarrassment:
For the 'Saving Yourself From Email-Sending Mistakes' bucket: When I'm composing an email, I often save the recipient fields (To, CC, BCC) for last, which I think is a relatively common tip/habit. But I sometimes take it a step further—if it's a reply, and it's particularly important (or TO someone particularly important), I take a second to actually remove all recipients from those fields. This way if I get a little crazy with the mouse and inadvertently click 'Send', or I manage to accidentally hit some keyboard shortcut for 'Send' (which has happened to me multiple times over the years), no harm is done because there was no one to send it to. When I've finished and re-read and checked for attachments and maybe stepped away for a bit and then re-read again, THEN I add the recipient(s) back in.
Create New Bookmarks by Dragging Tabs to the Bookmark Bar
PrairieMoon shares a quick bookmarking tip for Firefox:
Some interesting things, especially to me who hasn't seen them before.
Select all of an URL in the location bar, choose copy from the right-click menu, right-click on bookmarks toolbar, choose paste. It only adds the link, not the name, but interesting.
Also noticed that a tab can be dragged to the bookmarks toolbar and get placed there as a .. well as a bookmark. A bookmark can be right-dragged or click-dragged to the tab bar. Everybody guessed the rest, if they didn't know it before.
I'd be drunk on power, but it's only a browser.