[GCW]

You can do ctrl-T for a new tab.
Look at This add on too.

[r-man]

I find middle-clicking on a link fulfills all my tab opening needs. Also, if you have millions of tabs open, scrolling the mouse wheel when hovering over them is plenty helpful. And middle-clicking a tab shuts it much easier than aiming at the cross.

[Bubba]

I'm a ctrl-t man. If you've only got a few tabs open you can also just double click the tab bar to open a new tab.

This extension adds a "new tab" icon at the left of the tab-bar.

Also, for posting to forums such as this one, I highly recommend the BBCode extension

And middle-clicking a tab shuts it much easier than aiming at the cross.

Damn, i never knew that - very handy.

[slackline]

Also, if you have millions of tabs open, scrolling the mouse wheel when hovering over them is plenty helpful.

I use Alt + [n] to switch to the n^th tab.  Relatively easy with up to 9 tabs, gets a bit tricky after that 

[Johnny Brown]

Get the mouse gestures add-on, then just flick the mouse as you click on the link.

[slackline]

I use Alt + [n] to switch to the n^th tab.  Relatively easy with up to 9 tabs, gets a bit tricky after that 

...and doesn't appear to function on the M$-windoze version here at work  ???

[Jim]

Ok, thanks for your input, shall investigate further.
Whats that add on thingy to rip flash video's etc....?

[slackline]

Ok, thanks for your input, shall investigate further.
Whats that add on thingy to rip flash video's etc....?

Bookmark Mozilla Add-ons (Ctrl+Shift+L) and userscripts.org (for Greasemonkey scripts).

You're probably thinking of this particular plug-in but note that it only works with v1.5 and 3.1b1pre (which is currently having a few problems with bugs that need to be ironed out, search for news on "firefox 3.1 beta" for more info).

[Bubba]

The best extension I've seen for grabbing youtube videos is the Better Youtube extension. It adds a download link below each video.

For general ripping of any type of images and videos from a web page I recommend DownThemAll. It has easy but powerful filtering and renaming functions and a built in download accelerator for large files.

[tomtom]

OK, trying firefox for the first time in ages, much better than the last - esp the flash blocker extension. Good stuff. Might be converted at this rate... T

[Jim]

How do I get firefox to play quicktime stuff without installing quicktime. I run quicktime alternative which works fine in IE but FF wants me to install quicktime itself?

[slackline]

How do I get firefox to play quicktime stuff without installing quicktime. I run quicktime alternative which works fine in IE but FF wants me to install quicktime itself?

What alternative are you using?

A search on google for something like 'firefox configure [insert name of your plugin] plugin' will reveal something.

May involve changing the settings at the address 'about:config'

[Jim]

this one:  http://www.codecguide.com/about_qt.htm

forget what I said, installed the latest version of QTA and it works now