Two things I hate about Firefox vs. Explorer

[g-bebe]

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If there's a link I want to click thru I just right click -> open link in new tab.

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middle click is even better!

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i had no idea this existed. +1

[Oliver Nipples]

Worst feature is that Firefox randomly deletes your bookmarks and no one knows why.

[KOTLP]

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s because my bookmarks menu is pretty large and is populated by things I don't visit often but I want to keep saved. The drop-down menu has all the pages I visit regularly but because it isn't sorted by recent usage it's not very efficient.

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This is what the "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder" is for.

[KOTLP]

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I remember it being an option in older Firefox editions to have new tabs open to the current page. Am I crazy?

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Naw, must have been an extension you had installed. Just use Tab Mix Plus, it's awesome.

[KOTLP]

found just what I was looking for:

Duplicate Tab

This lets me keep the default behavior of opening new tabs as blank pages, but when I do want to clone the current tab can right click on the tab and select duplicate tab. It preserves the history too.

[CrazyEyez]

You can set your buttons to whatever you want.

My middle button is set to duplicate tab, though I never use it. I have Drag de Go for drag/release links to open them in new tabs. Drag to the right or down to open tab in background, drag left or up to open in foreground. Highlight text -> drag/release to google what you highlighted. Immensely customizable. You can perform four different variations for four different directions of dragging/releasing.

[TheNoodleMan]

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Worst feature is that Firefox randomly deletes your bookmarks and no one knows why.

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They aren't deleted, you have just accidentally created a new profile. Your old bookmarks are likely sill on your computer.

check your application data directory.
c:\Documents and Settings\[your username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

If there are more than one you have found your problem. Figure out which one you actually want and delete the other.

A simple google search turns up dozens of people who have had this problem, and the solutions.

[Jimbo232]

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Worst feature is that Firefox randomly deletes your bookmarks and no one knows why.

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They aren't deleted, you have just accidentally created a new profile. Your old bookmarks are likely sill on your computer.

check your application data directory.
c:\Documents and Settings\[your username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

If there are more than one you have found your problem. Figure out which one you actually want and delete the other.

A simple google search turns up dozens of people who have had this problem, and the solutions.

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I've also found this application pretty useful for backing up or transferring my firefox profile (bookmarks, settings, add-ins, extensions, etc.) from one machine to another MozBackup It is basically a few clicks to create a backup file, and then a few clicks to restore the backup

[LuckOfTheDraw]

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OMFG, you guys should def get Opera web browser. it's like >>>>>>>>>>>>&g t;>>>>>>>>Firefox>>& gt;>>>>>>>>>>Explore r

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Opera has a couple neato features, but I went back to Firefox after about a week of usage. I can't remember the reasons exactly, but I remember there were some annoying issues.

[BatsShadow]

I don't think this is well known:

In both Firefox and IE you can delete mis-spellings or any other URLs you don't want in the autocomplete by highlighting them (down-arrow) and hitting the DELETE key.