10 Great Firefox Hacks

Erik Sherman, a subscriber to one of my websites, FreelanceSuccess.Com, sent me a link to the article, “10 handy Firefox about:config hacks.”

Hack #5, “Open search bar results in new tab,” and Hack #8, “View source code in an external editor,” are the two best, as far as I’m concerned. Now, I can open up a page’s source code in Smultron, the text editor I use. Editing the file doesn’t let you test changes—as it does in Opera—but it still provides a consistent way of looking at source code.

One of the “features” that I always hated about viewing source with Firefox is that the default configuration doesn’t wrap long lines. Now, with Smultron, I get wrapped lines.

While poking around, I did find a way to wrap long lines of source code without loading it into an external editor. Search for the parameter view_source.wrap_long_lines and set it to true. That works like a charm, too.