Firefox as file manager


	Firefox as file manager

n2sooners

5-30-2007 7:59 PM

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5-31-2007 1:22 AM

thefoxalmighty

Useful tip.. Thnx

5-31-2007 3:29 PM

skwirlinator

I already do this

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Now reader Mark says he actually uses Firefox - with the IETab extension - to browser web pages and local folders all in one Firefox window:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/software/how-to/use-firefox-as-a-windows-file-manager-264332.php"><BLOCKQUOTE>I just have IEtab set up to automatically engage whenever the page begins with "<A title="Linkification: file:///*" href="http://lifehacker.com/software/how-to/file:///*" class="linkification-ext">file:///*</A>" and set the folders I open often as my homepage such as Recently Downloaded Music, My Documents, iTunes Music, etc.</BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/software/how-to/use-firefox-as-a-windows-file-manager-264332.php"><P>The great thing about this method is that all of Firefox's <A href="http://lifehacker.com/software/tabbed-browsing/how-to-work-with-groups-of-tabs-in-firefox-246643.php" linkindex="14">tabbed bookmark</A> and <A href="http://lifehacker.com/software/bookmarks/hack-attack-firefox-and-the-art-of-keyword-bookmarking-196779.php" linkindex="15">keyboard quick search</A> tricks work just as well with file:// URLs as web site URLs.  <I>Thanks, Mark!</I> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/software/how-to/use-firefox-as-a-windows-file-manager-264332.php"><DIV class="related"><A href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419" linkindex="16">IETab</A></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/68A87E1B-4F75-4672-8EE4-B4785DCFD14E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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