Quick Tip: Firefox and Notepad++

July 6, 2013

Here are a couple of small tips I found useful while working on websites.

Firefox

While working on a site, I ran into a situation where I wanted to disable JavaScript. I was on a machine where I could not install extensions like NoScript, so I needed to do it directly in Firefox. In older versions of Firefox, this could be done through Preferences, but that option had been removed in the beta version I was using at the time.

After checking the Mozilla wiki, I found that the setting could still be changed through about:config. Search for javascript.enabled and set it to false to disable JavaScript.

Notepad++

There is also a handy shortcut in Notepad++. If you select a tag or word in your file and press Ctrl + Left Arrow or Ctrl + Right Arrow, your cursor will move to the next matching tag or word. Ctrl + Up Arrow and Ctrl + Down Arrow will scroll the view up and down.

Hopefully someone else finds these useful too.