Firefox Add-ons Options

After installing a Firefox add-on, you'll want to see what options that you have to further customize Firefox.

To explore the individual options of your extensions, go to; Tools, Add-ons, Extensions, select an extension and click on "Options" where you'll see the extension's options if the extension provides extra options.

Firefox extensions manager


Customizing Toolbars

Many extensions have extra buttons available for you to place onto your toolbars. To view them and to customize your toolbars go to
View > Toolbars > Customize, or right click on any toolbar (with the exception of the Bookmarks toolbar) and select Customize.

Firefox customize toolbars window

Drag the icon of the button that you want to add up to a toolbar and drop it on the toolbar.

You can place buttons on all of the Firefox toolbars with the exception of the Bookmarks toolbar. Furthermore, you can remove items from the toolbars by dragging them onto the customization window. When finished, select "Done".

Firefox customization menu

Firefox customization menu

If there is a toolbar that you do not wish to use or display, right click on a toolbar and uncheck the toolbar that you do not want displayed, or you can go to View > Toolbars, and uncheck the toolbar that you want removed.


Selecting a Theme

After you have installed a theme, you will have to choose one to use.

With Firefox open, go to; Tools, Add-ons, Themes.
Click on one of the themes that you would like to use and select "Use Theme".

Close Firefox and all of its windows and restart it. When Firefox restarts, you'll see the theme that you selected to use.

Firefox themes manager

That's all there is to it. You'll find that it's quite fun to be able to customize Firefox the way that you want.

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