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After being able to split the Eclipse windows, I felt the need to split Firefox. Luckily I came across this add-on called "Split Browser", which simply does this for you. It enables you to split tabs both horizontally and vertically. Here's a screenshot of this.

Great! Now I can stop using mouse for the most part of browsing.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Keyboard+shortcuts

I wanted to remove FF3 (Firefox 3) and install FF2 in Ubuntu because some of the web applications didn't work well in FF3. After doing a apt-get remove for FF3 and an apt-get install for FF2 I noticed that in Thunderbird when clicked on a link in a mail, will not open up a browser tab. So the hunt began :)

The solution was to tell Thunderbird the path of the browser to open. You need to create user.js file inside your ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/xxx.default/ (the xxx means any weird set of letters and numbers, e.g. 20art4c7). Type (or edit the path as to suit your browser) the following lines into that file and save it.

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp","/usr/bin/firefox-2");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http","/usr/bin/firefox-2");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https","/usr/bin/firefox-2");

That's it :)