 All right, I had done some screencasts earlier this week and a bunch of people had like seen my browser and they're sort of asked I've got a lot of questions like what kind of browser have you been using this looks really nice So if you looked up here in the corner, it's actually just normal Firefox The thing about Firefox is that more so than any other browser including including Chrome You could do these crazy modifications to it. They're really nice and it's really nice to have so in this video I'm going to talk about How to change the skin of Firefox and also my general setup for what I have here So let me show you my add-ons. There are probably two that are relevant. One is VimFX and one is stylish So talk about VimFX first It's really just a VIM. It gives you VIM based keyboard shortcuts in your browser So for example J to go down, K to go up or D to go down a page, U to go up a page Or you can click on things with F so I can press F and then it gives me hints to all the links Let's say I want to go to my videos. I press the whatever hint it gave me You know, I can go back with shift H Stuff like that. So it makes browsing a whole lot easier. You can just use your keyboard So that's a really nice thing that I use all the time It makes it more similar to like cute browser or other sort of keyboard based browsers And actually this on this machine. I don't have cute cute browser installed. So Firefox is the only browser I use here Now stylish is a little more multi-featured This is the thing that you know, it lets me change the skin of Firefox really easily So in case you didn't know Firefox by default you can actually go into your dot Firefox directory and change the CSS to sites and Even the browser skin you can do that all manually Now if you don't exactly know how to do that or if you just want a more, you know convenient setup Stylish really helps you with that now how stylish works is when you get it you can click on it and you can click on find styles for this site and style stylish allows people to publish Modifications they've made to different sites. So here are a bunch of YouTube skins and you can go here and you can click whatever you want And then it'll load it, you know, I have a particular skin here. I forget the name of it But yeah, so you can go and use other people's Changes which are very convenient. So that's what I do to modify different sites. And if you look at other sites I use let's say eBay Something like that So you'll see, you know, I make it usually dark actually eBay still looks like crap. It always looks like crap, but you know Actually, let me go ahead and just pull up all the different Managed styles. Yeah, so I actually have a bunch of skins for a bunch of different sites So, you know the arch wiki stuff like that. So for example arch So it's nice and you know dark and stuff like that and that's usually what I do So stylish just he sort of facilitates you changing these again You don't necessarily need stylish to do this if you want to do it manually But it just really helps because lots of other people have already put up, you know code for it So about how I change all of this, you know, the like browser skin You can actually just do that modifying the CSS of Firefox anyway So there's actually this one I have here that I made myself Or I think I got it from someone else and changed it, but You know Let me click back here. If I disable this You'll see that Firefox reverts to a more normal setup. I still don't have the like X signs That's just because I'm on I3 and I got rid of the bar up there. I think But yeah, so you can stylish enables you to enable and disable all these pretty easily. Otherwise, you'd have to restart But yeah, so this has if we want to you can of course go in here and look at it Really you there's just CSS for all the different URL bar, you know Notifications stuff like that and of course you can change any of this stuff So you can I'm gonna put this up in the description of this video So you can take a peek at it You can install stylish and just put this in or you can do it manually if you know how but I always do it Through stylish just because it's more convenient So that's how I get my browser looking the way it does and it's pretty convenient You know, there's no wasted space more or less So anyway, aside from that there's one other optimization I don't think a lot of people know about and that is of course as you know You can have bookmarks in Firefox. That's a pretty obvious thing But you can also tie bookmarks to different like shortcuts or keywords And in fact, you don't only have to tie bookmarks to keywords. You can also have searches to keywords So for example, let's say You know, I want to go to my website. I just type in home Now whenever I type in home, I've mapped that to go automatically to my own website Or for example, let's say I want to look something up in Wikipedia. Let's say I want to look up I don't know Linux I just price W space Linux and type that in and it automatically goes directly to Wikipedia and pulls it up And you see I have this very nice Wikipedia skin as well from stylish. Now how you do that? It's actually super easy Actually, I'll show you how to do it here Just right-click on this, you know search bar and you'll see this thing that says add a keyword for this search and That'll bring this up where you can, you know, save this name You know save the search as whatever name you want and then you put in a keyword and I've put in W And I'm not gonna save this because I already have it but you know so that's how you do it it's pretty easy and For any other bookmark, all you have to do is go up Into your bookmark toolbar right-click on it And then go to properties and you'll see there's also a space for keyword and you can put whatever you want here So, you know, we'll say I am for you know image magic now if I type in I am it goes directly to that site So that's super convenient So I have this set up for all the sites that I use at a daily basis So I don't even have to think about what their URLs are and of course it works for I mean sometimes people ask me what search engine I use I usually use Dot-dot-go But because I have a lot of things like oh, let's say I want to search something in eBay I just type in eb and then you know X 200 and it pops up So I don't really even use a search engine because I usually just search I use these keyword searches to go directly to the site that I'm thinking about So yeah, so it's really convenient But anyway, so hopefully this is giving you a view of the kind of stuff a lot of people don't know about Firefox But definitely stuff you can do pretty easily Again, I'm gonna put the stylish skin up in the video description if you're watching this video in the future I'll go ahead and give you a warning Firefox might change it might not work But anyway, you can do it yourself either way. So have fun. Enjoy it