Want to speed up Firefox's already-speedy data transfers? Yeow shows how to turn on pipelining for your specific connection. Need more than one "home page" to open automatically when you launch Firefox? That's easy, if you follow the two-step process Yeow describes. Bugged by windows that mysteriously open behind your working, tabbed browser? Take his SingleWindow tip on how to make every new window—even pop-ups—open in a new tab. Trying to debug and fine-tune your own Web site? Chapter 7 is "Web Developer's Nirvana": it has useful techniques to confirm that cookies are being set; view, edit and confirm CSS style-rules; and FTP easily from your Windows Firefox browser. (The author points out that better FTP methods are available to the Linux user; I know other programs are simpler than Firefox FTP from the Mac.)
With lots of pertinent illustrations, well-written instructions, and a light, "this is important, but not earth-shaking" approach to his topics, the author provides easy-to-follow guidance to the powerfully simple application that Firefox is. As a middle-level user, I appreciated that. And for those who have "reached the end of the Internet," Yeow provides Chapter 8: "Living on the Edge." If your desire is to get deeper into the nooks and crannies of the Firefox code, this chapter points the way.
For the average Firefox user, or the new user who wants to become one, this is a very useful manual. I can recommend it, and the included CD, highly.
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