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Navigating to the directory where Firefox stores your profile has always been a bit of a pain, but the recent release of Firefox 3.6 makes finding that folder—and from there backing up your bookmarks, extensions, or entire profile—a breeze.

Navigating to the directory where Firefox stores your profile has always been a bit of a pain, but the recent release of Firefox 3.6 makes finding that folder—and from there backing up your bookmarks, extensions, or entire profile—a breeze.

Firefox only: If you've already started using the Firefox 3.6 Beta release, you're going to need more than the old checkCompatibility trick to get your extensions working again.

If you've spent more than 5 minutes browsing around the web lately, you've no doubt dealt with greedy webmasters assaulting their readers with awful ads and more—but Firefox makes it easy to take back control.

Firefox tip: Firefox 3.0's Awesome Bar added all kinds of features to the 'fox, but unfortunately it's also created some performance issues—for example, by upping the default history time, leading to larger, fragmented databases. This quick hack speeds things up.

If you spend a lot of your day in Firefox, but switch over often to dash off a new email, creating a link between the two is easier than you might think, according to one Lifehacker reader.

The gHacks blog writes up a useful tip: You can save bookmark searches in Firefox to use as smart "virtual" folders, and then pin them to your bookmarks bar.

The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Firefox 3.5 pulls data from certain file locations for randomized security purposes. Sometimes, though, that can lead to annoying slow start-ups in Windows. You can speed things up by cleaning out certain folder locations.

The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.If you want to open a folder of bookmarks in tabs, Firefox normally replaces all of your current tabs—but reader Raghav writes in with a quick configuration trick to fix that behavior.

If you frequently examine the source code of web pages while using Firefox, this handy trick will load the source code directly in your favorite editor.