Firefox ... we use it all day, for everything from managing finances to socializing to playing games. But it's a large and complicated programs. Are you getting the most out of your browser? In this series, I'll offer some tricks you can use to spend less time getting more out of the web.

I'll concentrate mostly on Firefox since that's the most popular Linux browser. But most Firefox tricks will work in other Mozilla-based browsers, and some will even work in non-Mozilla browsers like Konqueror and Opera.

I'll start the series with my favorite trick that not many people seem to know about: Bookmarklets. If you're a regular user of Firefox, I'm sure you're familiar with bookmarks, and you probably have a long list of them. But you might not have seen their most useful form.

What are bookmarklets?