If you’re a music lover, then you know how important it is to have a good music player that can control your favorite songs and albums. Firefox is one of the best music players on the market, and it comes with a lot of features that make it perfect for controlling your music. Here are some tips on how to control Firefox’s music player from within the browser:

  1. Open Firefox and click on the three lines in the top left corner of the window. This will open a menu with options like “Open in new tab” and “New window”.
  2. In the new window, select “Music Player” from the list and click on the “Controls” button at the bottom. This will open a dialog box where you can set up your preferences for Firefox’s music player.
  3. In this dialog box, you can set up different preferences for how Firefox displays songs and albums when playing them. You can also choose to play only certain types of songs or albums when playing them, or to play all songs and albums at once. You can also choose to have Firefox automatically start playing songs and albums when they’re available in your library or when you start browsing through your media files.
  4. If you want to stop playing an album or song from being played, just click on its name in the dialog box and then select “End Playing”.

FoxyTunes in Action

Once you have installed the extension and restarted Firefox you will see the FoxyTunes Toolbar located in the “Status Bar”. The default media app is Windows Media Player but can be easily changed.

Here are the buttons/items available with the default settings: Search, FoxyTunes Main Menu, Show Player, Select Player, Previous Track, Play, Next Track, Mute On/Off, Volume, Play File, Twitty Tunes, Foxy Tunes Search/Explore, Open FoxyTunes Planet, & Toggle Visibility/Drag and drop to move.

Note: You can hide or show individual buttons/items using the “FoxyTunes Menus”.

Curious about the media players that FoxyTunes works with? Here is a complete listing…that definitely looks terrific! Notice that the currently selected media app is “bold and blue”.

For our example we chose Spotify which we have previously covered. Keep in mind that you may or may not need to have your favorite media app open prior to “starting” FoxyTunes up (i.e. Play Button).

Here is a good look at the “FoxyTunes Main Menu” and “Controls Sub-Menu”.

The “Extras Menu”…if you click on skins you will be taken to the FoxyTunes Skins webpage.

Here is a closer look into the “Configurations Menu” and one of the sub-menus. You do not need to look for options in the “Add-ons Manager Window”…everything you need is contained in these menus.

If you do not like having FoxyTunes in the “Status Bar” you can easily drag and drop it to another toolbar.

You can also condense the appearance of FoxyTunes using the small “triangle buttons” that are located in different spots throughout the “FoxyTunes Toolbar”. With just a click or two you can greatly reduce its’ impact on your UI.

Conclusion

If you love listening to music while browsing then the FoxyTunes extension will let you take care of everything right from your browser.

Links

Download the FoxyTunes extension (Mozilla Add-ons)

Download the FoxyTunes extension (Extension Homepage) *Note: FoxyTunes add-ins for Internet Explorer and Yahoo! Messenger available here.