Here are a few steps to making your firefox browser a little faster. Firefox comes preset for dial-up users, but can be optimized for better performance if you have a faster connection. This is for users with at least a broadband connection.
Things You’ll Need:
* Firefox browser
* High speed connection (not dial-up)
Step 1:
Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Read More»
Andrei provides an excellent tip for Firefox users in Pasting Wrapped URLs:
Here’s another Mozilla/Firefox tip: if you copy a URL wrapped over multiple lines from somewhere and try to paste it into the address bar, you will end up only with the first line of it. To fix it, go to about:config and change editor.singleLine.pasteNewlines setting to 3 or add: Read More»
Believe it or not, Firefox is optimised for dial-up connections by default. You need to change some settings to get the browser’s best performance over DSL, cable or other broadband links.
Before you change anything, back up Firefox’s configuration file; return to the page “Better Default Google Search” and scroll down to “Back Up FireFox’s ‘Registry’ ” for details.
Next, open Firefox and press Ctrl, L to place the cursor in the address bar. Type about:config and press Enter. Then enter network.http in the filter field. Now make the following changes:
In the field of ‘Preference Name’ choices (click on the thumbnail at right to see the screen), double-click network.http.pipelining to set it to ‘true’. Read More»
Over the years I have tried a number of tweaks to speed up the Firefox browser, some of them work quite well, but this has to be the best one yet, and it is really easy. All you have to do is open Firefox’s hidden configuration menu, to do that go to the address bar and type about:config and the settings list opens. Scroll down until you come to Network prefetch-next, and if the entry in the Value column reads Read More»
FireFox when compared to IE has many features which can be turned on and off. Users can play with the tweaks for enhanced user experiences. Here is a short tutorial on how to speed up your internet connection with FireFox. Follow these steps:
1. In FireFox address bar (where you type the website address) type about:config and hit enter.
2. In filter box just below the address type in network.
3. Then scroll down half way untill you see network.http.pipeling. Click on the right column to change the value to True.
4. Now below this row change the value of network.http.pipeling.maxrequests to 10.
5. Then click ok and restart FireFox.
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Mozilla applications render web pages incrementally - they display what’s been received of a page before the entire page has been downloaded. Since the start of a web page normally doesn’t have much useful information to display, Mozilla applications will wait a short interval before first rendering a page: by default, Firefox doesn’t try to render a web page for 250 milliseconds while it’s waiting for data.
If you use about:config to add the Integer preference nglayout.initialpaint.delay, and set the value to 0, Firefox immediately starts to display the page, even without complete data (lower values will make a page initially display more quickly, Read More»
By default, the about:config preference UI automatically detects localized preferences and displays the localized setting. But if you are a hacker working on customizing the default settings, this can be very confusing. This little extension “fixes” the default behavior to display the chrome URI of the localized .properties file.
Works with Firefox 2 -> 2.0.0.* Read More»
This advanced tip makes it possible to run Firefox from removable media, such as a USB memory stick. This will allow you to run Firefox with your personal settings from any computer, even those that don’t have Firefox installed. It has only been tested on Windows XP/vista. The basic instructions are as follows: Read More»
Firefox has garnered a reputation for being an enormously customizable program, both through its add-on architecture and its internal settings. In fact, many of Firefox’s settings aren’t exposed through the Tools > Options menu; the only way to change them is to edit them manually. In this article, we’ll explore some of the most useful Firefox settings that you can change on your own and that aren’t normally available through the program’s graphical interface.
The closest analogy to how Firefox manages its internal settings is the Windows Registry. Each setting, or preference, is given a name and stored as a string (text), integer (number) or Boolean (true/false) value. However, Firefox doesn’t keep its settings in the registry, but in a file called prefs.js. You can edit prefs.js directly, but it’s often easier to change the settings through the browser window. Read More»
Many assume that the limit of simultaneous download form a server is limited only to Internet Explorer but as it’s a web standard to limit the number of simultaneous download to 2, Firefox also falls under the same category. When you click a couple of files to download in Firefox you might have noticed everything adding up in the download manager but only two files get downloaded form a server at any time.
Note: You might have seen Firefox downloading more than two files at the same time but they may be from different servers.
So, how to increase the number of simultaneous download limit per server in Firefox? Read More»
