Tag: preference

How to use About:Config for Firefox 3

June 25, 2008 by Jason

If you’ve been following our site you’re probably already familiar with how the about: works in , but since several of these utilize the about: screen I figured it wouldn’t hurt to provide a crash course. So before we dive into the glance through to make sure you know make the adjustments, or just reference this section when you need it.

1. Start .

2. about: into the address bar and press Enter. When you’re presented with the warning screen click the I’ll be careful, I promise button.

3.You should see a long list of that look meaningless and confusingly complicated. Read More»

Speed Up Firefox Page Rendering

September 03, 2007 by Jason

Mozilla applications render pages incrementally - they display what’s been received of a page before the entire page has been downloaded. Since the start of a page normally doesn’t have much useful information to display, Mozilla applications will wait a short interval before first rendering a page: by default, doesn’t try to render a page for 250 milliseconds while it’s waiting for data.

If you use about: to add the Integer nglayout.initialpaint.delay, and set the value to 0, immediately starts to display the page, even without complete data (lower values will make a page display more quickly, Read More»

Firefox about:config Fixup

August 17, 2007 by Jason

By default, the about: automatically detects preferences and displays the setting. But if you are a working on customizing the default , this can be very confusing. This little extension “fixes” the default behavior to display the chrome of the .properties file.

Works with 2 -> 2.0.0.* Read More»

Speed It Up a Notch

February 01, 2007 by Jason

One easy, cool you might want to deals with speed. By default, runs fast enough—it’s like driving at the speed limit. But if you want to push your browsing experience, modify a few in about:. Note that these edits are for broadband connections only; if you’re still dialing up, you’re stuck with whatever speed you’ve got.
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