Getting the Most Out of Your FireFox

[JiMiThInG]

FireFox has taken the net by storm since it first appeared on the scene. Nearly ever 'computer geek' now uses it as their primary browser. Extensions are a popular way to customize your FireFox. There are also some 'hacks' that you can do to improve preformance. We will cover some of them in this post.
Stopping Pop Up Ads in FireFox – This use to never be a problem but of late webmasters have been finding ways to sneak popups threw to FireFox try this to stop many of them.
Type about:config into the Firefox location bar.
Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer.
Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins
Set the value to 2.
Fix FireFox Flash Plug-in Memory Leak – If you have installed the Flash Plugin for your FireFox you are suffering a memory leak, do this to fix it.
Type about:config into the location bar and press enter
Right click any line to bring up a sub-menu
Choose "new">"integer"
Paste this into the dialogue that appears: browser.cache.memory.capacity
Next click Okay
Specify the amount in kb (about 60000 should do) in the next dialogue that appears Restart Firefox
Some other various hacks (improve load times and general speed)
Type about:config in the address bar, Then look for the following entries, and make the corresponding changes.
Find browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs and double click on it so it = true
network.http.pipelining "true" network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 100 network.http.proxy.pipelining "true" network.http.max-connections 60 network.http.max-connections-per-server 32 network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy 16 network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 8
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[ABC123666]

This is nice but nothing new. It would be great to see a huge list of usefull about.config tweaks somewhere.

[shawners]

This is always nice.. I did a couple of these for kicks, when i get more time. I may do a rundown of it.

[TwoLoud]

Already doen all these tweaks...helped a little bit, but Opera is still faster out of the box...

[shawners]

Yeah, i feel like i waste about .4 of a second or maybe a tad longer since using firefox. I know at the end of the year i may of saved 9-12 minutes browsing. Im not sure if its cause im using usenet and bt at the same time, or if its just the browser itself with the hundreds and thousands of registered torrent users that i visit everday that may slow the site down.

[Krell]

Hey at least he behaves and brings something to the collective here


Thx JiMiThInG


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[JiMiThInG]

Thanx Krell I appreate your kind words.

[FriedSpam]

Sorry for digging this up, but I've had the link on my desktop as something I've been meaining to try for a while.

Just wanted to add a note of caution for anyone wanting to try these tweaks;

DON'T FOLLOW THE INFORMATION ABOVE BLINDLY!


Apparently if you add the 'nglayout.initialpaint.delay' integer, it could actually slow down your browsing.

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/007164.html

also, if you enable 'network.http.pipelining' it could cause pages to be displayed incorrectly. Upping the max connections will stress servers (if you do feel you really need this, maybe try '15' instead?) and could get you banned from certain servers.

I'm not saying not to tweak your browser, I'm just saying that you should think about what you're doing first before you do it!

[d3ft0n3s]

dont forget to mod yo windows registry to get the most out of all of this. tcp to be specific