Tweak Your Firefox for Super Fast Web Browsing

Fast loading web pages while surfing the Internet may have more to do with your web browser settings and preferences than your Internet connection speed.


Try these easy Firefox tweaks and you’ll see that you’re surfing the Internet from 3 to 30 times faster!

• To get started, open your Firefox web browser. In the address/location bar type about:config and then press your Enter key.

• In the Filter bar type network.http.pipelining. Then, double-click on this line under Preference Name in order to change the value from False to True.

• In the Filter bar type network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. Then, double-click on this line under Preference Name and change the value from 4 to a higher number anywhere from 10 to 30. I set mine to 30.

• In the Filter bar type network.http.proxy.pipelining. Then, double-click on this line under Preference Name in order to change the value from False to True.

• In the Filter bar type network.dns.disableIPv6. Then, double-click on this line under Preference Name in order to change the value from False to True.

• In the Filter bar type plugin.expose_full_path. Then, double-click on this line under Preference Name in order to change the value from False to True.

• In the Filter bar type network.protocol-handler.external.ms-help. Now, you are going to create a new Preference Name with an Integer Value. To do this, right-click on this line under Preference Name and select New, then Integer. In the New Integer value box type in nglayout.initialpaint.delay and click OK. Then in the Enter Integer value box type 0 (that’s a zero) and click OK.

• In the Filter bar again type network.protocol-handler.external.ms-help. Now, you are going to create another new Preference Name with an Integer Value. To do this, right-click on this line under Preference Name and select New, then Integer. In the New Integer value box type in content.notify.backoffcount and click OK. Then in the Enter Integer value box type 5 and click OK.

• In the Filter bar again type network.protocol-handler.external.ms-help. Now, you are going to create another new Preference Name with an Integer Value. To do this, right-click on this line under Preference Name and select New, then Integer. In the New Integer value box type in ui.submenuDelay and click OK. Then in the Enter Integer value box type 0 (that’s a zero) and click OK.

Now, close your web browser and restart it. You’ll see how much faster web pages are loading. I sure did.

Operate Firefox faster with Shortcuts

These are short and simple tips to make browsing easier. Middle-click refers to pushing down the mouse wheel in the center of your mouse, if your mouse wheel does not support middle-clicking then Crtl+left-click works the same. Laptops utilize both left+right-click as the middle-click button.


Open a blank 'New Tab'
Double-click empty space on the Tab Bar


Open a bookmark in a new tab
Middle-click on the bookmark


Close a tab
Middle-click on the tab will close it


Open your homepage in a new tab
Middle-click on the homepage button to open your homepage in a new tab


Navigate tabs with the keyboard
Ctrl+Tab to navigate tabs to the right.
Crtl+Shift+Tab to navigate the tabs to the left.
Even quicker way is Ctrl+[# of tab]


Set mutliple Home pages
Tools---->Options--->General and seperate each page with the pipe | symbol
(Shift+button above the enter button)
eg. http://forums.mozillazine.org|http://www.google.com|


Rearrange add/remove Icons on the toolbar
Toolbars: View--->ToolBars--->Customize


Let Firefox complete web addresses for you
Type in something like 'yahoo' in the address bar and hit:
Ctrl+Enter to add . before and .com after the text
Similarly, Shift+Enter will add . and .net
and Ctrl+Shift+Enter will add . and .org


Bookmark the current page
3 Simple ways:

• Hit Ctrl+D,
• drag the icon from the location bar to your Bookmarks folder,
• or you can drag the icon to the desktop to make an shorcut for that page

Increase/Decrease font size
Hold Ctrl AND press + or -


Save all open tabs in a bookmark folder
Ctl-D or Bookmarks--->Bookmark This Page, select the "bookmark all tabs in a folder", then select or create a folder


Stop animated gifs from moving
Press the ESC key


Bookmark an Livebookmark (RSS Feed) if the site offers them
Click the orange button on the status bar and select 'subscribe to rss feed'


Add a keyword for a bookmark
You can give "keywords" to your bookmarks by right-clicking the bookmark and then Properties. If you put a string in the keyword field now you can type that keyword in the address bar and it will go to that bookmark. For example, if I have a bookmark for Fox News website, I might give it the keyword "news". Now, when I type "news" in the address bar and hit 'enter', the Fox News site is loaded.

Mac OS X Leopard is supported on New FireFox 2.0.0.8

Mozilla has released released Firefox 2.0.0.8 web browser. Notable in this release is the addition of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) support.

Other issues with the latest Firefox on Leopard surround the interface. For example, the Advanced tabs in Preferences will not render properly.
Those who are heavy tab users should be careful when using the Close Other Tabs action on the shortcut menu of a tab, as it can fail with an error when more than 20 tabs are open.

Firefox is even more multilingual now with official support for Georgian (ka) and Romanian (ro), and a beta release for Kurdish (ku).

Several critical, moderate and low security issues were fixed, such as crashes with evidence of memory corruption. Other issues patched include the possible file stealing through sftp protocol, file input focus stealing vulnerability and XPCNativeWrapper pollution using Script object.

Internet users can download 2.0.0.8 from Mozilla's homepage and current users of older versions may use the auto update function within the browser.

Speed up your Mozilla Firefox

Speed up FireFox with this hack:

• Generally, typing about:config in adress bar of Firefox.
• Goto line network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining. As default, this is false.
• Double click in this key, select Toggle change to true.
• Change key network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 30.
• Right click, select New > Integer, name the new key is nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set value is 0

According to your computer you can adjust like this:


FAST COMPUTER, FAST CONNECTION

content.interrupt.parsing, true;
content.max.tokenizing.time, 2250000;
content.notify.interval, 750000;
content.notify.ontimer, true;
content.switch.threshold, 750000;
nglayout.initialpaint.delay, 0;
network.http.max-connections, 48;
network.http.max-connections-per-server, 16;
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy, 16;
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server, 8;
browser.cache.memory.capacity, 65536;

FAST COMPUTER, SLOWER CONNECTION

content.max.tokenizing.time, 2250000;
content.notify.interval, 750000;
content.notify.ontimer, true;
content.switch.threshold, 750000;
network.http.max-connections, 48;
network.http.max-connections-per-server, 16;
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy, 16;
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server, 8;
nglayout.initialpaint.delay, 0;
browser.cache.memory.capacity, 65536;

FAST COMPUTER, SLOW CONNECTION

browser.xul.error_pages.enabled, true;
content.interrupt.parsing, true;
content.max.tokenizing.time, 3000000;
content.maxtextrun 8191;
content.notify.interval, 750000;
content.notify.ontimer, true;
content.switch.threshold, 750000;
network.http.max-connections, 32;
network.http.max-connections-per-server, 8;
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy, 8;
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server, 4;
nglayout.initialpaint.delay, 0;
browser.cache.memory.capacity, 65536;

SLOW COMPUTER, FAST CONNECTION

content.max.tokenizing.time, 3000000;
content.notify.backoffcount, 5;
content.notify.interval, 1000000;
content.notify.ontimer, true;
content.switch.threshold, 1000000;
content.maxtextrun, 4095;
nglayout.initialpaint.delay, 1000;
network.http.max-connections, 48;
network.http.max-connections-per-server, 16;
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy, 16;
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server, 8;
dom.disable_window_status_change, true;

DIAL-UP

content.max.tokenizing.time, 2250000;
content.notify.interval, 750000;
content.notify.ontimer, true;
content.switch.threshold, 750000;
nglayout.initialpaint.delay, 750;
network.http.max-connections, 32;
network.http.max-connections-per-server, 8;
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy, 8;
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server, 4;
dom.disable_window_status_change, true;

Fixing The Firefox Memory Leak

In case you didn’t know Firefox has a small memory leakage problems that can cause your pc to freeze up. Basically what happens is when you minimize Firefox it stops consuming memory, however when you maximize it again the memory usage will increase, sometimes even doubling.

Fortunately, there is a small fix that you can implement. Here's what you do:

Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.
Now select True and then press Enter.
Restart Firefox.

Wuuuush! Firefox will stop eating your memory.