How to tweak Firefox

[MLibid]

Get Firefox NowFor those of you who have not lived under a rock for the last six months, you have probably heard of FireFox. It is completely free and open-source (anyone can make extensions, themes, or add-ons) web browser by Mozilla. I will give you a guarantee that it kills Internet Explorer in every aspect. Speed, security, look, add ons, extensions, themes, tabs... bottom line: Firefox is the best. If you have not tried it, at least give it a try. One of the best features of FireFox is the ability to download extensions that people have made and edit some of the values. The first thing we are going to do is speed up our page load times a LOT with these few simple tweaks.Open up FireFox, and in the Address Bar type in about:config and press enter.This has all of the values stored inside of the browser and can be edited.Change browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs to trueThis will enable some tab options inside the options menu. Through this you can tell FireFox to have a website open in a new tab instead of a new window when requested and whatever else. This will not speed up FireFox, but it is good to do.Change network.http.pipelining to trueThis enables pipelining. Without getting into detail, it speeds up FireFox BIG time.Change network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 100This will use the newly enabled pipelining feature at 100. Again, speeds up FireFox BIG time.Now, in the about.config, right click and press New. Choose integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay with a value of 0. This is the amount of time the browser will wait before acting on information it comes across.There is one utility to auto-optimize FireFox called FireTune. This will change the values like the ones that you see above, along with many other advanced settings that will substantially improve page load times and browser speed. I have not used it myself, as I prefer to optimize my own settings, but it is another alternative to those of you who do not wish to go messing around in your firefox about:config manually.Finally, there is one good FireFox extension for speeding up browser performance...FasterFox: Works on the same principles as the editing you have done in About:Config yourself, but does other things as well to optimize performance. I HIGHLY recommend this extension for anyone user FireFox.<u>Some other extensions to consider</u>NoScript - NoScript adds protection to your security by dis-allowing web-pages to load Javascript, Java or other plug-ins unless you specify otherwise for that site.Ad-Block - Allows the blocking of ads by simply right clicking the ad in firefox adblock on the ad.

If you want to change FireFox look a little bit, you could get a nice Theme . Personally, I use Noia 2.0 (eXtreme). All that a theme does, is change the look much like a skin does in an application. All of these are hosted right on the FireFox site and they personally check all of them, so you don't have to worry about anything.I hope that if you already use FireFox, that you try this and enjoy the big performance boost. For those of you still on IE, I hope that you will at least give FireFox a chance. It really is faster, stronger and more secure.I also posted this so that everyone who has been complaining about the speed of NFLC loading could feel a little better and experience a little bit more of the NFLC New Skins without lagging.Venom, can I pin this?

 

[PurplePeopleEaters]

Cool. I used all the little tricks mentioned and it is loading faster than usual. That adblock thing looks cool too.

 

[Nebkreb]

wow thanks a loti dled the adblock, and it said that it will install after i restart Firefox. i restarted firefox, now what do i do??

 

[JHair]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nebkreb @ Aug 13 2006, 09:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>i dled the adblock, and it said that it will install after i restart Firefox. i restarted firefox, now what do i do??</div>It installed already, you just needed to restart Firefox for it to take any effect. You don't gotta do anything

 

[Nebkreb]

ok i did that, but when i go to a website (for example, espn.com) and rightclick on the ads, there is nothing about adblock :-(

 

[JHair]

Mine works, it says "Addblock Image", try installing it again.

 

[Jon_Vilma]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Matt @ Aug 12 2006, 09:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>

Get Firefox NowFor those of you who have not lived under a rock for the last six months</div>I've had firefox for over a year.

 

[JHair]

Same ^^ since it came out

 

[Nebkreb]

ok jhair - i reDLed it, and it just says that it will automatically install whn i restart Firefox, so i closed all the Firefox windows, along with my GAIM (my instant messaging service) and reopened them. nothing.

 

[JHair]

Weird, maybe restart your computer? I donno what else you could really do...See the thing that says File, Edit, View, Go, etc...Click the Tools one and see if Adblock even shows up on it

 

[Nebkreb]

now it kinda works, some ads, when i rightlick, i can see the adblock. but with a lotta ads, i cant

 

[PurplePeopleEaters]

It worked alright for me. From this page, the NFLC home page loaded in 0.531 seconds.

 

[MLibid]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PurplePeopleEaters @ Aug 13 2006, 08:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>It worked alright for me. From this page, the NFLC home page loaded in 0.531 seconds.</div>Exactly.Thank you for your feedback.

 

[Nebkreb]

the only website where it takes a while is mazewars.com (dunno if u heard of it, doesnt matter)other than that, its fine. i got a new theme, i used IFox Orangeit sucks becaue i have Firefox 1.0. where can i get updates?

 

[MLibid]

Official Mozilla SiteIt also was in my original post.

I wuoldn't recommend using skins because it does lag you a bit. It's your choice though. If you'd rather have a cool looking browser than a faster one.

 

[chang]

The only thing I have is pop-up blocker. Ads I can deal with cause if it weren't for ads, most sites wouldn't be online.

 

[Nebkreb]

i got a new skin. its nice. and i got a couple new extensions.

 

[Flockers]

Thanks for the tweaks. Firefox is running faster than it was before. :beerbang2:

 

[Nebkreb]

mine runs the same, but i like the extensions and theme :drinks:

 

[Jon_Vilma]

[quote name='Matt' post='64334' date='Aug 14 2006, 05:59 PM'][quote name='Jon_Vilma' post='64166' date='Aug 13 2006, 10:37 PM'][quote name='Matt' post='64154' date='Aug 13 2006, 06:04 PM'][quote name='PurplePeopleEaters' post='64136' date='Aug 13 2006, 08:44 PM']It worked alright for me. From this page, the NFLC home page loaded in 0.531 seconds.[/quote]Exactly.Thank you for your feedback.

[/quote]I see you only want positive feedback and not honest feedback. How mature.I disabled the script extension and it's now running about the same as my old extensions. So Fasterfox is doing nothing in reality, but I'll keep the adblocker.[/quote]I thank everyone for their feedback. It would just be better if they weren't whining feedbacks. :closedeyes:[/quote]You mean like this?http://nflcentral.net/forum/index.php?s=&s...indpost&p=64122Your extensions helped a couple of us none, in fact it made me worse until I corrected it. Don't just mad because you thought you were going to be praised by all for making their pages run faster, but instead only helped the few who are behind the times.

 

[Nebkreb]

hey! im not behind the times!

 

[chang]

Here's more. http://www.download.com/Best-Firefox-exten..._4-5154257.htmlI installed a few of them.

 

[Capt. Comeback]

You want a faster internet? Go get a free upgrade from your cable company on a modem if you have cable. That's what I did today, my computer now works 100x faster.

 

[chang]

I'm not a big sucker for speed. I'm more concerned about security and whatnot. I have a bunch of programs to detect incoming ISP and threats and stuff.Yeah, I'm paranoid but better safe than sorry.