TechCombo » about:config http://techcombo.com Technology, Health and News Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:16:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to make Firefox faster http://techcombo.com/2009/08/16/how-to-make-firefox-faster-123/ http://techcombo.com/2009/08/16/how-to-make-firefox-faster-123/#comments Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:49:04 +0000 Michael Ashworth http://techcombo.com/?p=1155 Many of us find that Firefox is a lot of slower than other browsing such as Chrome and Opera. This a definitely a major drawback for the open source browser since if it was faster, it would be the number one browser by quite a distance!

Follow these nine top tips which will your browsing experience silky smooth!

-Requirements -
***FireFox (Windows)***
***FireFox (MAC)***

1. Open firefox and type the following in the address bar: about:config

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2. Right click> New> integer

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3. a window will come up name it: layout’s.initialpaint.delay

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(After this, click the ok button)

4. Another box will come up change that to: 0

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Now, in the filter box which is located just below the addressbar and tabs, is something called the filter bar. It’s role is to sort out the text and it narrows down what you type in the box

5. Type the following in the filter bar: network.http.proxy.pipelining
once located double click so it is then set to true and not false

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6. Do the same to: network.http.pipelining

7. Now, you will see both are set to true

8.  Try to find network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Double click on that and a window will come up, then change that to around “1000″ though you can go higher (some people say 30) i just havent tried it yet but sometimes if you do go higher it doesnt go as fast but “1000″ loads really abruptly.

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9 ok now that that is what step 5-8 should look like

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^^EXTRAS^^^^
**NOTE::**
–If your pc is already abnormally quick and you have a fast internet service provider (ISP), then you probably will not notice much difference in browsing speed. However, with these tips who know’s how fast your browsing speed can become!

– In addition, if you would like to increase the speed of your virtual ram, use these instructions below:

1) Go into your Control Panel

2) Go to Performance and Maintenance

3) Click on the Advanced tab

4) Under the Performance panel, click Settings

5) On the window that pops up, you should be on the “Visual Effects” tab…navigate to Advanced

6) On the bottom panel where it says “Virtual Memory,” click change

7) Change the initial size to about 3000 and change the max to 4096

Did you find this article useful? Are there any other tips you’d like to add? Please feel free to comment below!

]]> http://techcombo.com/2009/08/16/how-to-make-firefox-faster-123/feed/ 5 Video: Make old add-ons operate with Firefox betas http://techcombo.com/2009/07/15/video-make-old-add-ons-operate-with-firefox-betas-123/ http://techcombo.com/2009/07/15/video-make-old-add-ons-operate-with-firefox-betas-123/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:08:04 +0000 Paul Young http://techcombo.com/?p=844 If you are a Firefox addict, you would have realised that many of the Firefox betas are not compatable with the surplus of add-ons you have accumulated over time. Thus, in a recent eposide from CNET’s show Hacks, Executive Editor Tom Merritt demonstrates another brilliant and useful about:config hack which will allow your trusty add-ons to work with any Firefox beta release. Let’s face it, Firefox is nothing without its awesome add-ons!

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Hints and tricks to make your online experience the best it can be!

Hints and tricks to make your online experience the best it can be!

1. about:config This has to be one of the most interesting things you can do with Firefox. You can customize the browser completely with this, and I’ll just show you a select few of useful features. So to start, I will demonstrate how to speed up your browsing.

In the address bar, type about:config and promise to be careful…

Use the filter tool to find network.http.pipelining double click on it so it becomes Truenetworkhttppipelining

Filter again for network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set it to a value like 8 (or greater if your really desperate..)

Another filter! plugin.expose_full_path and again, double click.

Filter this time for network.http.proxy.pipelining and make it true, by double clicking again.

Again, filter for network.dns.disableIPv6 again, double click on this to make it true.

These are the basics, and there is a lot more in there to play with if you know what you are doing, though this will speed up your browser indefinitely.

2. Addons There are some really good add-ons that I recommend you use, which you can see below:

3. Mouse Shortcuts

Zoom in and out of the site that you are viewing with ctrl + mouse wheel.

To open a link in a new tab, middle click on it. To close a tab, middle click on it.

To open a blank tab,  double click on the tab bar where there are no tabs.

4. Keyboard Shortcuts

Ctrl + t opens a new tab (many know this all ready).

Ctrl + tab moves one tab to the right.

Ctrl + r does the same as f5 (reloads the page)

Esc stops the page from loading.

If you type something in the address bar, and press ctrl + enter, it automatically changes it into www.[your text].com

Ctrl 1 – 9 changes to the corresponding tab.

Ctrl + d bookmarks the current page.

Ctrl + Shift + Del deletes private data (ie. history, passwords, cookies etc)

There are many more, but thats not for just now.

5. Dragging and Dropping You can drag items all over the place in firefox, for example, to quickly bookmark a page, you can simply drag its favicon into your bookmarks menu or toolbar. You can also drag links into your bookmarks. If you drag a link on a site into the address bar, you will be taken to that page. If you drag a link into the search bar, you will automatically search it. You can select text, and then drag it into the search bar. :)

6.Customizing toolbars

You can change the way your toolbars look by going into View > Toolbars > Customize then playing with the different things. Currently mine isn’t too different, as you can see below.

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If you want to get it back to how it was originally, just go into that menu, and press Restore Default Set

7. Various

You can set keywords for bookmarks, these can be set when you bookmark it initially, or afterwards by right clicking on the bookmark >>properties >> and then typing in your keyword in the “Keyword” field.

If you install the StumbleUpon addon, you can stumble in another tab by middle clicking on the “Stumble!” button.

Thankyou for reading and if you have anything to add to this list, feel free to by commenting below as well as any other feedback.

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