Firefox
Tips
Firefox
users have an extensive range of add-ons that enhance its performance, security
and usefulness. Most of these are readily available from the Tools, Add-ons
menu option, but others need to be manually installed.
Firefox has
long been criticised for the time it takes to open up, and in defence provided
a FirefoxPreloader that loaded code into memory at Windows startup to shorten
the opening time. That has now been superseded by a manual amendment to its
prefs.js file. The procedure is set out below and significantly shortens the
time for Firefox to open.
Open the
browser.
- Type “about:config”
into the address bar and hit return.
- Type “network.http”
in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to
change them):
- Set “network.http.pipelining”
to “true”
- Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining”
to “true”
- Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests”
to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
Also,
right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay”
and set its value to “0".
This value
is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it
receives.
Close the
browser. Next time you start it, you will notice the difference.
2. I
appreciate the ease of opening links in another tab and automatically shifting
to that tab, and have gotten used to right clicking on the link then left
clicking on the option to open in another tab. But I always wished there was an
easier way. There is.
Simply put
the cursor on the link and press the mouse wheel. The link immediately opens in
a new tab. To close that tab, simply put the cursor on the tab and press the
mouse wheel. Life was meant to be easy.
Enjoy
your computing.
Terry
Bibo.
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