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Firefox Tweaks, Extensions and Optimizations

gomeler.com — Firefox Tweaks, Extensions and Optimizations

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  • DrGamez, on 10/12/2007, -20/+7Thanks for the link, good stuff but one of theses "guides" for firefox pops up every other day. The people who read them already have what they need.
    • soogy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Yep, we seem to have these pop up on Digg every day (like those dreaded color harmony sites), however, this site explains everything cleanly and clearly and provides screenshots to make it easier. He also explains the tweaks in a simple blurb for each, rather than a long ass speech or no explanation at all.

      Good article.
    • ccanni1028, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22I have found a website with the ULTIMATE list of firefox extensions.

      https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/extensions/
  • bullockd, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5I think what makes this unique are the hacks
  • secretdiffusion, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Good page to read and follow. The only problem I had with it is that none of those are "hacks", as the page described them. They are, as said in the title, tweaks.
  • gomeler, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3While these aren't actual software hacks, everyone online refers to them as hacks, so I continued this trend, sorry about jumping on the bandwagon. In regards to these guides popping up all the time, I realized that and that is why I wrote this in an attempt to test everything and post the ones that worked for me and show examples. This was less of a guide and more of a compilation of everything online and a few things I liked. If you know of something that is missing, do please leave a comment with the details and I'll add it.
  • IntelMac, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2great stuff, didnt know about any of those tweaks.
  • Jrr6415sun, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0anyone know which tweaks work really well?
  • caffiend, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2The Fasterfox extension does the same thing as his network hack plus more. http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/

    I like the Download Manager hacks too. Good stuff here.

    dugg
    • nocode, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0agreed, the download manager used to annoy the hell out of me with my old computer while running too many programs. even with a faster computer, its still annoying! haven't tried it out yet (at work), but will try it out when i get home :)
  • CaptainMal, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8How many of these Firefox tweak guides do we need?

    I mean like, per day.
    • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1as many as it takes to hammer "FIREFOX HAX!!" into our nightmares.
    • Settra, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2oh gnoes not ff hax :(
  • BassCadet, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Can we get tweaks for other software? I think all of us know all the tricks to Firefox by now.

    Why not give us the WinAmp hack that halves memory usage? I have never seen anybody discuss that here. And nope, I don't remember how to do it. :o
    • fatb0b, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Instead of using WinAmp try XMPlay, much less of a resource hog.
      http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html
    • BassCadet, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Fatb0b - thank you. I will check that out!

      My Foxy Tunes extension even supports XMPlay! Woot.
    • twistymcgee, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Perhaps someone should start up a community based "Software Hacks" website. Then you could have one spot to go and find tweaks and hacks for whatever software you want.
  • fani, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Will people stop posting so many of the same firefox tweaks.
    Its getting annoying.

  • Kirti, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2While this is a good list of hacks/extentions, I don't understand the craze with making Firefox faster. Most of us are running machines where firefox is already running really quickly. I'm willing to wait 1 second between two pages loading. Also, most computers have more than enough memory to handle firefox running out of the box and there is probably plenty of it to spare.

    But for those that really do need to lower the memory footprint of firefox, this is good stuff.

    - KRK
  • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3you have got to be kidding me, how do these constantly get to the front page? maybe digg should make a special section for these called "FF HAX".
  • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -9/+0-DELETED-
  • wnysteel, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3what is firefox?
  • Hush, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3If I start ff by reaching over and clicking the mouse button with my left hand, would that count as a hack?
  • PowerCow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1now explain the difference between tweak and optimizations


    despise the comment toring test
  • fuxjoey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I found these hacks really useful, especially the Minimize hack which reduced half of its memory usage, Download Manager hack which let me modify how the pop up download manager behave and finally Reveal is freaking cool and useful cuz i always have like 10 tabs open.
  • boycy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3god I've never seen this stuff before...
    Also, under the Network 'hack':
    >> 2c. Find the entry called “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” and set it to 16-32, at your digression.

    at my digression??? That's a serious malapropism if ever I saw one.
    • gomeler, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Good point, I wrote that and thought I was using the right word, corrected.
    • boycy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Ugh and again under 'TabX'.
      I think you mean 'discretion'...
  • CornStarch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Here is an alternative to the download manager hack, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/26/

    It works pretty good and loads at the bottom on a bar instead of opening a window, and you can set it to do a variety of thing: Close when DL done, do not automatically open file ect...
  • Burmask, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Yawn.
  • chad78, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Why didn't you just say "The title says it all" instead of typing the title twice? People need to work on their "editorial skills."
    • CornStarch, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0You know those things that people bitch about that probably aren't worth bitching about?
    • bigpeeler, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Hey, maybe the dude stutters.
  • hollywoodone, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1http://gomeler.WEALREADYKNOW/2006/04/10/firefox-tweaks-extensions-and-optimizations/
  • DamienThorn, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0It was nicely laid out, though including even more tweaks than these would have been nice.
  • MaxWebster, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5The best hack evar!!!
    1.) Uninstall FF
    2.) Install Opera. Its safer, more stable and twice as fast. It's also not a memory hog. Easily blows FF away.
    3.) Duck, because all The FF fanboys will try to kill you.
    • CornStarch, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I liked Opera, but it wouldn't let me move the tab bar below the address bar or something like that so I ditched it.
  • rushoffailure, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1All these violations of RFC 2616 are makin my penis soft.
  • DigitalDud, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Is there a hack to not use 800 megs of RAM on a page with tons of GIF animations?
    • DigitalDud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What? You think I'm joking, try it: http://cygnus_x-1.shackspace.com/kiss.htm (Not work safe)
    • coopa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Just checked out that site you posted, with my ff 1.5.0.1 with 19 extensions and 6 tabs open it used about 200meg of RAM, when minimized the usage drops to 10meg (using the config.trim_on_minimize set to true in about:config).

      I'm not saying ff is great at it, but because early ff releases did have memory leaks then ff is always going to have that finger pointed at it. I use Opera as well, and yes it's quicker to load and uses less memory (on average) but i can't have all the ease of use and functionality that I get from FF.
    • DigitalDud, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Try refreshing the page, each refresh literally adds another 200 megs.
    • coopa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1There's definitely is an increase, after 3 or 4 refreshes my usage went from approx. 200 up to approx 400meg, but again when i minimize it drops to around 10meg and doesn't rise. Though, it does once i max/restore it...but only to approx 200meg. Again, I'm not trying to say you're wrong, I'm just saying don't point the finger straight at memory leaks.

      My FF was crashing constantly and using all the memory and CPU cycles until i started on a fresh install on Windows XP (nothing to do with FF, my Windows partition was just bogged down), since restarting my computer and FF again it's not crashed once and memory usage is well within reason.
  • VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2How do you hack something that's open source? lol
  • SuicideInvoice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The jury is still out on modifying the pipelining max requests. If 3 people jack that up to 30ish and hit a small website at the same time, it could bring it down. Just cause you can, doesn't mean you should.
  • blaksaga, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Isn't it funny how people complain about firefox's memory usage but then proceed to use 10+ different extensions.
  • Nodren, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4there are several tweaks here which i havnt yet seen on any story like this.. good find.
  • SerialMartini, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I'm pretty sick of these things popping up every day or two because everyone on digg is obsessed with Firefox. Its like all the pointless Mac articles that get on just because it has the word 'Apple' in it.
    • pigdart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well If you want to get your post on the front page try "Firefox, Apple and Ajax walk in to a bar..."
  • xpgeek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3When will people learn ?

    network. http. pipelining. maxrequests
    Determines the maximum number of HTTP requests in the pipeline (sent sequentially without waiting for a response). Values greater than 8 are assumed to be 8; values less than 1 are assumed to be 1.
    From : http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries

    Meaning, its totally useless to set it at anything higher then 8, which is a built in limit.
  • elgato65, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Dug for the download manager tweak.
  • CrAzYKiLa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0This Article kicks ass, people should post more of these up
  • thecorch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm still looking for a mouse gestures extension that will allow you to use gestures while the page is still loading.
  • Shikkyn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Even with all of these tips, firefox for me is still extremely slow and barely functional. This is a reason why it will NEVER be more popular then IE. (Sorry, but this is a fact).
  • Jrr6415sun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0aren't all those add-ons out of date?
  • HayaBusaMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great site with tweaks :) Love it :-) Keep up the good work man :)
    Regards from Norway.
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