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- CloseYetFar, on 10/11/2007, -4/+64Remember to backup your prefs.js file first.
- ggbs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+53one page
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9020880 - TangentThought, on 10/11/2007, -2/+52No wonder it's number one.
- BobbyOnions, on 10/11/2007, -8/+52s/Hacking/Configuring/g
s/secrets/publicly documented parameters/g - zcreem, on 10/11/2007, -0/+40To cut or chop with repeated and irregular blows.
- praveenmarkandu, on 10/11/2007, -2/+40sometimes i wonder whether i am tuning a car or a browser...
- decadence, on 10/11/2007, -2/+39And the keyword system is just so useful! I can't remember the last time I used Google.
- Kamael, on 10/11/2007, -0/+32I guess "hacking" is becoming the synonym to "configure" on digg...
- praveenmarkandu, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20@GawtMilk
i agree what you say about fasterfox, but an adblocker hardly runs server cost up. most ads nowadays are pay per click. its a matter of choice. if i dont want to click them in the first place, why would i want to look at them? i dont want to be told what i need thank you.and yes, i block digg banner ads as well. - Virak, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16A useful one I didn't see in there is to set "layout.spellcheckDefault" to 2, which makes it spell check single-line text input controls as well as multi-line ones.
- Sparkster185, on 10/11/2007, -2/+17@SuperSloth: You should demand a full refund.
- ElbridgeGerry, on 10/11/2007, -9/+24I prefer about:mozilla.
- kindrobot, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16Welcome to digg, where the message is... be nice or courteous and get dugg down.
.... the more you know. - jamytan, on 10/11/2007, -5/+17Good info, thank you !
- ivanisavich, on 10/11/2007, -12/+24Then you need a larger vocabulary.
Quick wit FTW!!! - wisam, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12The first thing I've done when installed Firefox 2.0 is looking for an option to remove the close button on every tab. Just like Firefox 1.5 which had one close button in the tab bar. Thankfully, there was a key/preference to edit.
Just set the value browser.tabs.closeButtons to 3.
It was mentioned in the article. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13for firefox users
about:mozilla
behold the book of mozilla! - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12Leave the network connections to default and do not use fasterfox, the additional traffic costs webmasters additional bandwidth (and therefore money).
- omarciddo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13Opera FTW? WTF?
- decadence, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12Oh cruel internet, why aren't you protecting us from these scary menus?
- mktwo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10GawtMilk, do you realize that prefetching is disabled by default in FasterFox.
Users have to enable that feature themselves.
And, what different will it make between using about:config to enable prefetching and using FasterFox to enable prefetching?
I don't know why people complain about this addon so much. It's just a GUI for about:config.
with FasterFox, at least, webmasters can block prefetching with robots.txt. - mktwo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10If that's the case, webmasters can always block FasterFox requests.
Here's is how: http://skattertech.com/2006/02/how-to-block-fasterfox-requests/ - gurm, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Public documentation:
http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html - fucayama, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8A small caveat should be added about the network/performance tweaks. True it does speed things up on a lot of sites but also a lot of sites will start banning your ip cause it can hammer their servers a bit.
- strazer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Yeah, I like it better that way too, and you can still close single tabs by middle-clicking on them.
- Boomh4u3r, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7nglayout.initialpaint.delay = 0
***** Fantastic - woadlined, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Ah, but yes it is.
"Hacking" is exactly what this is. - Markpdotcom, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Yup, makes closing multiple tabs very easy... you can always CTRL + W, but I'm often too lazy to use my keyboard :D
- bovester, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8Yeah, it's been around for a while, but anyone who's new to Firefox really should check it out. There's no need to bury it. Dugg :-)
- addzero, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6
- artofwar420, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4about:credits
- Stonekeeper, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Aw! nobody has a sense of humour here.
- jcholewa, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4@bekifft
> I know I'll be dug down for this, but it's times like these I always wonder why so many people
> refuse to even try Opera, when it does everything Firefox does and more, and all the options
> aren't hidden in about:config.
Moreover, opera also has about:config (it's actually opera:config, but in the newest version, if you type in about:config it will redirect automatically), but the options listed therein are a bit more descriptive, and there's even a link to get to detailed help on each setting.
I recommend Firefox to the people whose computers I work on. It really helps that they've vaguely heard of it already. - Disjunto, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Select just a word
The Boolean preference layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word governs one of Firefox's tiny, but for me incredibly annoying, little behaviors. When you double-click on a word in a Web page to select it, Firefox automatically includes the space after the word. Most of the time I don't want that; I just want the selection to stop at the end of the word. Setting this to false will defeat that behavior.
Select a word and its punctuation
Somewhat contrarily, if you double-click a word that's next to any kind of punctuation mark, Firefox defaults to selecting only the word itself, not its adjacent punctuation. Set the Boolean preference layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation to false to select the word and its adjacent punctuation.
Is it only me, or does everyone FF default to doing these normally (not selecting space, but selecting punctuation?) - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Where is the public documentation? Can I get to it from the help menu of the browser?
Does it contain a complete and concise listing of the options, including what they do and the various values?
Is there a tutorial available about them? - insanebrain, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5define hacking ...
- BobbyOnions, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Don't think the documentation is up to scratch?
Contribute then.
Be part of the solution, not the problem. - tony23, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2@Bobby -
It's great that you have so much time to contribute to a free project. Some of us have jobs and families to take care of. - SuperSloth, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Wow, I never realized Firefox was never intended to compete based on quality! Silly me. I guess I'll spend what I would have on Firefox and instead spend it on SeaMonkey, Opera, Konqueror, Internet Explorer, or any other browser. Oh, wait. They're *all* free.
I'm a user, not a dev. If you think there's something wrong with that, or that Firefox should only be popular with devs, or that users can't criticize Firefox, you've got some serious reality issues to contend with. - ihatejunk86, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2You can do this in Opera as well. about:config in the address bar.
- monkeyv, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries
- slapthemonkey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Good article!!Thanks!!!!
- rip747, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2buried because of computerworld.
CF lives dammit!!! - pile0nades, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@disjunto (#6933979)
It doesnt do the first one by default on Windows. - blogger123, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1not when you have no bandwidth cap :)
- supaphly42, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yeah, I run firefox on ubuntu, and digg absolutely kills it. I barely visit the site anymore, it just takes too long to do anything.
- SuperSloth, on 10/11/2007, -8/+9Yeah, I have to agree with davev about the complete lack of decent documentation. about:config is the worst configuration UI hack ever. I remember in the pre-1.0 days when everyone said all the options there would be accessible from the regular UI or eliminated.
I say this again: Everytime I have to go into about:config as a user, Mozilla has failed to deliver a well-designed product. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It could be all the JS bogging it down, but it does it to other sites as well.
The browser *should* do it all in the background, then just render it instead of doing it little by little by little. Seems almost backwards.
One thing is for sure, 200-300k isn't a lot of data. Few seconds to transfer it all. Even if you process it all in the background and don't see immediate results, it's better than waiting 2 minutes to render the final view! - Schnep97, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2You. Are. My. Hero.
- FyberOptic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The only "hacking" that happens with Firefox is due to its vulnerability-ridden codebase.
What's that, you ask? Firefox isn't the safest browser? Who would have given you that idea.....? -
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