[rolly]

Even though I don't use Firefox,I know there are quite a few here that do.
I found this list of hacks to make Firefox run quicker at another forum I frequent.
If it helps some here,than some good was done by posting this.
If it's old news,well,I tried!

Firefox Speed Tweaks
Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30-100. This means it will make 30-100 requests at once (try a median number and alter depending on your broadband connection speed).

3. Lastly 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.

network.http.max-connections", 48

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!

4. In IPv6-capable DNS servers, an IPv4 address may be returned when an IPv6 address is requested. It is possible for Mozilla to recover from this misinformation, but a significant delay is introduced.

Type: network.dns.disableIPv6

set this option to true by double clicking on it.

5. CONTENT INTERRUPT PARSING
Right-click anywhere in the about:config window, select New and then Boolean from the pop-up menu. Then:

A. Enter content.interrupt.parsing in the New boolean value pop-up window and click OK

B. When prompted to choose the value for the new boolean, select true and click OK.

6. Rather than wait until a page has completely downloaded to display it to the user, Mozilla applications will regularly render what has been received to that point. This option controls the maximum amount of time the application will be unresponsive while rendering pages.
Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window, select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

A. Enter content.max.tokenizing.time in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK

B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 2250000 and click OK.

7.CONTENT NOTIFY INTERVAL
This option sets the minimum amount of time to wait between reflows. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window, select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

A. Type content.notify.interval in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 750000 and click OK.

8. CONTENT NOTIFY ONTIMER

A. This option sets if to reflow pages at an interval any higher than that specified by content.notify.interval. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Boolean from the pop-up menu.

B. Type content.notify.ontimer in the New boolean value pop-up window and click OK.

C. You will be prompted to choose the value for the new boolean. Select true and click OK.

9. Notify Backoffcount
This option controls the maximum number of times the content will do timer-based reflows. After this number has been reached, the page will only reflow once it is finished downloading. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

A. Enter content.notify.backoffcount in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 5 and click OK.

Fetch only pages that you click

Firefox mostly resembles to Google from this point of view. It has a built-in feature (enabled by default) that will pre-download the pages behind the links it thinks you MIGHT click. Google anticipates you might click the first result from the page, but how in the world can Firefox anticipate the link you’re going to click? Anyway, in my opinion this is just useless bandwidth usage, CPU power and HDD space. You’re practically downloading and storing pages you are not viewing. Here’s how you stop that in three simple steps.

In the about:config list, filter up your search after ‘network’ so it would be easier for you. Then, find through the remaining list options the key that says

network.prefetch-next.
Double click it, and turn it to false.

[vikulenka]

I'll try it Rolly. Many thanks. I am having a lot of problems with Firefox. I dunno, perhaps it's not designed for Mac. It takes forever to load. Once it's running - it's very fast. I only really use it for when I need to connect remotely into my work and when I need to use FlashGot/DownThemAll.

[solaris]

Originally Posted by rolly

Even though I don't use Firefox,I know there are quite a few here that do.
I found this list of hacks to make Firefox run quicker at another forum I frequent.
If it helps some here,than some good was done by posting this.
If it's old news,well,I tried!

Thanks, rolly - but for those who are uncomfortable doing such things themselves, I can recommend this application: http://dl1.totalidea.com/files/public/firetune.zip


FireTune is based on a collection of popular and well working optimization settings used and tested by the experts.


It will optimize several internal settings of Firefox for better performance but does NOT modify the Firefox executable, or any other Firefox binary file.


Everything can be undone easily - provided you saved your original profile configuration file with FireTune’s profile backup feature before.

[chamlin]

Very cool, Rolly and Solaris!

[vikulenka]

Originally Posted by solaris

Thanks, rolly - but for those who are uncomfortable doing such things themselves, I can recommend this application: http://dl1.totalidea.com/files/public/firetune.zip


FireTune is based on a collection of popular and well working optimization settings used and tested by the experts.


It will optimize several internal settings of Firefox for better performance but does NOT modify the Firefox executable, or any other Firefox binary file.


Everything can be undone easily - provided you saved your original profile configuration file with FireTune’s profile backup feature before.

If I could press Thanks more than once on a post, I'd surely do it. I've yet again made an excellent use of the above and would like to thank Solaris for posting this tweak information. FireFox is on Fire!

[gluteus maximus]

One of the things that's always bugged me about Firefox is that there's no equivalent of the IE setting for showing links underlined just when you hover the mouse over them. I came across the fix for this today. It may not be news to regular Firefox users, which I'm not, and most people probably don't care, but here it is anyway, for anyone who likes tweaking.

1. Find your profile folder, which is hidden by default.

For Windows XP users, this will typically be in C:\Documents and Settings\(user name)\Application Data\Mozilla\

For Firefox Portable, it should be in \(FirefoxPortable)\Data\profile\

Or go to http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder for instructions on finding it.

2. Go to the chrome/ subdirectory of your profile.

3. If there is a file there with the name userContent.css, open it in any
plaintext editor such as gvim or WordPad. If it doesn't exist, create it.

4. The file is a CSS style sheet applying to anything loaded in your browser.
You may for instance copy the following into it:

a[href]
{ text-decoration: none !important
}
a[href]:hover
{ text-decoration: underline !important
}

to underline links at mouseover only. (The order is important because the rule
encountered last overrides the one encountered before when both apply.)

6. Save your work, close your editor, and restart Firefox.


Any other CSS decorations are possible: e.g. use the following instead of
the two rules above, to keep links as they are by default, but outline them in
red at mouseover:

a[href]:hover
{ outline: 2px solid red !important
}

gm

[solaris]

Originally Posted by gluteus maximus

One of the things that's always bugged me about Firefox is that there's no equivalent of the IE setting for showing links underlined just when you hover the mouse over them. I came across the fix for this today. It may not be news to regular Firefox users, which I'm not, and most people probably don't care, but here it is anyway, for anyone who likes tweaking.


gm

Thanks, gm

You could, however, also use this handy tool: Text to links (Rapidshare, Megaupload, Filefactory...) - Linkrr

[solaris]

Originally Posted by solaris

Thanks, gm

You could, however, also use this handy tool: Text to links (Rapidshare, Megaupload, Filefactory...) - Linkrr

N.B. There is a Firefox extension for Firefox 3 (and up), which does much the same. It's called Linkification and you can get it here: Linkification 1.3.5 | yellow5.us