Improving your Firefox web browser

[YorkshireLad6 7,152]

For those Firefox users out there, you may like to be aware of a couple of tricks to improve your browsing pleasure

 

Open Firefox 1.0 and in the address bar type: about:config

1. Find browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs and double click on it so it = true
   
2. Find network.http.pipelining and double click on it so it = true
   
3. Find network.http.pipelining.maxrequests double click on it and change it from 4 to 100
   

1. 
   What do these changes do?
   
2. This enables advanced tab options in your Tools/Options page
   
3. This enables option #3.
   
4. This makes FF use 8 threads to each page.. Bascially, if you thought FF was fast before, try it after this.
   

If you want to make it look better visit the Mozilla Firefox Themes page and select a theme that looks good to you. I personally like the Noia eXtreme skin, but choose one that looks good to you.

 

 

Are you sick of Google Ads on everyone's page? Well tell firefox that you don't want to see them anymore. This hack will remove 95% of all Ads, including google Ads. (Yes, even from Gmail. Warning, Removing these ads may violate the TOS of Gmail)

 

This hack uses the magic of CSS and a Firefox configuration file named UserContent.css. We are going to edit this file, I suggest you download the plugin ChromEdit to make your job easier. (Go install it now & come back after restart)

 

Ok, now that you have ChromEdit installed, open Firefox and click on Tools / Edit User files. A new window will appear that has five tabs across the top. Click on the tab that is labeled userContent.css. Next click on the link below and copy all the text. Then paste it into the userContent.css file, then click the Save button.

Code

 

Now restart your browser.. Tada, Google ads are gone!

 

N.B. The above rules make use of the *!important* property value to override any rules that may already exist within the page that is being loaded. In the first rule, GMail has an element with an id of rh and we are setting the tables that have a class equal to metatable within that element, to not display (ie . display:none)

A word of caution, we are only hiding the ads from displaying. They are actually still there, just not visible. This means that Google is still indexing your email messages to provide you with “targetted ads

[Guest]

WOW... This is all GOOD News... May be i give a try. Danke YL6. btw, are you part of FF Dev team?

[YorkshireLad6 7,152]

 

... are you part of FF Dev team?

No, but I recently bumped into someone who is a major contributor to the project...

More to come when I have time...

[MysteryMan 16]

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.ph...page=15&start=0

[eurovol 126]

I downloaded FF at work today as I am tired of how slow IE has gotten and the fact the shit crashes constantly now for about two months.

I will switch at home when I have some free time and will do the above. Thanks much for the VD gift! ;)

[Schotte 1,403]

is it really much faster this FF? i just switched and dont notice a difference yet.. though it may be something to do with my current constant cutting out internet.

[ZeeMe 11]

I was running both FF & Moz. I found mozilla slightly better. I think if they combine the two together, then you´ll have ultimate browser

[Keydeck 9,248]

Not sure if these tips are all the same ones listed above but worth a looksee.

[YorkshireLad6 7,152]

 

Not sure if these tips are all the same ones listed above but worth a looksee.

Sorry - I'd not seen those - the acceleration tips are very similar.

 

I use Firefox, maybe 80% of the time. It's a cleaner interface, definately faster and less prone to invasion problems such as popups and advertising. However, it's not perfect - there are many sites I visit that can only be viewed under IE. Whether that's a Firefox problem or simply that the site has been "optimised" for IE is debatable (but probably the latter).

 

YL6

[willy 13]

I'm running FF also ...

 

Any idea how I can enable fonts/colors when composing messages using Yahoo Mail?

[Kings Town 3]

For those of you who like adding smilies to forums, this add-in for Firefox might be of interest.

 

It's an integrated button that allows you to browse for smilies on the internet.. pretty cool.

 

KT

[Kings Town 3]

 

I'm running FF also ...

 

Any idea how I can enable fonts/colors when composing messages using Yahoo Mail?

 

 

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Willy, have you been able to change fonts/colours using IE and can't do it with FF? just trying to avoid the possibility that Yahoo! Mail doesn't support it.

 

KT

[Kings Town 3]

This is more of a system software question, but maybe FF has the flexibility... On my Mac i can click in the scroll bar, and the slider jumps to the place i click... on the PC, if, say i am at the top of the page and want to jump to the bottom i need to click and drag OR click a few times... either way i probably lose 5 mins a day for this simple difference...

 

Make sense?

 

Any ideas?

 

KT

[karambos 4]

thanks to all for the tips.

 

Question: if I want to have the same FF settings / environment on the computer at home and the computer at work (or anywhere else, for that matter), can I simply carry the profile folder around with me on a USB stick and just copy it into the aaplication data folder on the new computer?

[willy 13]

@ Kingstown,

 

Yeah, when using IE I have the option to enable Yahoo!Mail font/color. I'm also thinking that FF doesn't support it.

[pepper 8]

 

OK, now I have a lot of smiley faces. Just have to find a excuse to use them !

[Propellor Head 0]

Maybe Editor Bob can give us an insight into the percentage of TT visitors who are using FF. You can count me in. I've even taken to emailing webmasters who love IE telling them their code is broken as it won't render in a normal browser like Konqueror or FF.

[Kings Town 3]

@Willy:

 

It looks like that Yahoo! mail feature is only supported by IE 5.5 and above.. see here

 

Sorry..

 

Looks like Microsoft are in bed with Yahoo!

 

KT

[Kings Town 3]

Thought this was appropriate for this thread...

 

[profundo 42]

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