Firefox Extensions and tweaks

megamaced

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DavidNW

This will make a Massive difference to your browsing speed and is very simple to do!

1. type "about:config" in the address bar of firefox, push enter.
2. Enter "Pipe" into the Filter bar (the last step loads a local configuration page).
3. To Enable an option or change its value, double click it.
   • Enable "network.http.pipelining"
   • change the value of "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" from 4 to 100
   • Enable "network.http.proxy.pipelining"
4. Try it! this tweak turns firefox into a speeding bullet!

Thanks very much for the useful post. I'm trying to make the above changes in Mandriva 2006. Are these tweaks applicable to Linux? I ask because when you say 'Enable' the 3 abovementioned values after double-clicking on them, the only options I get are 'Default' and 'User Set' Would selecting 'User Set' be what you mean by Enable'? I'm very new to this sort of thing, so forgive the ignorance.

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Impotence

I Wrote the Guide in linux!

Your looking at the wrong colum There should be four colums, "Preference Name, Status, Type, Value" and on the end of the bar there is a small square, if you dont have all the colums just mentioned click it and make sure the first 3 options are checked, and then click the 4th

does that help?

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DavidNW

I think I was looking in thr right place first off. Anyway, thanks, it now seems considerably faster.

Please see screenshot of how the configuration looks for confirmation. All 3 options are checked in the small square on the end of the bar (although these do not show up in the screenshot).

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Impotence

Yup, You've done that one successfuly!

i would also reccoemnd [Below] as it removes the pause between recieving content and starting to display it.... by defualt forefox waits 250ms (1/4 of a second)

Render Pages immediately

This tweak changes amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives to zero!

1. Type "about:config" into the address bar of firefox. push enter
2. Right click anywhere on the page that has loaded, select New, Then Integer
3. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to 0

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DavidNW

Great! thanks a lot for your help and I'll enable your latter suggestion.

Dave.

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Impotence

I would also follow the text for Blocking adverts and StumbleUpon, there 2 extensions that firefox just isnt the same without....

also, you can add rss feeds for your faverite sites on the bookmarks toolbar, i'll add that into the guide soon...

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Matt555

ShowIP

Show the IP address of the current page in the status bar. It also allows querying custom services by IP (right mouse button) and Hostname (left mouse button), like whois, netcraft. Additionally you can copy the IP address to the clipboard. This extension was formerly known as ipv6ident.

X-Ray

One installed the X-Ray command is available by right-clicking as well as in the Tools menu. When applied to a page it can help you see how the document was constructed without having to go back and forth between the sourcecode and the page in your browser. Is that list made of li, dd or p elements? Is that an h3 tag or just some bolded text? X-Ray shows you what's beneath the surface of the page.

I like X-Ray, it's useful for quick-viewing of source and where it's positioned on the page.

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donkey42

this extention is one of the best IMO, Foxmarks, this will keep your bookmarks syncronized (the same) over numerous OS's, you never have to add a bookmark again, but if you do it'll be there forever

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Karanislove

FoxyTunes

Do you listen to Music while surfing the Web?
Now you can control your favorite media player without ever leaving the browser and more...

Supports WinAmp, iTunes, Yahoo Music Engine, Pandora, foobar2000, Windows Media Player, Xbox Media Center, Musicmatch, Quintessential, J. River, jetAudio, XMPlay, MediaMonkey, Media Player Classic, Sonique, wxMusik, Real Player, XMMS, Noatun, Juk, Amarok, Music Player Daemon, Rhythmbox and many other players.

Just click on the orange note and select your player.

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donkey42

no, my sound doesn't work, i figured, sod it, i'll sort it later

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Crusha19

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/938/

This is a virus scanner. If you right click on a download link it will scan it and see if it has a virus. It can only scan up to 10MB, so it may have limited uses. I dont know how reliable it is yet however

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megamaced

In my quest to make Firefox behave the way I want it (ie. more like Opera ), I've discovered two excellent plugins.

NewsFox

NewsFox is an embedded RSS news feeder. It opens inside Firefox as a tab and lets you view / manage all of your live bookmarks. It's similar to Opera's RSS handler and thats a very good thing indeed.

New Tab Button On Tab Bar

This is a really simple extension and it's a wonder why it isn't built into Firefox natively. Every tabbed browser should have a 'new tab' button by default

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Wolfeymole

Firetune is a nice little program that gets Firefox hoofing along even faster.
See what you think.

Impotence

Thankyou Wolfeymole for your contribution, however, unfortunately i feel that i should not include your suggestion in the guide for two reasons.

1. Firetune is windows only, currently the guide applies to Firefox on all operating systems (Linux, Apple OSX, windows etc).
2. Firetune is a (windows) executable and really is not a tweak or a Firefox extension... i cant see any reason why this was not developed as an extension, something doesn't seem quite right.

I would want to know the changes this program makes (and how it does them) and why it has to be an executable to do it and not a Firefox extension before considering adding it (so that the changes it makes can be written up for users of other operating systems, such as myself)

Please don't let this put you off, there are alot of great extensions for firefox and I'm thankful for your help.

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