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06-15-2010, 08:17 PM | #1 |
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Firefox Download HERE and info to help you
Firefox Download for those with new PC or Reinstall
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/ Firefox Download Desktop https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/#desktop Water Fox 64 bit https://www.waterfoxproject.org/ Mobile here https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/fx/#mobile Google privacy info and changes. http://www.informationweek.com/secur...-you/240162564
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06-17-2010, 04:55 PM | #2 |
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Everybody’s favorite open-source browser, Firefox, is great right out of the box. And by adding some of the awesome extensions available out there, the browser just gets better and better.
But look under the hood, and there are a bunch of hidden (and some not-so-secret) tips and tricks available that will crank Firefox up and pimp your browser. Make it faster, cooler, more efficient. Get to be a Jedi master with the following cool Firefox tricks. 1) More screen space. Make your icons small. Go to View – Toolbars – Customize and check the “Use small icons” box. 2) Smart keywords. If there’s a search you use a lot (let’s say IMDB.com’s people search), this is an awesome tool that not many people use. Right-click on the search box, select “Add a Keyword for this search”, give the keyword a name and an easy-to-type and easy-to-remember shortcut name (let’s say “actor”) and save it. Now, when you want to do an actor search, go to Firefox’s address bar, type “actor” and the name of the actor and press return. You can do this with any search box. 3) Keyboard shortcuts. This is where you become a real Jedi. It just takes a little while to learn these, but once you do, your browsing will be super fast. Here are some of the most common (and my personal favs):
4) Auto-complete. This is another keyboard shortcut, but it’s not commonly known and very useful. Go to the address bar (Control-L) and type the name of the site without the “www” or the “.com”. Let’s say “google”. Then press Control-Enter, and it will automatically fill in the “www” and the “.com” and take you there – like magic! For .net addresses, press Shift-Enter, and for .org addresses, press Control-Shift-Enter. 5) Tab navigation. Instead of using the mouse to select different tabs that you have open, use the keyboard. Here are the shortcuts:
7) Delete items from address bar history. Firefox’s ability to automatically show previous URLs you’ve visited, as you type, in the address bar’s drop-down history menu is very cool. But sometimes you just don’t want those URLs to show up (I won’t ask why). Go to the address bar (Ctrl-L), start typing an address, and the drop-down menu will appear with the URLs of pages you’ve visited with those letters in them. Use the down-arrow to go down to an address you want to delete, and press the Delete key to make it disappear. 8) User chrome. If you really want to trick out your Firefox, you’ll want to create a User Chrome.css file and customize your browser. It’s a bit complicated to get into here, but check out this tutorial.9) Create a user.js file. Another way to customize Firefox, creating a user.js file can really speed up your browsing. You’ll need to create a named user.js in your profile folder (see this to find out where the profile folder is) and see this example user.js file that you can modify. Created by techlifeweb.com, this example explains some of the things you can do in its comments. 10) about:config. The true power user’s tool, about.config isn’t something to mess with if you don’t know what a setting does. You can get to the main configuration screen by putting about:config in the browser’s address bar. See Mozillazine’s about:config tips and screenshots. 11) Add a keyword for a bookmark. Go to your bookmarks much faster by giving them keywords. Right-click the bookmark and then select Properties. Put a short keyword in the keyword field, save it, and now you can type that keyword in the address bar and it will go to that bookmark. 12) Speed up Firefox. If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipe lining to speed up your page loads. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by default, it’s optimized for dial up connections). Here’s how:
14) Reduce RAM usage further for when Firefox is minimized. This setting will move Firefox to your hard when you minimize it, taking up much less memory. And there is no noticeable difference in speed when you restore Firefox, so it’s definitely worth a go. Again, go to about:config, right-click anywhere and select New-> Boolean. Name it “config.trim_on_minimize” and set it to TRUE. You have to restart Firefox for these settings to take effect. 15) Move or remove the close tab button. Do you accidentally click on the close button of Firefox’s tabs? You can move them or remove them, again through about:config. Edit the preference for “browser.tabs.close Buttons”. Here are the meanings of each value:
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07-05-2010, 10:20 AM | #3 |
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Create your own persona
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07-10-2010, 09:34 AM | #4 |
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07-10-2010, 09:36 AM | #5 |
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How to make Firefox Faster
This Tutorial tell you how to speed your FireFox Browser. --Use at your own risk-- 1. Type about:config in the address bar and then press Enter. 2. In the filter search bar type network.http.pipelining. Be sure the value field is set true,if not double-click to set true. 3. Go back to the filter search bar and type network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. Double-click this option and set its value to 8 4. In the filter search bar and type network.http.proxy.pipelining. Once opened double-click on it and set it to true. 5. 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 in the filter search bar and set this option to true by double clicking on it. 6. CONTENT INTERRUPT PARSING This preference controls if the application will interrupt parsing a page to respond to UI events. It does not exist by default. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-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 C. 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. 8. 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. 9. 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. 10. 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. 11. CONTENT SWITCH THRESHOLD You can interact with a loading page when content.interrupt.parsing is set to true. When a page is loading, the application has two modes: a high frequency interrupt mode and a low frequency interrupt mode. The first one interrupts the parser more frequently to allow for greater UI responsiveness during page load. The low frequency interrupt mode interrupts the parser less frequently to allow for quicker page load. The application enters high frequency interrupt mode when you move the mouse or type on the keyboard and switch back to low frequency mode when you had no activity for a certain amount of time. This preference controls that amount of time. 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.switch.threshold 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 12. NGLAYOUT INITIALPAINT DELAY Mozilla applications render web pages incrementally, they display what’s been received of a page before the entire page has been downloaded. Since the start of a web page normally doesn’t have much useful information to display, Mozilla applications will wait a short interval before first rendering a page. This preference controls that interval. 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 nglayout.initialpaint.delay in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK. B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 0 and click OK.
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01-08-2013, 09:15 AM | #6 |
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Firefox 18 Release Notes
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo.../releasenotes/ Firefox 18.1 Release Notes https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo.../releasenotes/
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