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Firefox Undocumented Settings Compilation

Posted by timothy on from the firefox-tucks-me-in-to-sleep dept.

aceh0 writes "TweakFactor has a Firefox Tweak Guide up that that summarizes some undocumented settings in Firefox and recommended configurations (depending on the computer type and connection speed) for those that don't want to dig through a 17-page thread"

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  1. Thunderbird? by choi · · Score: 5, Informative

    > Originally called Thunderbird, Firefox ran into
    > some name problems and was renamed Firebird.
    > Running into further name problems, Firebird was
    > renamed to Firefox.

    Someone didn't do his homework right. Actually, Thunderbird is mozilla.org's standalone mailer.

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    1. Re:Thunderbird? by 1001011010110101 · · Score: 4, Informative

      I think it was Phoenix->Firebird->Firefox

    2. Re:Thunderbird? by pmsyyz · · Score: 2, Informative

      You misunderstand. "mozilla/browser" does not refer to the Mozilla browser component, it is what Firefox was called before it was called Phoenix.

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  2. Poor advice by joebp · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is a poorly written article.

    The changes to, in particular:

    user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);
    user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server ", 16);

    Is extremely rude and bad practice.

    1. Re:Poor advice by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 4, Informative
      Yes, those values are too high.

      A side note: The writer mentions that IE had this feature and that Mozilla was slower for that reason. That is not correct. Very old versions of Netscape had this feature.

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  3. Re:Control - U? by Nasarius · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ctrl+U opens the source here on Firefox/KDE/Linux. Maybe you're thinking of Ctrl+K? I don't think that works on Windows.

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  4. Re:Control - U? by Nasarius · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ah, I see. Ctrl+U does clear out the URL input if that's focused. Nevermind me then.

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  5. Re:Control - U? by consolidatedbord · · Score: 2, Informative

    Control -U opens the source if you don't have the cursor in the address bar, if it is in the address bar then it will clear out the line.

    I don't think that this is a firefox-specific feature, as I have this available in an xterm, at the console, etc.

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  6. Explanations would be nice by Gogo+Dodo · · Score: 3, Informative

    How about explanations of what and why you would want to tweak these things? It's all nice to say "Do this," but I want to know what and why these changes are good for.

    I get some of them like the pipelining and max connections (though the settings are not nice), but what do some of the less obvious ones do?

    user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
    user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 3000000);

    I think that's a problem with all of these "tweak your browser" things I've read. Nobody ever says why you should tweak something, just that you should.

  7. Re:what I want to know is... by Gogo+Dodo · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm a bit confused with your post. First you say that the location bar uses search.netscape.com and then you say it uses Google. It's all one configuration, I think.

    The default on my 0.9.2 copy is to do a Google I'm Feeling Lucky search. I changed it by going to about:config, changing keyword.URL and removing the I'm Feeling Lucky button parameter. So the URL looks like:

    http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&s ou rceid=firefox&q=

  8. Re:WARNING. Tweak Guide Author Doesn't Have Clue by _pruegel_ · · Score: 2, Informative

    65536kB is exactly 64MB not 65 or "roughly 65"...