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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. 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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