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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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  2. Awesome stuff by mnoel2 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    (Haven't R'ed TFA)

    I'm a student working in my University's Computing Services department (only Unix geek there -- and almost the only Comp Sci major, too), where we're looking at deploying Linux workstations and whatnot. My boss recently asked me to replace the Win2k image on the Union's email kiosks.

    I was using KDE (wanted Blackbox, but that's a long story), so I figured I'd use Konqueror's kiosk mode lockdown (see here). But after googling around and finding this one for Firefox, I was sold. XUL makes it so easy to modify the interface and ban commands (like bookmarking or opening local files). And my boss was even impressed. (( Dorky '50s ad grin )) Thanks, Mozilla!

    It'll never get me laid though...

  3. 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.