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The Secrets of Firefox about:config

Posted by kdawson on from the Mozilla-fu dept.

jcatcw writes "While Firefox is very customizable, many of its settings aren't in the Options. Each setting is named and stored as a string, integer, or Boolean in a file called prefs.js and accessed via about:config from the nav bar. Computerworld provides instructions on 20 tweaks for speeding up page loads, making tabs behave, reducing memory drain, and generally making the interface act the way you want it to. Customization also comes through the must-have FF extensions (but be sure to skip these)."

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  1. link to one page article by maj1k · · Score: 5, Informative

    here

  2. Foons! by SimonTheSoundMan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, a lot of these "tweaks" will have negative effects.

    Example: nglayout.initialpaint.delay as 0. This will slow rendering of the page as it causes reflows. Fools.

  3. official mozilla reference by wizardforce · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries

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    Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
  4. Re:While it's nice.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I particularly love the "pipelining" part. Send requests before getting valid acknowledgments from previous requests. ...

    It's rude, annoying and breaks the rules/protocol.


    From RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1) section 8.1.1:

    HTTP requests and responses can be pipelined on a connection. Pipelining allows a client to make multiple requests without waiting for each response, allowing a single TCP connection to be used much more efficiently, with much lower elapsed time.