The Secrets of Firefox about:config

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)."

Comments

Re:While it's nice..

[Runefox]

What? It's not the Microsoft Bob support forum? I wanted to get help on running it on my new Mac, but it won't run on this Linux thing you all keep suggesting. Can anyone help me? What am I doing wrong?

Re:The Art of Performance Tuning -- a Fable

[syousef]

You're a dangerous twit. Things other than your precious parameter may have affected performance, and the differences your users were seeing may have been due to other factors. Instead you focused their attention on a non-variable and dismissed any actual differences they saw. This was an opportunity to work out what else they were doing differently which may have lead to other performance insights....but I guess that would have cut into your beer time. YOU were the problem, just as much as any foolish user, but I don't suppose you'll see that because you're actually fool enough to be bragging about this years later.