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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)."
Yep, I just recently had to trash my profile folder after following various 'Firefox about:config tips' articles.
Whatever the suggestions are, if they are really that useful they should be on by default.
[ ] Suck
[ ] Not Suck
Call me crazy but I and most commercial software companies know which button to check by default. You would think open source developers would be able to catch on.
Yea no kidding. I read through the networking options carefully. I particularly love the "pipelining" part. Send requests before getting valid acknowledgments from previous requests.
This is a tactic spammers use with mail servers. It's rude, annoying and breaks the rules/protocol. Smart admins will typically put a filter on so it ignores requests that come in too fast (or in the case with sendmail, pre-greeting traffic, smtp pipelining).
I would tend to think FireFox developers know sane defaults better than the standard user. It should come with a disclaimer: use at your own risk.
FLR
That's because the communist open-sores developers are nothing more than a bunch of stupid fucktards who should go collectively earn themselves a Darwin award by finding a razor, running a hot bath, and slitting their fucking wrists. Oh wait then there would be almost nobody on shitdot anymore as all shitdot sheeple, including fucktard taco and brokeback neil, would have earned themselves a Darwin Award.
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?
Screw the rules, I have green hair!
Heh, it's because of fanboys like you (among other things) that I don't use Firefox.
Maybe not
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.
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