Firefox-tweaks
Stop storing function in browser
Firefox 3 automatically saves your session every 10 secs so that whenever it crashes, it can restore all your tabs. While this is a useful feature, some of you might find it irritating. To disable this function, toggle the value of browser.sessionstore.enabled to False
Type about:config in address bar
browser.sessionstore.enabled ..
Display close button on active tab
Some people love to see the Close (the red X) button on every tabs, but some hate it.
Whatever is it, you can configure it to your preferences via browser.tabs.closeButtons setting.
1) Type about:config on address bar
2) search for browser.tabs.closeButtons
3) Change the value as given below. The default value is 1 ..
Change browser setting
Type about:config in address bar to tweak browser setting.
browser.urlbar.autoFill = True
Enable auto-complete for URLs when typing into the location bar.
browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo = 15
Increase the number of closed tabs that firefox has stored in its cache to 15.
browser.tabs.tabMinWidth = 75
Show more tabs in a single window by narrowing the minimum width of ..
Locate the profile folder
The profile folder is where all of your unique user settings and addons for Firefox are stored.
Here is where you can find your Firefox Profile Folder in windows vista operating system.
Path to profile folder:
C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\
Make sure that you have enabled hidden files and folders option. To enable "Show hidden files and ..
Open firefox in online mode
In some Linux machines the firefox always starts in the offline mode and it will be annoying for the frequent online users. Where ever you start your firefox browser it will go for work offline mode, follow the below steps to revert it to online mode.
- Type about:config on ..
IE test for developers
IE Browser compatibility Test in Firefox
Firefox is one of the most preferred browser among developers and bloggers. Often we might need to check the design of blog or website in Internet explorer, especially while designing new theme for website. Here is a simple way to get IE in Firefox, without ..
Change http redirection limit
How to change redirection limit in firefox
Some time we can't access webpage due to having more no.of redirection. By default firefox's http redirection limit is 20. So we can't access webpage which has more than 20 redirection.
network.http.redirection-limit default integer 20
To change default redirection ..
Firefox Hacks
Mozilla Security Advisory July 7, 2004
Windows shell:
Scheme exposed in Mozilla Products: Mozilla (Suite) Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Thunderbird Fixed in: Mozilla (Suite) 1.7.1 Mozilla Firefox 0.9.2 Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2
Description:
Windows versions of Mozilla products pass URIs using the shell: scheme to the OS for handling. The effects depend on the version of ..
Firefox slow at start
How to speedup firefox?
You might be feed up with your slow start of your firefox browser. Here's some steps to speed up 'Firefox':
1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return.
# about:config
2. Scroll down and look for the following entries
network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to ..