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How To Use Firefox

Started by sbspalding · 10 months ago

Firefox is the browser for any occasion.
As a platform for developers it has shown that one browser can really be for everyone. Whether music is your thing, SEO is your calling or Photos are your soup de jour, Firefox can be sculpted to be the perfect web browser using its rich library of plug ... Continue reading »

61 comments

  • Steve Cherrier

    1 year ago

    Great compilation of tips! Really appreciate the effort that went into this!
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  • SC2

    1 year ago

    Wow what a great writeup. Half of the stuff was completely new to me.. thanks a bunch :)
    reply
  • BillyWarhol

    1 year ago

    wow*

    yer good dude!!!!!!

    i will definitely try some o yer Tweaks*

    i use the Flickr Multi Group sender by steeev + love it!!

    another all time Fave is FlickrFox by Phil McCluskey http://philmccluskey.com/projects/flickrfox/

    doc18 did the Flickr Buddy Icon in yer Comment Replies http://www.flickr.com/groups/flickrhacks/discus...

    ;))

    there's hundreds more Great ones http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2005/03...

    Thx Man fer all these great Tips*

    Cheers!! Billy ;))

    Peace*
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  • chris

    1 year ago

    http://www.foxsaver.com

    Turn Idle FireFox into ScreenSaver!

    Or use your FireFox as digial photo album!

    It's also very memory efficient.
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  • Steve

    1 year ago

    Thanks for the compliments, any other plugins that you would recommend?
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  • george

    1 year ago

    Adblock Plus or any other adware extensions should be included.

    If it blocks advertising banners, applets, scripts, etc then it indirectly takes you less time to load a page. Of course, the main perk is that you don't have to be bothered about ads ^^ especially those newer ads that make sounds/noises -.-;
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  • Steve

    1 year ago

    Good point mate, Adblock Plus is a lifesaver. It certainly would fit into the "productivity" section.
    reply
  • Chris Shaffer

    1 year ago

    So, if you don't use Flickr or GMail, this can be summarized as "install FasterFox."
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  • Marc Savoy

    1 year ago

    I'm always on the prowl for anything new related to add-ons/re-configuring firefox to the max and
    thought I was on the cutting edge of the latest infomation on the subject. You've remphatically demonstrated there's a lot of information I wasn't aware of with some excellent heretofore unknown tips, tricks and strategies that have made a difference in my browser performance and productivity.

    The manner in which you specified 16834 for the browser.cache.memory.capacity demonstrated to me the sort of consummate professional you seem to be in the perfectionism you strive for with your
    insistence on the precise integer value to submit.

    I've seen I don't know how many configuration parameters all of which gave figures rounded off to 15000. That says a lot about you.
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  • Steve

    1 year ago

    @Chris there are quite a few more plugins that are mentioned, but I do like the Flickr and "Gmail" ones quite a bit.

    @Marc Thanks mate, most of the times when dealing with something like that to get the absolute best performance you want to get as close to the base two value as possible. Thus, there is speed in precision.
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  • Free TV

    1 year ago

    Well there's also the favorite of fasterfox which does the same thing as the network pipe lining.
    reply
  • Saint Seminole

    1 year ago

    Great set of tips -- just one problem. The Gmail "Conversation preview" script didn't work for me. Nothing happened when I right-clicked, other than the message appeared as "read" instead of "unread."
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  • Ryan Neufeld

    1 year ago

    How about Sxipper?

    www.sxipper.com

    An openID based plugin that encrypts the firefox password cache. Check it out!

    http://sxipper.com/
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  • Steve

    1 year ago

    Great suggestions folks!
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  • Ben Dusinberre

    1 year ago

    Re: browser.cache.memory.capacity

    Just want to point out that if you have less then 768MB of RAM, then setting b.c.m.capacity to 16384 will actually make things worse as you are using a number higher then the default.

    Source: MozillaZine
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  • Fable

    1 year ago

    Awesome article with some great advice on speeding up Firefox. Cheers! :)

    Steve
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  • Steve

    1 year ago

    Good point Ben, thanks Fable!
    reply
  • syahid ali

    1 year ago

    you cover it all dude. congrats.
    reply
  • Zia

    1 year ago

    Excellent

    As a big Firefox fan, I am always on the look-out to convert others into this wonderful browser.
    reply
  • Blogulate

    1 year ago

    good :D
    liked the part on greasemonkey scripts
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  • j h blaikie

    1 year ago

    love the tweaks. worked great.....................
    reply
  • El Guapo

    1 year ago

    Enabled pipelining and changed browser cache capacity to 16384. The speed increase is definitely noticable (FF 2.0.0.6). Thanks.
    reply
  • Dan

    1 year ago

    Thanks for all of the tips! But what should someone do with the BCM Capacity with a measly 256MB RAM? When I press CTRL+Alt+Del My firefox shows to be taking up like 80000+ and I change that but it makes no difference? I'm inexperienced and confused there. :p
    reply
  • ChangetoFirefox

    1 year ago

    Like the tips. Enjoyable. I wish more people would make the change and customize Firefox to they way they work. Make the browser work for you. Keep up he good work
    reply
  • jullian

    1 year ago

    Thanks for the tips! You F*#king ROCK!!! \m/
    reply
  • jullian

    1 year ago

    just one question.. how do I add adblock to my addons?
    reply
  • Steve

    1 year ago

    Click on this link.
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  • Tech Thoughts

    1 year ago

    Firefox is great. But it uses too much of my broadband bandwidth by pre-fetching pages. Luckily I found a way to stop firefox from pre-fetching webpages. Check here
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  • MICHAEL J. SCHMITZ

    1 year ago

    THE BAD THING ABOUT FIREFOX, THEY'LL ADVERTISE A DOWNLOAD FOR 3.0. BUT WHEN YOU START TO DOWNLOAD, FIREFOX WILL ONLY SHOW A 2.O DOWNLOAD AND I HAVE 3 OF THEM. I WANT A 3.0 FIREFOX DOWNLOAD SO I CAN CLICK ON ANY LINK AND NOT HAVE TO WAIT 2 MINUTES OR THERE ABOUTS.--ITS CALLED FALSE ADVERTISING FOR ITS CUSTOMERS.
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  • Lynn

    1 year ago

    When I go to the "Greasemonkey" section and click on the two "here" links, it shows up as a url not found.
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  • Steve Spalding

    1 year ago

    Fixed :)
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  • Jen

    1 year ago

    Thanks for the tips.

    But you missed PermaTabs,

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/...

    This is my #1 productivity saver. It makes tabs for designated sites permanent. Handy for webapps like gmail that you need constant access to.
    reply
  • Mozilafirefox

    1 year ago

    Nice tips, but i think I stay with my favourite Opera Browser ;)
    reply
  • gary

    1 year ago

    i have favorites on explorer that did not move over to fire fox when i downloaded it, how do i get them there ?
    reply
  • Sachin

    1 year ago

    Yes. This works Great... However can anybody tell me how to delete a item from about:config?

    Cheers!!!
    Sachin
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  • emo

    1 year ago

    Noscript is a great security add on... a
    must have I believe.

    great article, tnx
    reply
  • soyunloco

    1 year ago

    Great article, i have never use firefox before but i may try it after reading this.
    reply
  • windows firefox

    1 year ago

    RAWR cant wait to configure my firefox too! thank you for the very informative post. i loved the step by step guides. keep on posting!
    reply
  • Starcraft 2

    1 year ago

    thanks for this post
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  • oto kiralama

    1 year ago

    how do i get them there ?
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  • job

    1 year ago

    what a good tips ever!!
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    1 year ago

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  • FORMA

    1 year ago

    Forma imalat
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  • dizzy d

    1 year ago

    ok the font on the top tabs where u can go to tools and stuff is all green how do i change
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  • Anirban

    1 year ago

    Firefox rocks!! Firefox is getting more and more popularity across the globe. Firefox 3 will be out soon and it will be better. I love Firefox and its cool plugins. Thanks.
    reply
  • badot inside

    1 year ago

    thanks for sharing, I need it to increase mozilla speed
    reply
  • Advokat

    1 year ago

    Hi there,

    This is some pretty cool thing you got going here. Gonna check out the remaining site pages to see if there are any updates. ;)

    Cheers! :)
    reply
  • Lovely

    1 year ago

    Thanks for sharing the tip on firefox, it is very useful and I can now speed up my firefox to make browsing more easy to me.

    I have not come across such tip on FF before.
    Thanks
    reply
  • moserw

    1 year ago

    I have tried out and used Firefox plugins and lots of them. I have even written on them on my blog at http://www.nela.in/firefox-add-ons-–-customize-... but this list is awesome. Really makes for interesting reading, but more than that makes Firefox productive like never before. Thanks for sharing. Much appreciated. Going to try them out especially greasemonkey extension.

    moserw
    www.nela.in
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  • James

    1 year ago

    I am using firefox always, and seoquake is the best software for me that make firefox more efficient while using it.
    reply
  • Web-development

    1 year ago

    Firefox is the best brouser in this world. :) I'd like your article, and it is very useful for those, who still using another brousers. )
    reply
  • finalexpenseleads

    10 months ago

    Firefox 3 definitely has earned its place on my desktop. I use a couple of the extensions you mention, and, I can't imagine doing without them.

    The configuration changes you mention are completely new to me. I'm thinking that the memory and pipelineing tweaks will quiet the only knocks I have about the browser.

    Dennis Foreman
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  • mmorpg

    10 months ago

    Great article. A lot of excellent plugins you mentioned. Theres no reason to use IE over Firefox these days.
    reply
  • wilhb81

    10 months ago

    Oh, wow! This is really an awesome post! I didn't even know by enabling the pipeline will make my Firefox become even faster than before!

    This is definitely the best post I even read about the Firefox related matters, thanks for the tips, Steve!
    reply
  • Phao Loo

    8 months ago

    I love FoxyTunes especially when you assign shortkey for it (such as A for stop, S for play, D for pause). It is so helpful when you learning listening and reading text script.
    reply
  • audi kiralama

    6 months ago

    thanks a bunch :)
    reply
  • TM

    4 months ago

    Zotero is my favorite, because I like to do research and it keeps everything organized.
    reply
  • bilgi

    1 month ago

    Thanks for sharing the tip on firefox, it is very useful and I can now speed up my firefox to make browsing more easy to me.
    reply
  • PTK

    6 days ago

    Came to your site looking for "how to use Firefox". I was trying to delete enteries in the address bar. I found this entry helpful and interesting. Though I think this shouldve been called "Firefox tweaks and useful plugins". Book marked your page and hope to find more posts like this. Thanks for posting this :)
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