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Topic: What’s your Favorite FF extension/tweak
Posted By: dpyers
Subject: What’s your Favorite FF extension/tweak
Date Posted: 25 June 2005 at 3:00pm
mine was sent to me by a friend:

Quote If you're on a broadband or better connection, here is something that will really speed Firefox up:

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. 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 a web page at a time.
When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests". This sets the max number of requests it will make at once. I set mint to 25

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0".
This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. Depending on your connection you're pages will load MUCH faster now.


NOTE: Don't go nuts with the maxrequests parameter. If you set it too high some sites with routers set up for that sort of thing may regard it as a DOS attack and automatically ban your ip.


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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 25 June 2005 at 3:02pm
Ohhh I'd have to say:

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=766&application=firefox


Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 25 June 2005 at 3:13pm
lol Thumbs Up

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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 25 June 2005 at 3:56pm
Definetly adblock

but I have mousegestures, spellbound, etc installed as well

and dypers i have been using that tweak for about 6 mounths and it works great.

You can also increase the maxrequests for IE using a registry tweak.


Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 25 June 2005 at 5:21pm
I know about the IE trick. Used to be an option but I guess some people found it to be to confusing - lol.

Any recommendations for a FF ftp extension?


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Posted By: dfrancis
Date Posted: 25 June 2005 at 6:33pm
Thanks man... that was a HUGE improvement.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Originally posted by dpyers dpyers wrote:

mine was sent to me by a friend:

Quote If you're on a broadband or better connection, here is something that will really speed Firefox up:

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. 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 a web page at a time.
When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests". This sets the max number of requests it will make at once. I set mint to 25

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0".
This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. Depending on your connection you're pages will load MUCH faster now.


NOTE: Don't go nuts with the maxrequests parameter. If you set it too high some sites with routers set up for that sort of thing may regard it as a DOS attack and automatically ban your ip.


Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 25 June 2005 at 9:05pm
MOUSE GESTURES

Definitely mouse gestures all the way. I end up trying to use them in IE when I must use IE. But holy moly - they make FF SOOOO much easier and faster to use.




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Posted By: xeerex
Date Posted: 25 June 2005 at 9:11pm
My favs are:

BBCode Extension
http://jedbrown.net/1.0/mozilla/extensions/#BBCode - http://jedbrown.net/1.0/mozilla/extensions/#BBCode

Web Developer *Must have
http://chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper - http://chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper

Download Manager Tweak
http://dmextension.mozdev.org - http://dmextension.mozdev.org

GoogleBar
http://googlebar.mozdev.org - http://googlebar.mozdev.org

ForecastFox
http://forecastfox.mozdev.org/installation.html - http://forecastfox.mozdev.org/installation.html

FireFTP
http://fireftp.mozdev.org/index.html - http://fireftp.mozdev.org/index.html

Sage (RSS and Atom aggregator)
http://sage.mozdev.org - http://sage.mozdev.org





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Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 26 June 2005 at 8:27am
id have to say:
  • ColorZilla - makes it alot easier building a site
  • Disable Targets for downloads - stops you havin millions of tabs when you download


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