The Secrets of Firefox about:config 263
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)."
link to one page article (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I just want (Score:5, Informative)
browser.xul.error_pages.enabled
set it to "true"
Foons! (Score:5, Informative)
Example: nglayout.initialpaint.delay as 0. This will slow rendering of the page as it causes reflows. Fools.
official mozilla reference (Score:5, Informative)
a little OT kinda, but the video downloader ext... (Score:3, Informative)
In fact, it seems to me that when it doesn't work, "service not available" only happens when I don't watch it first, not in my cache.
Re:While it's nice.. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Camino? (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.firefoxtutor.com/39/loc-bar-search/ [firefoxtutor.com]
And really, they should have called Iceweasel IreOx, at least until mozilla.org asked them to stop.
Re:While it's nice.. (Score:5, Informative)
From RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1) [ietf.org] section 8.1.1:
Thunderbird also... (Score:4, Informative)
userChrome.css (Score:2, Informative)
display: none !important;
}
Re:While it's nice.. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:While it's nice.. (Score:5, Informative)
RFC 2920 [rfc-editor.org] is the SMTP extension for pipelining. Pipelining is a perfectly valid strategy to reduce the time it takes to send mail by reducing the number of round-trips.
What's rude is violating the RFC that says that certain round-trips are required and the spammers tend to violate those rules (such as asking if a message body can be sent before actually sending it, and waiting for the server's introduction message before the client introduces itself). Pipelining itself is actually quite good.
I won't comment on HTTP pipelining because someone else did already.
Re:The Art of Performance Tuning -- a Fable (Score:4, Informative)
Hee.
Re:Foons! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:The Art of Performance Tuning -- a Fable (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Foons! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:I just want (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Still can't turn off favicons in the bookmark m (Score:1, Informative)
change from true to false on the two following items:
browser.chrome.favicons
browser.chrome.site_icons
Re:Still can't turn off favicons in the bookmark m (Score:5, Informative)
In Firefox 2.0.3, I opened up the DOM inspector, chose the main window, and started drilling down in to the element tree: I found the icons which you loathe.
Open up userChrome.css (in your profile: [profile dir]/chrome/).
In it, the following CSS rule should work to hide the icons:(This selector appears in chrome://browser/skin/browser.css, if you know where that is).
Re:While it's nice.. (Score:5, Informative)
Because some servers violate the protocol by responding incorrectly to pipelined requests. At least, that was the reason 2 years ago.
Re:Foons! (Score:3, Informative)
When Firefox is actively loading a page, it periodically reformats or "reflows" the page as it loads, based on what data has been received. Create a content.notify.interval integer preference to control the minimum number of microseconds (millionths of a second) that elapse between reflows. If it's not explicitly set, it defaults to 120000 (.12 of a second).
Too many reflows may make the browser feel sluggish, so you can increase the interval between reflows by raising this to 500000 (500,000, or 1/2 second) or even to 1000000 (1 million, or 1 second). If you set this value, be sure to also create a Boolean value called content.notify.ontimer and set it to true.
Re:Tee Hee (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Camino? (Score:4, Informative)
Opera Version (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Camino? (Score:3, Informative)
The list of about:config entries [mozillazine.org] has lots of info on what the various options do, and some of the detail pages specify whether the pref has an effect in Camino. I can't vouch for the thoroughness of the "has an effect in" sections however, and AFAIK there's no list dealing just with Camino-compatible prefs.
Re:Opera Version (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Documentation (Score:4, Informative)
Yes.
MozillaZine Knowledge Base Article on about:config entries [mozillazine.org]
It is the first page Google finds when you search for "about:config". I'll let you decide whether that's easy to find.
If there wasn't, you'd be able to put it in the Knowledge Base yourself.