Firefox tweaks [Contd]

RAM tweak : Think your Firefox is eating up lot of your computers RAM?? wanna shift the load to hard drive?? Here is the tweak for you.All you have to do is

Type about:config in your adress bar.Right click on the new page and select New -> Boolean.In the pop-up window, type in “config.trim_on_minimize” without quotes and hit enter.In the next pop-up window, select True and hit enter.Restart your browser

Cache tweak: Firefox caches the previous pages inorder to make them load faster when you visit again which consumes a lot of memory.Steps for the tweak are

Type about:config in your adress bar and go to browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers” and instead of the -1 setting, change it to 0 and hit Enter.

Memory tweak: Firefox auto adjust the cache size to fit irrespective of many pages you have open. While this is useful, if you tend to only have a few pages open at a time, you can manually reduce the setting to a specified amount at the cost of reducing performance when Firefox runs out of cache.

Type about:config in your adress bar and hit enter.Right click on the new page and select New -> Integer.In the pop-up window, type in “browser.cache.memory.capacity”. In the following pop-up window, specify how many Kb of ram you want to dedicate to the cache.Go for hit and trail for getting optimum usage.Restart your browser

Download Manager tweak : Dont want to see the popup window of downloads in your Firefox?? your answer is here

Type about:config in your adress bar and go to the page. You can modify the following: For preventing the alert message of download form popping for a long time,modify a. browser.download.manager.showAlertInterval which is by fault set to 2 sec For setting the minimum size of the files for which you want to see the download progress to prevent the annoying window from opening for even small files,browser.download.manager.openDelay set its value. For getting your download mamanger closed as soon as the download is over,set the value of browser.download.manager.closeWhenDoneto true which is by default set to false. For preenting the download manager from flashing in your taskbar for certain time,modify browser.download.manager.flashCount the value to 0. Restart your Firefox after all tweaks.

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Have you ever lost your web page by clicking by fault on the close button of individual tab????Here is something which can help you revert to Firefox 1.5 like menu with a close button on the right hand side of the browser after the tabs.Follow the steps for it.

Type about:config in your adress bar and go to browser.tabs.closeButtons
You will find its value to be set on 1 .Modify it to 2 not show close button of tabs at all and 3 to show a close button at the end of tab button strip

You don't want your bandwidth and CPU cycles to be wasted by Firefox downloading the links which it thinks you might use them like the top pages on Google search???? Follow the following steps for it

Type about:config in your adress bar and go to network.prefetch-next
Change the value to false and you are done

You thing Firefox is eating up the memory of your computer???Lots of times I find Firefox using almost 70000k of RAM which means a lot of resources being eaten up by a single process.Here is the tweak for you.

Type about:config in your adress bar and go to browser.cache.memory.capacity
set its value as per your PC memory i.e For 512Mb and 1Gb RAM,start with 15000. For RAM sizes between 128MB and 512M, try 5000.

I hope these tweaks help you to some extent
Fore more knowledge on Firefox,check out Total Guide to Firefox

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Restoring even when the Firefox is closed normally

For a normal person :

Go to Tools --> options --> main --> select "Show my windows and tabs from last time" from the drop down menu of When Firefox starts.

Semi technical way :

Type about:config in your address bar and search for browser.startup.page -- right click on it ,go to modify and set the value to 2 If you want to restore it.


Browser.startup.page values and their functions :

0

Start with a blank page (about:blank)

1

Start with the webpage defined as home page. (Default)

2

Load the last visited page.

Resume the previous browser session (Firefox only, implemented after Firefox 2 beta 1)

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Tutorial to speed up you Firefox

Firefox has got good tweaking for increasing the speed of your internet especially on broadband.Follow the rules which I'm mentioning below and it will increase the speed of your internet

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" to some number like 30.

This means it will make 30 requests at once.

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 recieves.
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Firefox Keyboard shortcuts

Fed up surfing on the net with one hand on the mouse and the another on keyboard????Do you want to surf like a geek???If it's so you need to use keyboard shortcuts.All you have to do is just to hold down your ctrl or control key on the keyboard and the type the letters given below to perform the required actions [ E.g T means ctrl +T ].

T	Opens a new tab and takes the focus to the new tab
O	Open Local File. This is one of the biggest changes from IE where both Ctrl-O and Ctrl-L opened a dialogue box for a URL.
L	Changes focus to the Address bar
Tab	Scrolls through the tabs from current window towards the right. Loops back to the first tab when rightmost tab is reached
1..0	The numbers 1 to 0 takes the focus to Tab 1 to 10
N	Opens a new window like IE
W	a tab or if there are no tabs, close the window
B	Open bookmark sidepanel
D	Bookmark current page
H	Brings up the history dialogue box on the right. Useful if you closed a page accidentally and forgot the URL. Or to make sure your kids are not looking at pr0n
U	Show page source
Y	Open downloads window
K	Focus goes to search bar

Some of the more common shortcuts just for your reference

R	Refresh current page
F	Find in page
G	Find Again (used in conjunction with Ctrl F)
J	Page Info (same as properties in IE)
-	Decrease font size
+	Increase font size
S	Save current page to disk
P	Print current page
A	Select All

If you have any much useful shortcuts,dont forget to post them
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