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Resources ∞

• https://web.archive.org/web/20210410165156/http://kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Tweaking_preferences
• Tweakguides

• http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/firefox.htm

Magnet Support ∞

about:config

Right-click -> New > Boolean -> Name: network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet -> Value -> false

(then when a magnet:// link is clicked, it’ll prompt to select an application to launch it with)

Tweaks ∞

• Turn off domain guessing (which adds www. and .com) for link URLs

  • browser.fixup.alternate.enabled;false

• Display the alt-text instead of the “image-not-found” image

  • true will force ALT text for missing images to be layed out inline
  • browser.display.force_inline_alttext;true

Keywords

These allow you to type things in the location bar, like wp some phrase and search Wikipedia for ‘some phrase’. To implement this:

• Create a bookmark.
• Keyword: wp

• Location: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=go

Old notes ∞

• mousewheel.transaction.ignoremovedelay mousewheel.transaction.timeout scrolling transaction – I could remove most of the annoyance of scrolling the whole page when scrolling just one element.

  • mousewheel.transaction.timeout

Some of these notes could be as old or older than 1.5. Technically I’ve grandfathered everything here into the latest Firefox.

• Stop those damned images when dragging tabs. FINALLY it also fixes the annoying crap covering your mouse when you drag-and-drop bookmarks.

  • Serious speed improvement.
  • nglayout.enable_drag_images;false

• Use XBL form controls

  • Don’t use website-based form theming, use browser/OS-based theming. Performance increase.
  • nglayout.debug.enable_xbl_forms;true

• Safe Browsing – I don’t need this feature, and I don’t want to waste CPU cycles, memory and disk space on a lookup file or interact with a third-party website to report my surfing activities.

  • browser.safebrowsing.enabled;false

• Present the normal Ok and Cancel buttons on the preference screen.

  • browser.preferences.instantApply;false

• Don’t animate when switching preference panels. Important on Mac.

  • browser.preferences.animateFadeIn;false

• Delete temporary files on exit. Umm. Yes, actually make the temporary files TEMPORARY.

  • browser.helperApps.deleteTempFileOnExit;true

• Resized images

  • browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing;false

• Paste with the middle mouse click. This would be important on non-Linux.

  • middlemouse.paste;true

• Stop trying to paste the clipboard as a URL

  • middlemouse.contentLoadURL;false

• Disable the “Download Complete” popup that appears at the bottom-right when all downloads are complete. It’s slow to animate, overrides important stuff and is a complete pain in the ass when the system is under heavy load. It’s also completely pointless when I queue many downloads and I have to come back to over 9,000 save dialogs.

  • browser.download.manager.showAlertOnComplete;false

• network.cookie.cookieBehavior Untrustworthy default. Change it so that only cookies from the originating server are allowed

  • network.cookie.cookieBehavior;1

• ~ Stop that damned delay when interacting with popups like save dialogs.

  • security.dialog_enable_delay;0

• Don’t pre-fetch content, such as when googling which pre-fetches the search results. Damn that’s stupid and a security issue.

  • network.prefetch-next;false

• Show tooltips for toolbar buttons, bookmarks, web content , and other items.

  • browser.chrome.toolbar_tips;false

• Spell checking in all fields including one-line fields.

  • layout.spellcheckDefault;2

• alt-home homepage

  • browser.startup.homepage;http://google.com
  • [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.startup.page] browser.startup.page;1

• typing in the location bar searches.

  • keyword.URL;http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=0&q=
  • keyword.URL;https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbwssl.cgi?Gw=
  • Now right-click beside the top location bar > customize. Drag the top “search” area into the middle area and drop it.

• If there’s just one tab, don’t hide it. Press F11 if you particularly need full-screen.

  • browser.tabs.autoHide;false

Speeding up Firefox ∞

• network.http.pipelining;true
• network.http.pipelining.ssl;true
• network.http.pipelining.maxrequests;15

• network.http.proxy.pipelining;false

  • I turn this one off because Proxies are notoriously slow and grumpy.
• network.http.max-connections;32
• network.http.max-connections-per-server;16
• network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server;8
• network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy;16

• nglayout.initialpaint.delay;0

  • change the timeout values as well.. since you’re overloading servers it’ll take a while. =/ (TODO: How?)
  • Also sync content.notify.interval for best performance?