Firefox tips!

Recently i switched to firefox completely, cause IE was being a bitch. So to share some cool stuff in firefox

First off, download firefox for windows

or download firefox for mac

or download firefox for linux

 

Themes

I'll start with theme for firefox especially if you were IE7 user and want to switch.

There are 2 themes you would like to try

Very similar to IE7

Slightly similar to IE7

 

Keyword feature

The other thing about Firefox is the keyword feature which enables you to quickly search from a search engine with just the keyword.

Lets do a Google.com example

To do this go to Google.com. Put your mouse over the text box for the search. Right click and click add keyword for this search.. Enter Google for the name and maybe enter g as the keyword. Done!

now you can go to the address bar and type "g candy bar" and it will search Google for candy bar.

 

You can speed up firefox (theoretically)

To do this type "about:config" in the address bar. A list of settings will appear. in the search bar type "pipe" . There will be 3 settings there

• Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
• Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
• Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.

you can also 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.

 

Limit RAM usage

If Firefox takes up too much memory on your computer, you can limit the amount of RAM it is allowed to us. Again, go to about:config, filter “browser.cache” and select “browser.cache.disk.capacity”. It’s set to 50000, but you can lower it, depending on how much memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between 512MB and 1GB ram.

 

Reduce RAM usage further for when Firefox is minimized. This setting will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, taking up much less memory. And there is no noticeable difference in speed when you restore Firefox, so it’s definitely worth a go. Again, go to about:config, right-click anywhere and select New-> Boolean. Name it “config.trim_on_minimize” and set it to TRUE. You have to restart Firefox for these settings to take effect.