Firefox Tuning

Banditz71 · Post by **Banditz71** » April 26th, 2004, 7:43 pm

Quick question......Is there a problem with going to About:Config in the address bar and making changes that way? Thanks!

SimmonsJ2K · Post by **SimmonsJ2K** » April 26th, 2004, 8:21 pm

Banditz71 · Post by **Banditz71** » April 27th, 2004, 10:28 am

Is there someway to print the entire Config listing? I tried the "simple" way but only got 1 page...........also, if I do Print Preview while on About:Config, Firefox crashes. Anyone else ever see that happen? Thanks!

Post by **BenBasson** » April 27th, 2004, 12:49 pm

Why would you want to print it? Most of the settings are on their default values. You could print prefs.js if you can find it (it's in your profile directory)... or just go here:
http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html

Banditz71 · Post by **Banditz71** » April 27th, 2004, 1:38 pm

Well, I was just wanting a print out so I could see what I had and what I didn't and what settings I had when comparing to others. It would just make it a little easier to look at on a piece of paper as opposed to flipping back and forth in the browser............I have already printed the prefs.js file but of course, it doesn't show the extensive list as does about:config . Thanks for the link......I'm glad to find that.

Post by **BenBasson** » April 27th, 2004, 1:48 pm

The things in about:config are the defaults... anything you change will be stored in prefs.js and user.js if it was a manual change. If you print off those files, you don't need to compare about:config data, because you have all the changes... everything else will be the default value.

Banditz71 · Post by **Banditz71** » April 27th, 2004, 1:54 pm

OK, I see what you're saying. Thanks!

sasquatch · Post by **sasquatch** » April 27th, 2004, 2:00 pm

Copy and paste into MS Word.

I don't know why people have to question the question, rather than just answer.

Post by **BenBasson** » April 27th, 2004, 2:17 pm

I don't know why people have to question the question, rather than just answer.

Sometimes it's nice to know why people want to do things, as you can offer a better solution. I did also semi-answer the question, and last time I checked, I was unable to copy more than one preference from about:config at a time and paste it into another app, unless I'm missing something.

alex-the-cat · Post by **alex-the-cat** » April 27th, 2004, 2:23 pm

People come here to seek answers, not questions.

sasquatch · Post by **sasquatch** » April 27th, 2004, 2:53 pm

Cusser wrote:
I don't know why people have to question the question, rather than just answer.

Sometimes it's nice to know why people want to do things, as you can offer a better solution. I did also semi-answer the question, and last time I checked, I was unable to copy more than one preference from about:config at a time and paste it into another app, unless I'm missing something.

Then I guess screen shots will have to do. Paste THEM into MS Word. Why fight it? Look for answers, man.

Post by **BenBasson** » April 27th, 2004, 3:04 pm

What's wrong with you people? I asked to get a better idea of what this person wanted to do, you don't have to directly answer the original question just for the sake of it.

Did you even read why he wanted to print out the settings? Printing prefs.js and/or user.js will provide a much simpler comparison than tens of screenshots of default settings with only a few changes. Sure, there are plenty of ways to achieve exactly what this person asked, but are they good methods of achieving what he wanted? No. If you have any problems with how I answer questions, PM them to me instead of pointlessly spamming this otherwise useful thread.

alex-the-cat · Post by **alex-the-cat** » April 28th, 2004, 12:26 pm

a little bump here

[ Apocalipsis ] · Post by **[ Apocalipsis ]** » April 28th, 2004, 3:51 pm

ok well....i'm new on this stuff...

i copy & pasted this codes on my user.js

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user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);
user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", true);
user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);
user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 3000000);
user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 8191);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 32);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 8);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 4);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 750);
user_pref("plugin.expose_full_path", true);
user_pref("signed.applets.codebase_principal_support", true);

i'm running
Windows XP Pro EN-US , 256 Ram, 64 KB modem internet conection, Pentium III with about 2 gb of free hard drive spcae....

those codes work well for me?...

cause somtimes those codes work just for people with HUGE ram or internet conection...

Tanx

Melgund · Post by **Melgund** » April 29th, 2004, 8:35 am

This may have been covered somewhere else in this thread but adding the following line to my user.js cut more my test score on the
Benchmark.js test
from 51.7 to 28.5!!

user_pref("dom.disable_window_status_change", true);

Almost all of the improvement came from the first of the five tests.

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