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A post from another one of my blogs

Here are some of my favourite FF tweaks:-

Taken from Better-than-life

1) look for the profile folder
On Windows XP/2000, the path is usually
>C:Documents and Settings[User Name]Application
>DataMozillaFirefoxProfilesdefault.xxx

where xxx is a random string of 3 characters.

On Windows 95/98/Me, the path is usually
>C:WINDOWSApplication
>DataMozillaFirefoxProfilesdefault.xxx

On Linux, the path is usually
~/.mozilla/firefox/default.xxx/.

On MacOS X, the path is usually ~/Library/Application
Support/Firefox/Profiles/default.xxx/.

2) create user.js file and paste this code :

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);

3) reload firefox

4) profit!

And the next one is taken from Techsupport-alert that makes FF load faster:

You can slash Firefox’s slow load time by compressing the DLLs and executables. There are many choices for compression but I suggest you use UPX which is free, efficient and time proven.

1. Download UPX from http://upx.sourceforge.net/#download

2. Unzip upx.exe into your Firefox installation folder which is normally C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox.

3. Make sure Firefox is not running then shell to a command prompt in the Firefox installation directory.

4. Type in the following command in a single line and hit return:

for %v in (*.exe *.dll components\*.dll plugins\*.dll) do upx “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\%v”

5. If on some later occasion you want to unpack the files, just type in the command above but add the decompression switch “-d” after “do upx.”

Both of these tweaks are extremely helpful and works like a charm. You can also download and install the tweaking extension fasterfox

That’s all, hope you guys enjoy this

Tags: firefox, developement, speed, tweaks, firefoxtweaks