Re: Tweakin for Fun/Speed Update in Mozilla Software

Re: Tweakin for Fun/Speed Update in Mozilla Software http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20127004 en Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:13:24 EDT Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:13:24 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20778056 Grail Knight : You are welcome.

Enjoy!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20778056 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:49:09 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20777614 Graystoke : Thank you Grail Knight. Sorry for taking so long to get around to thanking you. It was our 25th wedding anniversary, and my wife said we are going out of town for a week, and no computers. And I always agree (well almost always) with "She Who Must Be Obeyed". :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20777614 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:26:33 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20772949 Grail Knight : Ya I see that now.

Long day here. Thanks..]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20772949 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:08:06 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20772838 jmorlan :

said by Grail Knight

:

Tried what? All of the tweaks or just a few?

I'm pretty sure DataDoc

was talking about:

gfx.color_management.enabled = true (default is false)
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Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning. (George Carlin)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20772838 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:44:26 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20772803 Grail Knight : Tried what? All of the tweaks or just a few?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20772803 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:36:47 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20769458 DataDoc : I tried gfx.color_management.enabled = true and for my 7 yr old PC it was too much of a performance hit.

(Edited for clarity.)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20769458 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:33:05 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20766022 Grail Knight :

quote:
there is nothing listed under "config.trim", or "content." anything. Everything else is there. Is this normal?

That is normal. These items will be added once you have the user.js in your Profile Folder and restart Fx.

quote:
Do I have to set up a new user.js file and enter them there?

If you have the user.js from Fx v2 series you can copy it to the Fx v3 Profile and edit it changing any entries to Fx v3 tweak values.

It is faster IMO to just to create a new user.js file and copy the tweaks into it and place it into the Fx v3 folder.
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"Facts beat FUD any day of the week and twice on Sundays".]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20766022 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:04:03 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20759540 Graystoke : Hope this isn't a dumb question. When I open about:config, to follow the speed tweaks posted by Grail Knight, there is nothing listed under "config.trim", or "content." anything. Everything else is there. Is this normal? Do I have to set up a new user.js file and enter them there? ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20759540 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:37:14 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20741033 Grail Knight : Thanks. I used this in the past and noticed a slight difference but was using Adobe Photoshop to handle color management based on this comment below from MoZine.org.

A Caveat though;

quote:
* Without a properly calibrated monitor and a correct color profile, color management may actually make colors look worse.

»kb.mozillazine.org/Gfx.color_man···.enabled
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"Facts beat FUD any day of the week and twice on Sundays".]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20741033 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:57:50 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20740920 timcuth : Here is a tweak for fun (not speed - it is said to cause a performance hit) that I found on Life Hacker. It is supposed to make FF 3 display pictures with "richer" colors.

gfx.color_management.enabled = true (default is false)

If anyone tries it, let me know what you think. I have it set to true and photos do look great, but it is hard to compare between changing the setting, restarting FF, and going back to a picture.

Tim
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"Life is like this long line, except at the end there ain't no merry-go-round." - Arthur on The King of Queens
~ Project Hope ~ ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20740920 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:24:35 EDT Re: Firefox 3.0 & memory usage http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20740459 Grail Knight : Fx v3 memory usage is way down compared to Fx v2 IMO.

I do not really think about it all that often as I have 2gb ram on my notebook and 3gb in the desktop and memory is there to be used.

IE is part of the OS so who knows how much it is really using.
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"Facts beat FUD any day of the week and twice on Sundays".]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20740459 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:14:10 EDT Firefox 3.0 & memory usage http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20739928 peter_m : Is it me or is FireFox 3.0 still heavy onthe memory usage????

I still find IE7 uses less ram, or is it just me? Has anyone noticed this?

Peter]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20739928 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:24:19 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20739556 Grail Knight : Sorry I never got a notice that I had a reply here.

I left config.trim_on_minimize in because I could find no mention of it being removed at Bugzilla and another Mozilla Site lists it as being in all versions since 0.9.

If it has been taken out leaving the entry in will harm nothing. I set mine to false as it seems to help Fx maximize faster after being minimized for a long length of time due to not allowing Fx to swap out memory while minimized.

Edit* Fixed spelling.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20739556 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:49:12 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20715984 anon : hey Grail Knight, you should remove the "config.trim_minimize" tweak since it no longer exists for Firefox 3.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20715984 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:02:34 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20709510 Grail Knight : You are welcome.

I noticed that it was not in the root. :D
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"Facts beat FUD any day of the week and twice on Sundays".]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20709510 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:28:22 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20709505 mbi777 : Thank you so much Grail Knight!......It wasn't in the root of the Profile Folder. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20709505 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:27:48 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20709482 Grail Knight : The user.js file belongs in the root of the profile folder.

If you see other files like places.sqlite, prefs.js, bookmarks folder then you have the user.js in the correct location.

Restart Fx to take effect.
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"Facts beat FUD any day of the week and twice on Sundays".]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20709482 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:20:47 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20709466 mbi777 : Another newbie here....Made user.js file, put in
C:\Documents and Settings\User/Application Data\Mozila\Firefox\Profiles and when I checked about:config there wasn't any additions or changes.
Hopefully you can see the pic.
Thanks for your help!

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20709466 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:17:43 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20706449 Grail Knight : It does not matter what order they are in.

The prefs.js will pick up the changes.
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"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity".]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20706449 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:50:01 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20706435 Psicop : GK,

Thanks for this new set. I just installed it in Win and works fine. Not available in Ubuntu yet. I guess they still have to sort out lots of other stuff first as I get almost daily updates to the latest version.

I got a coupe of Q:

1. Where is that awesome bar? Can't find it.

2. Is it OK to save the different tweaks in that list mixed up? I mean like this:

user_pref("browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers", 3);
user_pref("newsfox.advanced.favicons", false);
user_pref("metrics.upload.enable", false);

There is a "browser" tweak mixed up with newsfox and metrics. Instead of saving the browser one with its group.

Cheers.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20706435 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:35:46 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20689769 Grail Knight : It is faster to just make a new one.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20689769 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:34:54 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20688712 anon : Should I make a new .js file or make these changes in the one from v2?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20688712 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:15:58 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20688029 Grail Knight : Thanks.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20688029 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:56:14 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20686338 33591094 : Nice and slim up top now....

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20686338 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:35:37 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20686285 33591094 :

said by SafireDonkey

said by 33591094

:

Here's one for you...

FF 2.0 has a userchrome tweak which would remove the line between the navigation and bookmark toolbars. Does anyone know what that tweak is, and if it works on FF 3.0?

I think the answer is :

Yep - that's the ticket, all right. Thanks. :)

Now with those lines out of the way, you can use the following tweak to slim down the toolbars, by removing some padding...

Now things are looking familiar again... :D
]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20686285 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:24:27 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20686216 SafireDonkey :

said by 33591094

:

Here's one for you...

FF 2.0 has a userchrome tweak which would remove the line between the navigation and bookmark toolbars. Does anyone know what that tweak is, and if it works on FF 3.0?

I think the answer is :
]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20686216 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:14:39 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20685941 anon : I liked your tweaks for Fx2 so its only natural that I like your tweaks for Fx3 too. Very good job Grail Knight!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20685941 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:27:47 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20685135 33591094 : Here's one for you...

FF 2.0 has a userchrome tweak which would remove the line between the navigation and bookmark toolbars. Does anyone know what that tweak is, and if it works on FF 3.0?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20685135 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:01:21 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20681242 Grail Knight : You are welcome Konaguy.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20681242 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:05:08 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20681186 Konaguy :

said by Grail Knight

:

You are welcome.

I say that a lot also. :D

Thanks a bunch GK. Your tweaks helped immeasurably here too. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20681186 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:46:27 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20681147 Grail Knight : You are welcome.

I say that a lot also. :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20681147 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:33:04 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20681144 kingb71 :

said by 33591094

:

Here's a tip for folks who've installed Firefox 3, and then copied over the usual key items from their old profile - avoid copying over your user.js file.

My install seemed 'pokey' compared to my wife's fresh install, and clearing out my user.js file made everything snappy again. There must have been an invalid setting carried over from 2.0, I suppose.

Now I can check out the specific 3.0 tweaks in this thread... :)

Yes, mine was too which left me wondering what the hype about fx 3.0 was all about, now it rocks! Thanks again GK (geez...I seem to say that a lot!)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20681144 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:32:27 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20678322 Grail Knight : Inadvertently left it in when C&P.

Will not hurt anything.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20678322 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:58:50 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20677448 33591094 : Here's a tip for folks who've installed Firefox 3, and then copied over the usual key items from their old profile - avoid copying over your user.js file.

My install seemed 'pokey' compared to my wife's fresh install, and clearing out my user.js file made everything snappy again. There must have been an invalid setting carried over from 2.0, I suppose.

Now I can check out the specific 3.0 tweaks in this thread... :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20677448 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:05:05 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20669349 jmorlan : Hi Grail Knight

,

About this tweak:

user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);

Since this is the default value even if the string does not exist, I was curious why you include it.

Thanks.
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"Old age is always 15 years older than I am." (Francis Bacon)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20669349 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:49:06 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20664218 Grail Knight : That is to hide favicons in the Newsfox extension.

It is just there for anyone that may be using the extension and does not want favicons to be embedded in the RSS Feeds.

Edit* I will make a note about that in the opening post.

Thanks for reminding me.
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"We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception".]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20664218 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:25:40 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20664081 jmorlan : What does this one do?

user_pref("newsfox.advanced.favicons", false);

When I google it, the only entry points to this post?
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"Old age is always 15 years older than I am." (Francis Bacon)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20664081 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:54:06 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20663259 jmorlan :

said by greenhatch

:

Done! Favicons gone!

Cool! Glad it worked for you.
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"Old age is always 15 years older than I am." (Francis Bacon)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20663259 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:56:28 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20660848 greenhatch : Done! Favicons gone!
Thanks!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20660848 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:04:12 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20660648 greenhatch : I'll have a shot at it, thanks.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20660648 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:58:32 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20660596 jmorlan :

said by greenhatch

:

I had read that but needs to be simpler for me. Sqlite would be beyond me.

That's what I thought until I actually did it. To delete all your favicons, just delete the moz_favicons table that holds them. I followed the instructions at:

»forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic···&start=3
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"Old age is always 15 years older than I am." (Francis Bacon)

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20660596 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:33:20 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20660553 Grail Knight : Okay

Look over here then. The thread has tips for novices to experts.

»forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic···ghlight=
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"We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception".]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20660553 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:11:17 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20660533 greenhatch : I had read that but needs to be simpler for me. Sqlite would be beyond me.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20660533 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:00:19 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20660532 Grail Knight : Make sure there are no punctuation or spelling errors as well as extra spacing.

Clear the Fx cache and restart Fx.
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"We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception".]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20660532 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:59:58 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20660528 Grail Knight : »[FireFox] FavIcons broken in FF 3.0]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20660528 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:58:14 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20660525 greenhatch : Hi Grail Knight
Do you have any ideas how one can simply remove favicons from the bookmarks list please? The about:config settings 'browser.chrome.favicons' and 'browser.chrome.site_icons' set to false only do the trick for new bookmarks, not old ones.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20660525 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:54:30 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20660453 Indoobidubly : Hey Grail Knight, I was wondering if you could help me out with a user.js problem that I'm having.

I took your FF3 tweaks and put them into a user.js file, then put that file into my FF3 profile folder.

However, the tweaks from the user.js file DO NOT show up in about:config. For example, "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" is at 8 in the user.js file, but on about:config it still reads as 4.

I did this with FF2 so I'm pretty sure I'm not making any mistakes.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20660453 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:00:30 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20631975 anon : I've used your tweaks for Fx2, they work fine. This newest tweak seems to choke the latest RC of Fx3, making it terribly slow. Any ideas?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20631975 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:28:38 EDT Re: Is the user.js file the same as userchrome.css ??? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20624687 Grail Knight : No problem at all.
You are welcome.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20624687 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:58:54 EDT Re: Is the user.js file the same as userchrome.css ??? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20624678 deltau1 : Thanks GK for the guidance and your dedicated support of Firefox. Make that many thanks.

Marv]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20624678 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:56:59 EDT Re: Is the user.js file the same as userchrome.css ??? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20624658 Grail Knight : Just follow my link at the top of this page.

You somehow ended up at the userChrome.css tweaks which is different. CSS tweaks are for the layout and look of Fx.

The user.js tweaks control function, extension settings, Fx settings etc...
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"We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception".]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20624658 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:53:28 EDT Re: Is the user.js file the same as userchrome.css ??? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20624644 deltau1 : GK

In the firefox example file it says

"/*
* Edit this file and copy it as userChrome.css into your
* profile-directory/chrome/
*/

/*
* This file can be used to customize the look of Mozilla's user interface
* You should consider using !important on rules which you want to
* override default settings.
*/

/*
* Do not remove the @namespace line -- it's required for correct functioning
*/
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* set default namespace to XUL */

/*
* Some possible accessibility enhancements:
*/
/*
* Make all the default font sizes 20 pt:
*
* * {
* font-size: 20pt !important
* }
*/
/*
* Make menu items in particular 15 pt instead of the default size:
*
* menupopup > * {
* font-size: 15pt !important
* }
*/
/*
* Give the Location (URL) Bar a fixed-width font
*
* #urlbar {
* font-family: monospace !important;
* }
*/

/*
* Eliminate the throbber and its annoying movement:
*
* #throbber-box {
* display: none !important;
* }
*/

/*
* For more examples see »www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html
*/

That's where I found it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20624644 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:50:11 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20623866 Grail Knight : No problem at all.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20623866 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:25:13 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20623854 timcuth : Problem solved - I had user.js in the wrong folder. Thanks!

Tim]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20623854 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:22:10 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20623821 Grail Knight : Not a big deal just start over.

If you are using Windows make sure under Folder Options that

View - Hide Extensions for Known File Types is unchecked.

Now make the user.txt and copy the tweaks into it.

Rename as user.js and put user.js file you made in the Fx Profile folder.

Edit* If you have trouble locating the Profile folder look over here for info on it.

»support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Pro···_profile

Remember that the user.js needs to be put in the Profile Folder only. Not in the chrome folder or any other folder located in the Profile Folder.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20623821 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:14:10 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20623779 timcuth : Hmmm. I renamed my new user.js to something else, restarted, and it still has all those user-set preferences in about:config. It seems to be picking them up from somewhere else. Now, I am even more confused. :hmm:

Tim
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"Life is like this long line, except at the end there ain't no merry-go-round." - Arthur on The King of Queens
~ Project Hope ~ ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20623779 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:05:36 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20623666 Grail Knight : If there is even one error in the user.js it will throw things off such as some .html code.

I use the extension Copy Plain Text to copy code online.
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"We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception".]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20623666 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:45:44 EDT Re: Is the user.js file the same as userchrome.css ??? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20623636 Grail Knight : Where does it say that at?

My first post has a link to the site detailing how to create a user.js file which is then saved in the Profile Folder.
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"We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception".]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20623636 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:41:01 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20623629 timcuth : I am a bit confused. I created a new user.js file and copied and pasted most of the listed tweaks. Most of them were set, as specified (verified by viewing all settings in about:config). However, others were indicated as having been changed by the user, but the values were different from those specified. For example, browser.cache.memory.capacity was set to -1. I re-edited it in about:config to 18432, restarted FF, and that time it took. Other parameters were also mishandled.

What is happening?

Oh, and thanks very much for the tweaks, Grail Knight

Tim
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"Life is like this long line, except at the end there ain't no merry-go-round." - Arthur on The King of Queens
~ Project Hope ~ ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20623629 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:39:52 EDT Is the user.js file the same as userchrome.css ??? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20623486 deltau1 : GK
Instructions say to save file as userchrome.css rather than user.js Is there any reason not to save the tweak file as userchrome.css??? or should it be named user.js and saved in the profile directory/chrome???]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20623486 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:11:48 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20564298 Bobby_Peru : Hmmm, I will have to recheck then when I close Fx, which I do not do very often. I am pretty certain that prior to making your above posted ALT-C change, the Awesome Bar (umm, AB, sorry AB

...), it retained some data, but I may be mistaken.

I can definitely see the gain of space as a positive, though with Compact Menu, Piro's Tree-Tabs on the left side (still experimenting with it's new Auto-hide feature), and Window's Toolbar on the right (always on Auto-Hide), on my "ancient" 18" CRT (17" usable), it's really horizontal space that is at a premium, here, at least. Plus, I do Tab-Group openings, which I don't think the new Bar will handle, though I haven't looked to try so, yet.

I know what you mean about having so many bookmarks. Which reminds me to do a dead and unwanted duplicate check, again, sometime soon!

I will give the AB a whirl again, at some point, as like you said, it has it's benefits!

That's the beauty of Fx, each user can customize it to a close approximation of how they would like it (which brings up an Extension that I recently saw for the first time, iMacros, but that is for another Thread...).
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How to Secure (and Keep Secure) My (New) Computer(s): A Layered Approach]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20564298 Fri, 30 May 2008 14:50:14 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20563212 Grail Knight : I know when I close Fx that my histories are cleared and the address bar history is always flushed.

I personally like the new Awesome Bar as it eliminates having the bookmark bar allowing for more screen space and it is so much faster going through my 1000+ bookmarks and history well surfing. YMMV

Edit* Spelling
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quote:
"We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20563212 Fri, 30 May 2008 11:36:17 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20563098 Bobby_Peru : Now that is an awesome tweak. :) Which brings up a few questions - I wonder if this eliminates this type of "history" from being stored somewhere in Fx? If not, can it be selectively scrubbed?

Under PRIVACY--> History: neither unticking "Keep My History...", nor ticking it, and setting it at "0 Days" killed off the "Awesome Bar's" (not quite as bad marketing panache as "From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor"...) display of history, and the ability to select which data entry areas of Forms and the Search Bar appear to now be conflated. :(
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How to Secure (and Keep Secure) My (New) Computer(s): A Layered Approach]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20563098 Fri, 30 May 2008 11:16:43 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20559608 Grail Knight : Seeing how the new Awesome Bar (Address Bar) is not hitting it off with some here is another tweak.

Disable the AwesomeBar and make the Fx v3 Address Bar work like the Fx v2 Address Bar series.

Type about:config in the address bar (Enter)

Filter to:

browser.urlbar.maxRichResults

Set the value to "0" w/out quotes.

From MoFo:

quote:
Setting the preference to 0 effectively disables the Location Bar dropdown entirely.

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[quote]"We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.[/quote]]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20559608 Thu, 29 May 2008 18:02:24 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20513291 mod_wastrel : I might argue that the very first one in the list (config.trim_on_minimize) will actually slow you down some rather than speed up things (but I won't ;D)--it sort of contravenes Firefox's desire to be a memory hog (Fx2 anyway); freeing and getting memory is at least some administrative overhead versus simply not freeing it at all.

I actually played around with this some because I noticed a problem with my minimize button ceasing to function after awhile when this preference was on/true. First I thought it might be a conflict with some extension, so I played with it in a vanilla Fx: same thing after awhile. Oddly, the Minimize option in the control menu still worked fine even when the button didn't. But this was some releases ago, and I found that just doing a restart when I felt memory consumption exceeded my desired level worked fine. However, the "memory hog" problem is supposed to be resolved (?) in Fx3... here's hopin'.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20513291 Tue, 20 May 2008 16:43:39 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20503897 Grail Knight : Use the tweaks for Fx v2.

The link is in the sidebar.

or

»/forum/remark%2c19068939
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"When the questions get tough the tough pull a MuMu". - unknown]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20503897 Sun, 18 May 2008 22:18:57 EDT Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20503851 ajm786 : I have a question. Will there be any problems caused if I use these tweaks for Firefox 2?

Thanks!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20503851 Sun, 18 May 2008 22:10:32 EDT Re: Tweakin for Fun/Speed Update http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20127159 Grail Knight : You are welcome.

Enjoy.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20127159 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:06:07 EDT Re: Tweakin for Fun/Speed Update http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20127138 anon : Thank you so much, I can't wait to try them out and see the difference!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20127138 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:02:47 EDT Re: Tweakin for Fun/Speed Update http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20127004 Grail Knight : Use these:

»Re: [FireFox] Tweak Updated

Edit* Removed Fx v2 tweaks and put link to them instead to keep them separate from the ones above.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20127004 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:39:01 EDT Re: Tweakin for Fun/Speed Update http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20126986 anon : Hey Grail knight, I noticed three sets of tweaks but am not sure which of the 3 to use for tweaking? I'm a new firefox user and it has completely awakened my interest in the net again- no more I.E., by the way I'm using V. 2.0.0.12, should I use the 1st which you posted back in april of 07, or the updated one that you posted on 9 of 07. I'm not very technical but that's what I love about FireFox- Its so easy to customize!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20126986 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:37:13 EDT Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20125122 Grail Knight : Well it is time to tweak Fx v3 series.

As before the same rules apply and instructions on how to use or create the user.js are here.

Speed Tweaks not much different then for v2.
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user_pref("config.trim_on_minimize", true);
user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
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", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 32);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 20);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 20);

user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.firstrequest", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 100);

user_pref("network.http.keep-alive", true);
user_pref("network.http.keep-alive.timeout", 600);
user_pref("network.http.request.max-start-delay", 10);
user_pref("network.dnsCacheExpiration", 3600);
user_pref("network.dnsCacheEntries", 1000);

user_pref("browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers", 3);
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* This pertains to the tweak contained in the above Speed Tweaks

user_pref("config.trim_on_minimize", true);

Setting this to true may slow down maximizing from the tray if FireFox depending on the users computers memory. Set it to false if you find that FireFox is slow to maximize from the tray.

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This tweak will disable favicons in the NewsFox Extension.

user_pref("newsfox.advanced.favicons", false);
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Some minor privacy/security tweaks for those into that sort of thing. :)

user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", false);

user_pref("browser.microsummary.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.microsummary.updateGenerators", false);
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Now this tweak depends on how much ram a user has installed so check the specs below and adjust the value accordingly. These are from Fx v2 but I have read of no changes in memory values for Fx v3 beta and these work fine for me. YMMV so experiment.

user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 18432);
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Usable values:

Physical RAM Memory Cache (in KB)
32 MB 2048
64 MB 4096
128 MB 6144
256 MB 10240
512 MB 14336
1 GB 18432
2 GB 24576
4 GB 30720
8 GB and up 32768

Do not cache decoded images and chrome in memory. 0
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GUI Tweaks to hide or show things or keep them from starting.

user_pref("browser.chrome.favicons", false);
user_pref("browser.chrome.site_icons", false);
user_pref("browser.display.show_image_placeholders", true);

user_pref("accessibility.accesskeycausesactivation", false);
user_pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind.enablesound", false);
user_pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind.autostart", false);
user_pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind", false);
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The new Awesome Bar feature may not be liked by some so it can be tweaked a bit.

user_pref("browser.urlbar.maxRichResults", 20);

Default is 25

user_pref("browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped", false);

Setting this to true will only search for previously typed addresses.

If the user really wants the old Fx v2 address bar use the Old Bar extension available from here.

»https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227
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Seeing how the new Awesome Bar (Address Bar) is not hitting it off with some here is another tweak.

Disable the AwesomeBar and make the Fx v3 Address Bar work like the Fx v2 Address Bar series.

Type about:config in the address bar (Enter)

Filter to:

browser.urlbar.maxRichResults

Set the value to "0" w/out quotes.

From MoFo:

quote:
Setting the preference to 0 effectively disables the Location Bar dropdown entirely.

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Make sure you restart Fx after applying any of the tweaks and if they do not take check your entries in the user.js to make sure you did not miss any punctuation.

Anything here can be found searching Mozilla Foundations Site or just Google each entry and read up on it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20125122 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:13:24 EDT