Topic 'Re: Tweakin for Fun/Speed Update' in forum 'Mozilla Software' - dslreports.com

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:49:09 EDT

Grail Knight posted : You are welcome.

Enjoy!

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:26:33 EDT

Graystoke posted : 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

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:08:06 EDT

Grail Knight posted : Ya I see that now.

Long day here. Thanks..

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:44:26 EDT

jmorlan posted :

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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Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:36:47 EDT

Grail Knight posted : Tried what? All of the tweaks or just a few?

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:33:05 EDT

DataDoc posted : 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.)

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:04:03 EDT

Grail Knight posted :

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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Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:37:14 EDT

Graystoke posted : 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?

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:57:50 EDT

Grail Knight posted : 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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Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:24:35 EDT

timcuth posted : 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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Re: Firefox 3.0 & memory usage

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:14:10 EDT

Grail Knight posted : 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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Firefox 3.0 & memory usage

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:24:19 EDT

peter_m posted : 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

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:49:12 EDT

Grail Knight posted : 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.

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:02:34 EDT

anon posted : hey Grail Knight, you should remove the "config.trim_minimize" tweak since it no longer exists for Firefox 3.

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:28:22 EDT

Grail Knight posted : You are welcome.

I noticed that it was not in the root. :D
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Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:27:48 EDT

mbi777 posted : Thank you so much Grail Knight!......It wasn't in the root of the Profile Folder.

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:20:47 EDT

Grail Knight posted : 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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Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:17:43 EDT

mbi777 posted : 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!

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:50:01 EDT

Grail Knight posted : It does not matter what order they are in.

The prefs.js will pick up the changes.
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Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:35:46 EDT

psicop posted : 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.

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:34:54 EDT

Grail Knight posted : It is faster to just make a new one.

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:15:58 EDT

anon posted : Should I make a new .js file or make these changes in the one from v2?

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:56:14 EDT

Grail Knight posted : Thanks.

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:35:37 EDT

33591094 posted : Nice and slim up top now....

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:24:27 EDT

33591094 posted :

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...

/* Remove extra padding from the Navigation Bar */.toolbarbutton-1, .toolbarbutton-menubutton-button {padding: 2px 3px !important;}.toolbarbutton-1[checked="true"], .toolbarbutton-1[open="true"],.toolbarbutton-menubutton-button[checked="true"],.toolbarbutton-menubutton-button[open="true"] {padding: 4px 1px 1px 4px !important;}

Now things are looking familiar again... :D

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:14:39 EDT

SafireDonkey posted :

I think the answer is :

#nav-bar {  -moz-appearance: none !important;  border-bottom: none !important;}#PersonalToolbar {  -moz-appearance: none !important;  border-top: none !important;}

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:27:47 EDT

anon posted : I liked your tweaks for Fx2 so its only natural that I like your tweaks for Fx3 too. Very good job Grail Knight!

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:01:21 EDT

33591094 posted : 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?

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:05:08 EDT

Grail Knight posted : You are welcome Konaguy.

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:46:27 EDT

Konaguy posted :

said by Grail Knight:

You are welcome.

I say that a lot also. :D

Thanks a bunch GK. Your tweaks helped immeasurably here too.

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:33:04 EDT

Grail Knight posted : You are welcome.

I say that a lot also. :D

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:32:27 EDT

kingb71 posted :

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!)

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:58:50 EDT

Grail Knight posted : Inadvertently left it in when C&P.

Will not hurt anything.

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:05:05 EDT

33591094 posted : 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... :)

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:49:06 EDT

jmorlan posted : 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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Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:25:40 EDT

Grail Knight posted : 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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Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:54:06 EDT

jmorlan posted : 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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Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:56:28 EDT

jmorlan posted :

said by greenhatch9:

Done! Favicons gone!

Cool! Glad it worked for you.
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Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:04:12 EDT

greenhatch9 posted : Done! Favicons gone!
Thanks!

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:58:32 EDT

greenhatch9 posted : I'll have a shot at it, thanks.

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:33:20 EDT

jmorlan posted :

said by greenhatch9:

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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Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:11:17 EDT

Grail Knight posted : Okay

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

»forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic···ghlight=
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Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:00:19 EDT

greenhatch9 posted : I had read that but needs to be simpler for me. Sqlite would be beyond me.

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:59:58 EDT

Grail Knight posted : 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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Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:58:14 EDT

Grail Knight posted : »[FireFox] FavIcons broken in FF 3.0

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:54:30 EDT

greenhatch9 posted : 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.

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:00:30 EDT

Indoobidubly posted : 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.

Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:28:38 EDT

anon posted : 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?

Re: Is the user.js file the same as userchrome.css ???

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:58:54 EDT

Grail Knight posted : No problem at all.
You are welcome.

Re: Is the user.js file the same as userchrome.css ???

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:56:59 EDT

deltau1 posted : Thanks GK for the guidance and your dedicated support of Firefox. Make that many thanks.

Marv