Ognelis - tweaks and chips

Many of my friends use Firefox and ask me a question - why do I use Flock? I answer them - I like it when I have access to everything I need in my browser without any gestures. Nevertheless, “this is all” eats up a sufficient amount of RAM, is not always usable and requires “fine-tuning”. Just about fine-tuning and will be discussed below. Immediately I will say, I will not write about the pipeline . The remaining options are enough from about: config.



Immediately, I note that all manipulations in about: config can be rolled back in two ways: either to save the prefs.js file, or to start Firefox in safe mode (there you can select to reset all parameters to default values). So, we proceed.
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Firefox spends RAM at the expense of not always making rational use of the cache, so you can risk him hinting about it. Find the line browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer and put "0" there. Another tweak will reduce the memory consumption to 10 MB in a minimized form - config.trim_on_minimize must be declared as "True".

Users on the wide channel can also try the next option with downloading new pages. We find network.dns.disableIPv6 and set it as “False”, then we create a new string parameter - content.notify.backoffcount and set it to the value “5“. Turn on plugin.expose_full_path (declare it “true”) and add another line ui.submenuDelay . Its value must be equal to "0". As a result, we get a gain in time, because the browser will wait less for a response from the server and the drawing of the menu.

Often, Firefox slows down due to the built-in antivirus (when uploading files). Parameter browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone responsible for this. Expose there "False".

Go to setting up the user interface. It is known that by default Firefox does not treat pop-up windows as new tabs. To change this state of affairs, reset the browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction parameter. If you want to open search results in a new tab (by default, everything opens in the current one), then the browser.search.openintab parameter should be “true”.

Spell checking in all fields is enabled by setting the value “2” in the layout.spellcheckDefault parameter.

When installing add-ons on Firefox many may be annoyed by a small pause, which is made so that the user can refuse to continue the installation of the selected add-on. This timeout is reset by resetting the security.dialog_enable_delay parameter. Continuing the theme of installing add-ons, it can be noted that if you look for them through the built-in manager, then only 5 positions are found in the search results by default. Increasing their number to the desired hundreds is easy - extensions.getAddons.maxResults and the number that corresponds to the required number of addons found (say, 25).

When you reinstall, Firefox saves custom bookmarks to places.sqlite, not to the HTML file. You can make it do the second way by declaring the parameter browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML as “true”.

This tweak may not be used by professional web designers, but nevertheless, in Firefox, you can make the automatic viewing of the page code not in the embedded application, but in a third-party editor. The view_source.editor.external parameter as “true” allows it, and the view_source.editor.path indicates the path to the executable file of the editor.

The latest Firefox tweak today refers to the behavior of the hot key Backspace. The user in the browser.backspace_action parameter is free to set it not only to go to the previous page (then “0” is indicated), but also to the next (“1” is indicated).

In the preparation of the material were used materials from TechRepublic and gnoted.com .