Lightning Fast Browsing & tweaks

[NoiT]

ok both me and heli tried this out with firefox and it actaully works.
Firefox is much faster in loading sites with this tweak.
Havent tried explorer though

[-=Magpie=-]

wooo that dose make quite a difference (firefox here) wooo its loaded .

[Pug']

yeah damn, I just did it now and it's crazy fast!

[NoiT]

This is for firefox.
Another thing u can do is type the about:config in the adress bar
filter out nglayout
if u have a string called: nglayout.initialpaint.delay set this to 0
if u dont have a string called that right click and choose "new string"
name the string nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set it to 0

This value is the amount of time (ms) firefox waits before it acts on information it recieves.

The default value is 750 ms .. which means Firefox waits about 1sec before receiving the data and drawing it on screen.

PS: u have to restart firefox after u did the changes

[NoiT]

can confirm that it works with IE aswell. i have it at work.
Not as much affect as firefox though

[NoiT]

thanx m8

[NoiT]

Some new "neat" tricks that can help ure everyday browsing with Firefox.
Weel not new to alot of you guys, but some might pick up a handy trick or two



# to quickly find any word in a web page type /word - it will highlight the word and press Ctrl+G to find that word again

# To search a website for a particular word press ctrl+f and type in the word. same as above, but here u can choose "go to next" or previous

# If you wish to remove an item from your Address Bar Drop down menu, highlight it without clicking and press Shift+Delete.

# Clear your Download history to make the download manager more responsive : Tools | Options | Privacy

# Type about:cache?device=disk in your address bar to view/save items that you have in your Firefox disk cache

# Type about:cache?device=memory in your address bar to view/save items that you have in your Firefox memory cache

# Drag any link to the Download Manager Window to add & download the link.

# If you accidentally delete a bookmark and want to recover it, open the “Bookmarks Manager” and use Ctrl+Z, or Edit | Undo.

# Double Clicking empty space on the Tab Bar will open a ‘New Tab’

# Holding down the Ctrl key when you right click to “View Image” or “View Background Image” will open the image in a New Tab or New Window.

# A bookmarks folder’s position can also be dragged & dropped but you must hold down the SHIFT key while Dragging.

# To prevent a website from replacing/changing your right click context menu go to Tools > Options > Web Features then click the “advanced tab” and de-select “remove or replace context menus”. Inf Firefox 2 and above go to Tools>Options> content>Advanced

# You can work offline in Firefox just go to File > Work Offline. This means that you can browse your previously visited pages even when you’re offline this is a really cool feature but not many people who use it.

# You can bookmark the current page by dragging the icon from the location bar to your Bookmarks folder. You can also drag it to the desktop to make an icon for that page.

# To stop animated gifs from moving, press the ESC key.

Accidentally close a tab? Restore it with Ctrl+Shift+T

[NoiT]

Heres a list of useful keyboard and mouse shortcuts.

Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
Example 4
Example 5

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[NoiT]

Here is a guide of what the different configs do

[NoiT]

Much the anti-thesis of my “I hate IE” post, I love Firefox. From principle to practice, it just is what a browser should be.

That said, one of the things that’s been bugging me lately about Firefox is that it is just crap on resources. I admit, I’m terrible with having 19 trillion tabs open at the same time, and that’s bound to slow stuff down. But, what I don’t like is that even after those tabs are closed and I’m back down to me and Google’s minimalism, Firefox can still be tipping the scales at 150+ MB of RAM.
Firefox is too fat

Hunting around a bit I found an excellent little post that explains how to stop this memory vacuum from getting away from you.

1. Simply type about:config in your browser’s address bar.
2. On the resulting screen, right-click and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the input box that appears, type config.trim_on_minimize. Press enter.
4. Select True, and hit enter.

What this does is causes Firefox to dump to your hard drive when you minimize it. Upon re-maximization, it loads back into RAM, but at a fraction of the bloated size it was. As an example, I just checked Firefox’s memory usage. With three tabs open, I was sitting around 80 MB of RAM being used. On minimization, this immediately dropped to under 10 MB. The upon maximization, it went up to 40 MB or so.

As I often have a lot of application open at once, the ability to control their memory usage like this is fantastic. If you use Thunderbird as your mail program, you can make the exact same modification. To get into the About Config, simply navigate to Tools / Options / Advanced / Config Editor.

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