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• 12) Speed up Firefox. If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by default, it’s optimized for dialup connections). Here’s how:

  
  
  
  
  • Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Type “network.http” in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
  
  
  • Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
  
  
  • Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
  
  
  • Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
  
  
  • Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives
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• Get to be a Jedi master with the following cool Firefox tricks.
• 2) Smart keywords. If there’s a search you use a lot (let’s say IMDB.com’s people search), this is an awesome tool that not many people use. Right-click on the search box, select “Add a Keyword for this search”, give the keyword a name and an easy-to-type and easy-to-remember shortcut name (let’s say “actor”) and save it. Now, when you want to do an actor search, go to Firefox’s address bar, type “actor” and the name of the actor and press return. Instant search! You can do this with any search box.

• 3) Keyboard shortcuts. This is where you become a real Jedi. It just takes a little while to learn these, but once you do, your browsing will be super fast. Here are some of the most common (and my personal favs):

  
  
  
  
  • Spacebar (page down)
  
  
  • Shift-Spacebar (page up)
  
  
  • Ctrl+F (find)
  
  
  • Alt-N (find next)
  
  
  • Ctrl+D (bookmark page)
  
  
  • Ctrl+T (new tab)
  
  
  • Ctrl+K (go to search box)
  
  
  • Ctrl+L (go to address bar)
  
  
  • Ctrl+= (increase text size)
  
  
  • Ctrl+- (decrease text size)
  
  
  • Ctrl-W (close tab)
  
  
  • F5 (reload)
  
  
  • Alt-Home (go to home page)
  
  
  
  

  4) Auto-complete. This is another keyboard shortcut, but it’s not commonly known and very useful. Go to the address bar (Control-L) and type the name of the site without the “www” or the “.com”. Let’s say “google”. Then press Control-Enter, and it will automatically fill in the “www” and the “.com” and take you there - like magic! For .net addresses, press Shift-Enter, and for .org addresses, press Control-Shift-Enter.

  
  

  5) Tab navigation. Instead of using the mouse to select different tabs that you have open, use the keyboard. Here are the shortcuts:

  
  
  
  
  • Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward among tabs)
  
  
  • Ctrl+Shft+Tab (rotate to the previous tab)
  
  
  • Ctrl+1-9 (choose a number to jump to a specific tab)
  
  
  
  

  6) Mouse shortcuts. Sometimes you’re already using your mouse and it’s easier to use a mouse shortcut than to go back to the keyboard. Master these cool ones:

  
  
  
  
  • Middle click on link (opens in new tab)
  
  
  • Shift-scroll down (previous page)
  
  
  • Shift-scroll up (next page)
  
  
  • Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size)
  
  
  • Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size)
  
  
  • Middle click on a tab (closes tab)
  
  
  
  

  7) Delete items from address bar history. Firefox’s ability to automatically show previous URLs you’ve visited, as you type, in the address bar’s drop-down history menu is very cool. But sometimes you just don’t want those URLs to show up (I won’t ask why). Go to the address bar (Ctrl-L), start typing an address, and the drop-down menu will appear with the URLs of pages you’ve visited with those letters in them. Use the down-arrow to go down to an address you want to delete, and press the Delete key to make it disappear.

• 3) Keyboard shortcuts. This is where you become a real Jedi. It just takes a little while to learn these, but once you do, your browsing will be super fast. Here are some of the most common (and my personal favs):

  
  
  
  
  • Spacebar (page down)
  
  
  • Shift-Spacebar (page up)
  
  
  • Ctrl+F (find)
  
  
  • Alt-N (find next)
  
  
  • Ctrl+D (bookmark page)
  
  
  • Ctrl+T (new tab)
  
  
  • Ctrl+K (go to search box)
  
  
  • Ctrl+L (go to address bar)
  
  
  • Ctrl+= (increase text size)
  
  
  • Ctrl+- (decrease text size)
  
  
  • Ctrl-W (close tab)
  
  
  • F5 (reload)
  
  
  • Alt-Home (go to home page)
  
  
  
  

  4) Auto-complete. This is another keyboard shortcut, but it’s not commonly known and very useful. Go to the address bar (Control-L) and type the name of the site without the “www” or the “.com”. Let’s say “google”. Then press Control-Enter, and it will automatically fill in the “www” and the “.com” and take you there - like magic! For .net addresses, press Shift-Enter, and for .org addresses, press Control-Shift-Enter.

  
  

  5) Tab navigation. Instead of using the mouse to select different tabs that you have open, use the keyboard. Here are the shortcuts:

  
  
  
  
  • Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward among tabs)
  
  
  • Ctrl+Shft+Tab (rotate to the previous tab)
  
  
  • Ctrl+1-9 (choose a number to jump to a specific tab)
  
  
  
  

  6) Mouse shortcuts. Sometimes you’re already using your mouse and it’s easier to use a mouse shortcut than to go back to the keyboard. Master these cool ones:

  
  
  
  
  • Middle click on link (opens in new tab)
  
  
  • Shift-scroll down (previous page)
  
  
  • Shift-scroll up (next page)
  
  
  • Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size)
  
  
  • Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size)
  
  
  • Middle click on a tab (closes tab)
• • Spacebar (page down)
  
  
  • Shift-Spacebar (page up)
  
  
  • Ctrl+F (find)
  
  
  • Alt-N (find next)
  
  
  • Ctrl+D (bookmark page)
  
  
  • Ctrl+T (new tab)
  
  
  • Ctrl+K (go to search box)
  
  
  • Ctrl+L (go to address bar)
  
  
  • Ctrl+= (increase text size)
  
  
  • Ctrl+- (decrease text size)
  
  
  • Ctrl-W (close tab)
  
  
  • F5 (reload)
  
  
  • Alt-Home (
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  • on 2007-05-17 Thomasbb
    Not many people know this. Perhaps someone should make a blog entry about this heature alone.
• If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by default, it’s optimized for dialup connections).

• 12) Speed up Firefox. If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by default, it’s optimized for dialup connections). Here’s how:

  
  
  
  
  • Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Type “network.http” in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
  
  
  • Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
  
  
  • Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
  
  
  • Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
  
  
  • Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

• 12) Speed up Firefox. If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by default, it"s optimized for dialup connections). Here"s how:

  
  
  
  
  • Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Type "network.http" in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
  
  
  • Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
  
  
  • Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
  
  
  • Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
  
  
  • Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0〞. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
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• This setting will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, taking up much less memory. And there is no noticeable difference in speed when you restore Firefox, so it’s definitely worth a go.
• 13) Limit RAM usage. If Firefox takes up too much memory on your computer, you can limit the amount of RAM it is allowed to us. Again, go to about:config, filter “browser.cache” and select “browser.cache.disk.capacity”. It’s set to 50000, but you can lower it, depending on how much memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between 512MB and 1GB ram.
• 14) Reduce RAM usage further for when Firefox is minimized. This setting will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, taking up much less memory. And there is no noticeable difference in speed when you restore Firefox, so it’s definitely worth a go. Again, go to about:config, right-click anywhere and select New-> Boolean. Name it “config.trim_on_minimize” and set it to TRUE. You have to restart Firefox for these settings to take effect.
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• on 2007-05-21 Telecommatt
  This is a great list of ways to be more productive with FF without adding more bulky extensions.