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Some FF tweaks. - venam - 31-08-2012

Hello *nixer,
Here are some things I do on my favorite browser Firefox/Icecat/Iceweasel/Nightly/etc..
(Note: with these settings FF might be more aggressive on CPU, it might even slow down the browsing)

**List**:
* Hide the menu.
* Remove the bookmark tool-bar and other things unwanted in the bar.
* Make the icons in the bar smaller, or remove it completely.
* Remove unwanted plug-ins and add-ons.
* Use external program to do things you can do outside the browser: aria2 as a download manager, adsuck as an adblocker,etc..
* get a nice personas, dark ones are great.
* always use the latest version of FF
* create a nice userChrome.css (this file may not necessarly exist and you might have to creat the dir chrome and the file in it).
* use userChrome to modify other websites (to your needs):
Code:
@import url("./imports/some_file.css");
* Turn of anti-phising
Code:
$ rm -i ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile_dir>/urlclassifier*
$ cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile_dir>
$ echo "" > urlclassifier3.sqlite
$ chmod 400 urlclassifier3.sqlite
* change some about:config (use these configurations at your own risks):

_NOTE_: after further research, I advise you to use configuration mania instead of most of the about:config changes.
**Configs**:
Quote:general.warnOnAboutConfig;false
layout.css.dpi;0
ui.submenuDelay;0
network.proxy.socks_remote_dns;true
nglayout.initialpaint.delay;0
content.interrupt.parsing;true
content.notify.ontimer;true
content.max.tokenizing.time;100000
content.notify.backoffcount;-1
content.notify.interval;100000
content.switch.threshold;2000000 or 350000 (if you lower it the UI will be less responsive but the page will load faster)
browser.cache.disk.enable;false
browser.cache.memory.enable;true
browser.cache.memory.max_entry_size;-1
mousewheel.acceleration.factor;25
security.dialog_enable_delay;500 (speed up security delay)
browser.display.show_image_placeholders;false display image place before loading
browser.tabs.animate;false
network.prefetch-next;true/false (false uses less ram)
network.http.pipelining.ssl;true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests;8
network.http.pipelining.max-optimistic-requests;8
network.http.pipelining.aggressive;False
network.http.pipelining;true
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server;8
network.http.keep-alive.timeout;115
network.http.max-connections-per-server;8
network.dns.disableIPv6;true
html5.parser.enable;false
browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value;5120
browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run;false
browser.cache.disk.capacity;5120
browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction;0
browser.urlbar.showPopup;false
browser.block.target_new_window;true
browser.fullscreen.animateUp;0
browser.urlbar.filter.javascript;false
geo.enabled;false
general.smoothScroll;false
security.enable_java;false
browser.cache.memory.capacity;2048
browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers;5
media.cache_size;20480
image.cache.size;40960
browser.cache.offline.capacity;20480

**Some nice add-ons** :
* configuration mania (to easily modify certain values)
* cookies manager +
* downloads in tab (to always put the download in a tab intead of a new window)
* firebug (the famouse one)
* fvd speed dial (a nice speed dial)
* https-everywhere (the boring one)
* live http headers (analyse http request)
* tamper data (another analyser)
* UAcontrol (change user-agent per site)
* vimperator (the famous one)
* Tab Mix Plus (helps you tweak your tabs)
* FEBE (a backup tool)
* FlashGot (To use an external download manager like axel, aria2, wget, and company)

**Related**:
[link to the browser screenshot thread](http://forums.unixhub.net/showthread.php?tid=449)
[link to the Arch wiki trips](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox_Tips_and_Tweaks)
[FF ramdisk](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox_Ramdisk)

RE: Some FF tweaks I use. - Nihility - 15-10-2012

vimperator imo is handy

RE: Some FF tweaks. - venam - 26-07-2013

I updated this thread with more infos and links.

RE: Some FF tweaks. - Ippytraxx - 26-07-2013

I'll just leave this here

RE: Some FF tweaks. - hades - 27-07-2013

Vimperator is the bee's knees if you don't have a god-tier mouse, or if you just don't like using the mouse. I was attempting to use my girlfriend's laptop the other day (I was helping her with a paper) and when I opened firefox, I felt so silly clicking in the address bar and having to use that clumsy touchpad to navigate. I smiled when I got back to my laptop, opened Iceweasel, and never touched my mouse a single time as I jumped from page to page, from link to link, singing happily all the way.

RE: Some FF tweaks. - eye - 27-07-2013

nice one. Might need some of the tweaks.

RE: Some FF tweaks. - Jayro - 27-07-2013

This is a great guide for anyone using Firefox. I use Chrome myself but have been considering changing it up.