I'm constantly finding new things in Firefox. Just yesterday, I removed the Firefox search options I never used - the defaults such as Yahoo! and Creative Commons, and I added searches for things I would use, such as IMDB, Wikipedia, and a php.net function search. Very nice.
Also, via my uncle Tim, this method that improves broadband page load speeds quite a lot.
1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return.
Scroll down and look for the following entries:
network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which speeds up page loading.
2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. (This means it will make 30 requests at once.)
3. Lastly 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. If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages much faster now.
Thanks to:
Sunbelt Software
101 N Garden Ave
Clearwater, FL 33755
USA
One complaint I've got though - every so often a page will open in a new window (probably due to target="_new" or something) and within that toolbar-less, tab-less window, multiple tabs will open. At that point, there's no way to switch tabs. It's especially annoying when a blank tab window opens on top. Oh well - maybe I'll find an extension somewhere that will disable tabs in popup windows.