One of the biggest issues that I personally have with Firefox, and that for a very long time, is the fact that add-on preferences are not deleted when the add-on that has written them to the config is uninstalled in the browser. This means that the config file grows over time. Up until now I [...]

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How do you like your tabs to open in the Firefox web browser? Mozilla has changed the default tab opening behavior in Firefox 3.6 noticeably. Related tabs open to the right of the active tab, while unrelated tabs open at the end of the tab row. That’s inconsistent and something that has bothered me for [...]

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The Firefox web browser stores a lot of its preferences in config files. Many advanced users know that the about:config parameters displays many of those preferences directly in the web browser, offering options to edit parameters and settings directly while Firefox is running. Most basic preferences, like changing the homepage, switching scripting languages on or [...]

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Firefox analyzes the text that has been entered by the user in the Firefox address bar when the user sends it to the browser. Depending on the configuration of Firefox one out of two possible actions are performed. The default way of handling text that is not an url is to send it to Google’s [...]

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Firefox 3 introduced a new coloring scheme and design for secure websites. You might remember that Firefox 2 displayed a yellow url bar when the user was accessing a https site. This changed drastically in Firefox 3 which is now displaying blue, yellow and green colors in the favicon area on the left side of [...]

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Many Firefox settings can only be changed in the about:config dialog that appears when you type the phrase in the Firefox address bar. The settings in there however have rather cryptic names and it can sometimes be quite hard to figure out what they do, actually not that hard because every setting is explained on the Mozilla website. Still, it takes some time to look them up.

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I’m still using Firefox and I thought it would be nice to share some advanced configuration tips that helped me a lot with you. This article was inspired by Lifehackers Top Firefox 2 config tweaks but adds advanced tips to the mix. Rest assured that the configuration tweaks will not list the same tips that you see on every other site nowadays, I promise new unseen tips.

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