gHacks technology news » firefox tweak http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:26:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Increase Responsiveness of Firefox http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/22/increase-responsiveness-of-firefox/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/22/increase-responsiveness-of-firefox/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:50:17 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/22/increase-responsiveness-of-firefox/ I was experiencing some difficulties in Firefox for the last two months. Firefox was unresponsive when it was loading websites which was hard to tolerate and almost made me switch completely to Opera. I could not relate this unresponsiveness to changes that I made to Firefox – be it config changes or add-ons that I installed or uninstalled during that time.

Today I found the solution mentioned at the How To Geek’s blog. He mentioned a setting in about:config that was specifying the time between the high and load frequency interrupt mode. Firefox changes modes depending on a user’s activity on a website. High Interrupt Mode interrupts the website parser more frequently for better responsiveness of Firefox while Low Frequency Mode loads the website faster but is unresponsive.

Type about:config in the address bar of Firefox and filter for the string Content.switch.threshold. If the key does not exist create a New > Integer with the name Content.switch.threshold and the value 1000000. The default value for the key is 750000 which caused the problem in first place.

The related keys content.notify.ontimer and content.interrupt.parsing must be set to TRUE, the preference would not have an effect otherwise. The value 1000000 sets the threshold value to 1 second which makes Firefox more responsive but increases load time slightly.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/22/increase-responsiveness-of-firefox/feed/ 3 Firefox Tweak Guide http://www.ghacks.net/2005/12/13/firefox-tweak-guide/ http://www.ghacks.net/2005/12/13/firefox-tweak-guide/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:39:20 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=218 If you are new to firefox and have been using internet explorer or opera before you might find some of the concepts of firefox confusing at first glance. The Firefox Tweak Guide explains most firefox options in detail and is a great asset for every new (and probably even some older) firefox users.

It begins by explaining profiles, general appearance of items in firefox, followed by an in depth explanation of firefox options. After that the editor compiled a list of firefox extensions that he uses (extensions are addons for firefox that increase functionality).

The final part explains advanced configuration elements like about:config and explains some of the options you can change to make firefox even faster.

Everything is explained in word and with screenshots making this an ideal guide for the visual type of reader. I´am using most of the authors suggestions and I encourage you to take a look as well and change firefox the way you want it to be.

Great guide for every firefox user.

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