Hyperfox!

[Mannginger]

I've just found this little gem for Firefox:

https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=327&vid=989

Set the settings as such:

www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts

Techinal type chap said:

How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity) Posted on 12/12/2004 12:45:50 PM PST by KoRn Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up: 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 really 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 recieves.

I've just done it and Firefox flies now! You all probably know it anyway, but just in case...

Phil

edited for format

>> Edited by Mannginger on Friday 6th May 07:35

[Fer]

Thanks for the tip. Whilst we are on the subject, can anyone help with a newbie query?

On IE you could type the name of your bookmark in the address line, and it would jump to the page. Is there any method of doing that in Firefox? That is my only niggle with it.

TIA,
Chris

[chrisjl]

Yes. If you right-click -> Properties on a bookmark, there is a 'keyword' field you can fill in which will then get you the behaviour you want.

Better than that though is the quick search feature (I think it installs some by default).
e.g. I can type the following into the address bar:

quot xrtx (gets me a stockmarket quote)
google liar (gets me Tony B.'s biography)
multimap oulton park (you can work that one out yourself )

[Fer]

Thanks for that. Another reason to ditch IE now I have that working. And thanks for the other quick tip, been trying out things like "imdb pretty woman"(*).

(* - but not for that film.)

[chrisjl]

Fer said:

And thanks for the other quick tip, been trying out things like "imdb pretty woman"

I hadn't noticed there was an IMDB one, and I can't actually find it anywhere. But it does work.

[Fer]

It sure does, I just went to the "Add Engines" and selected IMDB. Very useful.

(Also just found out that the wheel click on my mouse opens the link in a new tab! )

[BaconBonce]

Another tip is to stick -turbo on the end of the Firefox shortcut to make it load quicker

[TUS 373]

Hijack:

How do you take out engines from the list? Somehow, I have managed to duplicate a couple of them so would like to be able to edit the list if possible?

Hijack over.

[zumbruk]

Have a rummage in;

C:Program FilesMozilla Firefoxsearchplugins