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Make Firefox 4x Faster.

At one time Opera was the fastest available web browser, that time has ended. By default firefox has its turbo features shut off due to an error it used to display with tables. Use the tutorial below to add 200shots of nos to firefox, and increase page speeds up to 4 times, making firefox the fastest browser. 1) Open Firefox and on the address bar write about:config and hit enter [find the string] [b]network.http.pipelining[/b] double click and change the value to true [find the string] [b]ne

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Run Internet Explorer From Command Prompt

Here's a simple way you can run Internet Explorer from the command line... Create a new text file that contains the following line: [code]@start "" /b "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" %*[/code] Rename the file [b]e.bat[/b] Copy this file to your profile folder [quote]C:\Documents and Settings\your_account_name[/quote] Now you can open a command prompt window and type the following [code]e www.trap17.com[/code] This will

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How To Make Firefox Faster If You Have A Broadband

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 "networ

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Faster Page Loading...

This will make your pages load even faster. 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: (by double clicking them) Set "network.http

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Speed up firefox

This made firefox run about 4 times quicker on my ISDN connection. 1. Type "about:config" in the adress field. 2. Set the value of network.http.pipelining to "true". 3. Set the value of network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to "100". 4. Set the value of network.http.proxy.pipelining to "true" 5. Set the value of nglayout.initialpaint.delay to "0" Taken from [url="http://www.computerbb.org/about150.html"]http://www.computerbb.org/about150.html[/url]

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6 Cool & Useful Google Chrome Tricks

I use Google Chrome a lot on a daily basis and its been a hell of a browser. Its fast, skins are nice and but here are a few tweeks and tips for a better experience. Here are six such tricks. [quote][b][b]1. Detach a Tab To a New Window[/b][/b] Firefox 3.5 now has it but it was Google Chrome which introduced it. You can easily click and drag a tab outside of the main browser window to a new window. [b][b]2. Drag Downloads To Desktop / Folder[/b][/b] Another cool feature similar to the t

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15 Of The Best Firefox Tricks Ever

While searching some stufff about using two different browsers I came upon this little site that last some of the best firefox tricks ever (including the pipeline trick) they even got tricks for lowering ram usage from firefox which is hte best thing ever, because I soak up a lot of RAM from FF with all the extensions I have. They even got tricks I don't think most people here on the forums know about either. For the ones I have tested so far they seem to still work on firefox 2.0.0.4 whic

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Make Mozilla Firefox 2 Look Like Internet Explorer 7

If you're lured away from Firefox because it lacks IE7's new looks then you can make Firefox look like Windows Internet Explorer 7. To do this all you need to do is to install the following extensions and themes:[list] [*][url="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4129/"]myFirefox[/url] theme [*][url="http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/firefox%5Finternet%5Fexplorer/firesomething-1.7.0-fx-hackedfor2.0.xpi"]Firesomething 1.7[/url] extension, hacked for Firefox 2 by [url="http://johnhaller.com

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No Browser Installed

Open up a notepad or calculator. Click on Help>Help Topics There will be another window opened. Right click on the above left icon and click on "Jump to URL..." Type in any sites that u wished to view/surf. Please include "http://" without the quotes. Enjoy surfing!

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Crossbrowser Sites

Did you ever have a problem where all the browsers view your site differently and it is completely necessary that every little detail is shown correctly? Well here's the most basic but useful trick. First off, make sure you have a DOCTYPE. A doctype forces browsers (especially IE) to use the Standards Mode and will a lot of things your site might be having. IE is horrible with Quirks Mode, which is when you don't have a doctype on your site and so it doesn't use the standards of xh

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Speed Up Newest Versions Of Mozilla Firefox

I`m going to copy kashvet turoial how to speed up mozilla firefox, so kashvet writes: [quote][i]The firefox browser has its own default settings which need to be edited to do this...Once done your browsing speed should increase by 300 to 500% well to access this feature type 'about:config' in the address slot (doesnt matter if you are offline)...... in the menu you get go to network.http.pipelining by default its value is set to false, double click it to get it to say true by enab

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Opera Trick

If you accidentally close a tab in opera just click on the trash can in the upper right corner and you can recover the recently closed tabs. Also you can undo the closing of a tab from Edit.

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Firefox "about" Pages

Firefox always had a number of fun "about" pages. Here is a list: about:about Lists all the about pages about:mozilla Quote from the Book of Mozilla (my favourite); differs by the version your using about:robots A fun robot page and many more!

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Small Screen

press shift+f11 in opera to enable small screen mode, useful when you just want to do some reading without having to scroll through images. i don't know why other browsers don't support zoom in/out feature. this feature alone is enough for me to use opera instead of firefox.

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Forcing Firefox To Free Memory

Firefox 3.0 introduces a range of optimizations. But its memory consumption remains high, which can disrupt the operation of other applications if you tend to open several programs simultaneously. Here is a trick that forces Firefox to release its memory whenever it is reduced in the taskbar. When reduced in the Firefox taskbar to return to work on other applications, it is no longer a vital need to occupy as much memory and it displays virtually nothing. A setting frees as much RAM as possible

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Make Older Add-ons Work With Firefox 3.0

I found this trick today, and there is a big warning because of what it will do and that it my crash your browser. I haven't tried this hack out yet, but I let someone else be my guinea pig for that [quote]I can't repeat this enough. DO NOT TRY THIS unless you are comfortable editing the advanced preferences of your browser. And don't do anything until you've read through this entire post. Don't say I didn't warn you. In my experience, extensions that worked with Fire

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Cool Google Chrome Tips And Tweaks And Easter Eggs

For your Chrome fans out there here is some tricks, tweaks and easter eggs found so far in Google Chrome and I have to say the about: one's are very interesting. SOURCE [url="http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007675.html"]http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007675.html[/url] [url="http://lifehacker.com/5045164/google-chromes-full-list-of-special-about-pages"]http://lifehacker.com/5045164/google-chrom...ial-about-pages[/url]

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Firefox Quick Search

Hey all! I want to discuss with you somthing I find useful on Firefox. Its the quick search at the top of the bar. If you have google as your search provider, just type in somthing in the bar eg "Youtube" and Mozilla automatically does a "Im Feeling Lucky" search to go straight to YouTube, its quick fast and effictive! Have a go.

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How To Reset Internet Explorer 7.0 Settings (ries)

[b]How to Reset Internet Explorer 7.0 Settings (RIES)[/b] If you experience problems with Internet Explorer 7.0 and you want to back Internet Explorer 7.0 to its first-run state, you can use the RIES to reset Internet Explorer 7.0 Settings. To do this follow below steps: Click on Tools menu, select Internet Options, click on Advanced tab, and finally click on Reset button to Reset Internet Explorer Settings [i]This feature resets bellow setting to their "first-run" states:[/i] searc

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View Saved Passwords

With Firefox, your saved logins and passwords for quick access to protected services like messaging, forums, etc.. can be accessed and seen if you do not remember a password and you want to find it. Let's see how it works : 1.In order to access the list of saved passwords, click the Tools menu and click Options. 2.Open the Security tab. 3.Click on the button on the Saved Passwords button. 4.The registered identifiers are displayed. Click Show Passwords to see the corresponding passwords. 5.C

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Make Firefox From 4-40 Times Faster!

ok, here are the steps to make your firefox browser go up to 40 times faster! firstly, in your address bar, type in [b]about:config[/b] once it opens, it should be something not too dissimilar to this... [img]http://www.ubuntugeek.com/images/firefox/1.png[/img] browse to the entry [b]network.http.pipelining[/b] double-click on it next, browse to [b]network.http.pipelining.maxrequests[/b] double-click on it change the integer to 100 double click on the value [b]network.http.proxy.pipe

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Even More! Firefox Tricks For Your Firefox Needs

You could say that this [url="http://www.trap17.com/forums/fixing-firefoxs-large-use-memory-t50409.html"]topic [/url] was a reason why this topic is here. So I did some web surfing and found this [url="http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox-2/geek-to-live-top-firefox-2-config-tweaks-209941.php"]awesome website[/url] that really gets some good customization to your Firefox browser. Just a small note that you will be working mostly in the about:config page so just open a new tab and of course op

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Securing Firefox And Your Www Experience.

Hello everybody, I'm new . This thread would like to be a tutorial, but before making it into one I'd like to discuss it with more people. I'm a kind of paranoid person, I hate advertisement and website that run lots of javascript and whats not on my computer so I usually install in my firefox [i]adblockplus[/i], [i]noscripts[/i], [i]flashblock[/i]. [i]Adblockplus[/i] uses a remote list of ads providers that you have to subscribe when you install it ( I usually choose a French lis

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