Firefox Tips and Tricks

To make your firefox load pages faster

At the address part, type: "about:config" *without quotes of course*
then at filter type in pipe

the following below should appear
"network.http.pipelining"
"network.http.proxy.pipelining"
"network.http.pipelining.maxrequests"

right click and click toogle to set
"network.http.pipelining" to "true" and
"network.http.proxy.pipelining"; to "true"

then right click and click modify to set
"network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 50.

Now right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer.
type "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set value to "0".


Open search result in new tab instead of replacing the existing tab

1. In firefox, type about:config in the URL box
2. In the filter box, paste this text:

browser.search.openintab

3. Change the value to true

Open any pop up window in a new tab

1. In firefox, type about:config in the URL box
2. In the filter box, paste this text:

browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction

3. Values: ... i set to 1 for my case

0 - Divert all new windows to current tab/window or new tab
1 - Don't divert any windows spawned by JS
2 -(Default) Don't divert JS windows that include size/placement/toolbar info

the above 2 problem can be slove my installing tab mix plus also .. but for my case i dont want to install additinal add-on .. to prevent slowing down ff

Stop PDF files from opening in Firefox, sometimes ff crash when u accidentaly click on a link for a very big pdf file

1. Go to the "Tools -> Options" menu
2. Select the "Downloads" tab
3. Open "View and Edit Actions..."
4. Enter "pdf" in the "Search" box
5. Select "Change Action..."
6. Change the selection from "Use this Plugin" to "Open them with the default application", which should point to Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, or your favorite PDF viewer.