about:config
Have Firefox always open links in the current tab
We’ve all experience this: you are happily doing your daily web surfing, clicking links here and there until you hit that one website. This annoying website has their web links all configured to open in a new browser window! Perhaps, now that every browser supports tab-based browsing, if the link opened in a new tab [...]
Purge that history to speed up Firefox
Firefox is generally regarded as a fast and efficient browser; mind you not the fastest or the most efficient, but more than acceptable by the masses. However there are a few times throughout a session that seems to cause the browser to stutter and stall. One situation centers around the Awesome Bar – the address [...]
Disable and Remove Favicons in Firefox Bookmarks
Favicons are those itsy-bitsy icons that appear in your browser’s URL or address bar, browser tab, and bookmarks list. The premise for the icons is to be used to quickly identify or distinguish websites from one another, visually. The idea sounds solid but in my experience it’s rarely as pleasant and painless. Typically, in Firefox [...]
Changing the Mouse Click Behavior in Firefox’s Address Bar
Everyone is a usability expert it seems. It seems more and more that as software matures, layouts and organization of tools and components are switched around just for the sake of change. Sure the developers state it’s after hours of research and usability testing that leads to the switcher-roo but I’m not sure I buy [...]
Tweak Firefox’s Session Store Frequency
I’m a huge Firefox fan just as most computer enthusiasts are and the current release of Firefox, Firefox 3.0, is unquestionably their best release ever. Just one of the game changing features that Firefox offers by default is the saving of active session. Basically at defined intervals Firefox will take a pseudo snapshot of your [...]
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