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* {{wikipedia|Mozilla Firefox}} | * {{wikipedia|Mozilla Firefox}} | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
+ | ===when things get munged=== | ||
From Tene's comments after he solved a problem we were having where Firefox was displaying all fonts (in menus as well as web pages) as blanks or underlines: | From Tene's comments after he solved a problem we were having where Firefox was displaying all fonts (in menus as well as web pages) as blanks or underlines: | ||
{{quoteon}}The problem was FireFox using [[wikipedia:Pango|Pango]] and there being an issue with the version of pango and FF, or something like that ... I think it's a remnant of the weird stuff atrpms did ... like, they just shut down, because new FC had all that stuff in it ... so they left a lot of stuff with unresolved deps, etc. ... so I edited /usr/bin/firefox (which is a wrapper that sets env vars and calls firefox-bin in some lib directory) and uncommented the DISABLE_PANGO lines | {{quoteon}}The problem was FireFox using [[wikipedia:Pango|Pango]] and there being an issue with the version of pango and FF, or something like that ... I think it's a remnant of the weird stuff atrpms did ... like, they just shut down, because new FC had all that stuff in it ... so they left a lot of stuff with unresolved deps, etc. ... so I edited /usr/bin/firefox (which is a wrapper that sets env vars and calls firefox-bin in some lib directory) and uncommented the DISABLE_PANGO lines | ||
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[[The Hypertwins]] highly recommend using a session saver, especially if you use the browser for a lot of online editing ([[wiki]]s, [[blog]]s, etc.) TabMixPlus and SessionSaver .2 both seem to work well. | [[The Hypertwins]] highly recommend using a session saver, especially if you use the browser for a lot of online editing ([[wiki]]s, [[blog]]s, etc.) TabMixPlus and SessionSaver .2 both seem to work well. | ||
+ | ===optimization=== | ||
+ | [http://christer.homeip.net/index.php/2006/10/20/how-to-speed-up-firefox-or-flock-ubuntu-606-610/ This site] recommends making the following changes in '''about:config''': | ||
+ | {| | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | ! setting || change to | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | network.dns.disableIPv6. || true | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | network.http.pipelining. || true | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. || 8 | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | network.http.proxy.pipelining. || true | ||
+ | |} |
Revision as of 23:59, 21 October 2006
computing: software: web browsers: Firefox
Overview
Firefox is a free, open-source web browser.
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Reference
Notes
when things get munged
From Tene's comments after he solved a problem we were having where Firefox was displaying all fonts (in menus as well as web pages) as blanks or underlines:
The problem was FireFox using Pango and there being an issue with the version of pango and FF, or something like that ... I think it's a remnant of the weird stuff atrpms did ... like, they just shut down, because new FC had all that stuff in it ... so they left a lot of stuff with unresolved deps, etc. ... so I edited /usr/bin/firefox (which is a wrapper that sets env vars and calls firefox-bin in some lib directory) and uncommented the DISABLE_PANGO lines |
When a session gets munged, you can fix it by backing up the user profile data and deleting all the profiles (perhaps uninstalling/reinstalling Firefox if needed), then restoring selected bits of session data as needed:
- bookmarks.html contains all the user bookmarks
- session.rdf contains TabMixPlus session data
The Hypertwins highly recommend using a session saver, especially if you use the browser for a lot of online editing (wikis, blogs, etc.) TabMixPlus and SessionSaver .2 both seem to work well.
optimization
This site recommends making the following changes in about:config:
setting | change to |
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network.dns.disableIPv6. | true |
network.http.pipelining. | true |
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. | 8 |
network.http.proxy.pipelining. | true |