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[[category:software]][[computing]]: [[software]]: [[web browsers]]: [[Firefox]]
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==Overview==
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[[thing type::web browser]]
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[[category:software]]
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==About==
 
[[Firefox]] is a [[FOSS|free, open-source]] [[web browser]]. {{seed}}
 
[[Firefox]] is a [[FOSS|free, open-source]] [[web browser]]. {{seed}}
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==Reference==
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===variants /alternatives===
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* [http://www.getswiftfox.com Swiftfox]: closely optimized compiles for different CPUs on [[Linux]]
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* [http://palemoon.org Pale Moon] focuses "on efficiency and ease of use."
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* [http://mayaposch.com/wildfox.php WildFox]: a "re-imagining" that returns to Firefox's origins as a lightweight browser (for Windows); compatible with Firefox and Chrome plugins
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===how to===
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* [[/protocols]]
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===pages===
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* [[/archive]]: old or obsolete information
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==Links==
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===Official===
 
* [http://getfirefox.com official home page]
 
* [http://getfirefox.com official home page]
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===Reference===
 
* {{wikipedia|Mozilla Firefox}}
 
* {{wikipedia|Mozilla Firefox}}
 
* [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Firefox Firefox] category at [http://www.mozillazine.org/ MozillaZine] [http://kb.mozillazine.org/ KnowledgeBase wiki]
 
* [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Firefox Firefox] category at [http://www.mozillazine.org/ MozillaZine] [http://kb.mozillazine.org/ KnowledgeBase wiki]
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==Shortcomings==
 
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* (v1.5.0.8 and 2.0) The History view shows only site titles, which makes it very difficult to find a previously-visited page when you can only remember the domain name. The History view should both allow viewing by domain/URL and searching by URL.
 
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==Notes==
 
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===when things get munged===
 
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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:
 
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{{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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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:
 
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* '''bookmarks.html''' contains all the user bookmarks
 
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* '''session.rdf''' contains TabMixPlus session data
 
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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.
 
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===optimization===
 
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[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''':
 
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{|
 
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! setting || change to
 
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| network.dns.disableIPv6. || true
 
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| network.http.pipelining. || true
 
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| network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. || 8
 
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| network.http.proxy.pipelining. || true
 
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About

Firefox is a free, open-source web browser.

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variants /alternatives

  • Swiftfox: closely optimized compiles for different CPUs on Linux
  • Pale Moon focuses "on efficiency and ease of use."
  • WildFox: a "re-imagining" that returns to Firefox's origins as a lightweight browser (for Windows); compatible with Firefox and Chrome plugins

how to

pages

Links

Official

Reference

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