Firefox
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computing: software: web browsers: Firefox
Overview
Firefox is a free, open-source web browser.
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Reference
- official home page
- Wikipedia
- Firefox category at MozillaZine KnowledgeBase wiki
Shortcomings
- (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.
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 |