Difference between revisions of "Firefox"

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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
network.dns.disableIPv6.	true
network.http.pipelining.	true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests.	8
network.http.proxy.pipelining.	true

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 * [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Firefox Firefox] category at [http://www.mozillazine.org/ MozillaZine] [http://kb.mozillazine.org/ KnowledgeBase wiki]
 ==Shortcomings==
-* (v1.5.0.8) 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.
+* (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==