Difference between revisions of "Firefox"

Revision as of 23:59, 21 October 2006

navbar

computing: software: web browsers: Firefox

Overview

Firefox is a free, open-source web browser.

This page is a seed article. You can help HTYP water it: make a request to expand a given page and/or donate to help give us more writing-hours!

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

@@ Line 7: / Line 7: @@
 * {{wikipedia|Mozilla Firefox}}
 ==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:
 {{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
@@ Line 16: / Line 17: @@
 [[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
+|}