{"id":1000,"date":"2011-05-14T23:23:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T06:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2011-07-14T09:11:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T16:11:10","slug":"mozilla-firefox-tips-and-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/web-tips-and-tricks\/mozilla-firefox-tips-and-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Firefox Tips and Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Some helpful Firefox tips and tricks to speed up your browsing experience when using Firefox.<br \/>\n <span style=\"color:#cc0000\">There&#8217;s also some super advanced \/ geeky settings for those who are interested and brave enough.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>Warning: <\/strong>these tricks may cause you to become a super user (ok, super geek)  Just be patient, it takes just a little time. (but well worth it) <\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27150%27%20height%3D%27148%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20150%20148%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27150%27%20height%3D%27148%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/firefox-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Mozilla Firefox Logo\" title=\"Mozilla Firefox Logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"148\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-full wp-image-1017\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Keyboard shortcuts for Firefox:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Alt-Home (home page)<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl-W (close tab)<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl+L (address bar)<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl+R (reload page)<\/li>\n<li>Spacebar  (page down)<\/li>\n<li>Shift-Spacebar  (page up)<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl+F  (find specific word(s) on current webpage &#8211; My personal fav!)<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl+G (find same specific word(s) *again* on current webpage &#8211; My 2nd personal fav!)<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl+D (bookmark page)<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl+T (new tab)<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl+Shift+T (Reopen a closed tab )<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward within your tabs)<\/li>\n<li> Ctrl+Shft+Tab (go to previous tab)<\/li>\n<li>  Ctrl+1-9 (choose number to go to specific tab)<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl+N (new window)<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl+K (search box)<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl+= (increase font size)<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl+- (decrease font size)<\/li>\n<li>F5 (reload)  or right-click > reload<\/li>\n<li>alt+left arrow (back)<\/li>\n<li>alt+right arrow (forward)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><!--more Click to Read More Advanced Firefox Tips and Tricks--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More Advanced Firefox Tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Click Star in the Address bar (bookmark a page)<\/li>\n<li>Double-Click Star in the Address bar (&#8220;tag&#8221; bookmarks with keywords to organize)<\/li>\n<li>Tools > Addons (add over 5000 cool extras to give Firefox even more awesomeness)<\/li>\n<li>Click the &#8220;\/&#8221; key and start typing the word you want to find (for an extra fast &#8220;Find&#8221; Tool)<\/li>\n<li>Tools > Clear Recent History (to clear your browsing history for security reasons &#8212; especially when using a shared  and public computers.   Easier option: Tools > Options > Privacy &#8211; choose &#8220;Always clear my private data when I close Firefox&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Use &#8220;Smart Folders&#8221; in Firefox\u2019s Library, for a killer time-saver:  you can create and save searches into folders that are automatically updated as you add sites to your bookmarks and history.  To open the Library: Click &#8220;Organize Bookmarks&#8221; within the Bookmarks menu > Enter your search terms in the search box > Click the Save button to create a Smart Folder.<\/li>\n<li>Tools > Options > Applications >  select preferred application for each protocol (Open your *preferred* email app when clicking a mailto link on webpages)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>OK, the &uuml;ber geeky stuff for making  Firefox faster.<\/h3>\n<p>Because Firefox&#8217;s default settings are optimized for dialup connections you can tweak out its innards to speed up performance and page loads via &#8220;pipelining&#8221; (helps Firefox multitask)<br \/>\n<strong style=\"color: #cc0000;\"><em>*Note: be VERY careful doing this! <\/em> <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Type &#8220;about:config&#8221; into the address bar and click enter\/return.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27494%27%20height%3D%27190%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20494%20190%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27494%27%20height%3D%27190%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/mozilla-firefox-tips-tricks.jpg\" alt=\"Mozilla Firefox Tips and Tricks image\" title=\"Mozilla Firefox Tips and Tricks\" width=\"494\" height=\"190\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-1015\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note:  you will see a message &#8220;This might void your warranty!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/firefox-void-warrantee.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/firefox-void-warrantee.jpg\" alt=\"Firefox Void Warrantee image\" title=\"Firefox Void Warrantee\" width=\"565\" height=\"149\" border=\"1\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-1021\" style=\"border:1px dashed black;\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27565%27%20height%3D%27149%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20565%20149%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27565%27%20height%3D%27149%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/firefox-void-warrantee-500x131.jpg 500w, https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/firefox-void-warrantee.jpg 565w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click: &#8220;I&#8217;ll be careful, I promise!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Type &#8220;network.http&#8221; (not the quotes)  in the &#8220;Filter&#8221; field<\/p>\n<p>Find \/ change the following : (double-click each to toggle the change):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set &#8220;network.http.pipelining&#8221; to &#8220;true&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Set &#8220;network.http.proxy.pipelining&#8221; to &#8220;true&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Set &#8220;network.http.pipelining.maxrequests&#8221; to  30. This will allow Firefox to generate 30 requests at the same time.<\/li>\n<li>Right-click anywhere in this section and choose New-&gt; Integer. *Carefully* name it &#8220;nglayout.initialpaint.delay&#8221; and set the value to &#8220;0&#8221;. This value is the time the browser will wait before acting on the info it receives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> Free up some RAM when Firefox is minimized.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Type &#8220;about:config&#8221; (no quotes) in the address bar<\/li>\n<li>Right-click anywhere in the window<\/li>\n<li> Choose New-> Boolean <\/li>\n<li>Type: &#8220;config.trim_on_minimize&#8221; (no quotes)<\/li>\n<li>Set to TRUE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Restart Firefox to save these new settings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BAM\u2026 you&#8217;re done!  Enjoy a speedier Web.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t use Mozilla Firefox yet?<\/strong><br \/>\n Do yourself a favor and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.com\">download it<\/a><\/strong>.<br \/>\n(Just downloading it will bring you one step closer to leaving Microsoft Internet EXPLODER, thusly saving you about 30% of the time you spend browsing online)  =)<\/p>\n<p>More questions?  Hit me below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some helpful Firefox tips and tricks to speed up your&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/web-tips-and-tricks\/mozilla-firefox-tips-and-tricks\/\">Continue Reading<span> Mozilla Firefox Tips and Tricks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,70],"tags":[160,161,162,163,171,170,168,169,175,227,172,173,174,167,166,165,164],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firefox","category-web-tips-and-tricks","tag-advanced-browser-tips","tag-advanced-browser-tricks","tag-advanced-firefox-tips","tag-advanced-firefox-tricks","tag-cool-firefox-tips-and-tricks","tag-cool-firefox-tricks","tag-firefox-tips","tag-firefox-tricks","tag-firefox-tweaks","tag-how-to-tweak-firefox","tag-killer-firefox-tips","tag-killer-firefox-tricks","tag-killer-firefox-tweaks","tag-mozilla-firefox-tips-and-tricks","tag-mozilla-tips","tag-mozilla-tips-and-tricks","tag-mozilla-tricks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}