Firefox East
Here will be the Firefox Extensions and About:Config configurations that I use to maximize my internet use
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GET FIREFOX HERE
www.getfirefox.com
Nightly Tester Tools
force compatibility for your extensions. this should be the FIRST extension added
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543
My Firefox Security
these extensions protect me while surfing the web,reading and/or sending e-mail. Firefox scans downloads as they are being downloaded for any virus
Firefox Security Extensions I use
Dr . Web anti-virus link checker ::This plugin allows you to check any file you are about to download, any page you are about to visit with online version of Dr.Web anti-virus! New menu item "Scan with Dr.Web" will appear on hyperlink context menu. addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/938 Interclue
Ever wanted to know what was behind the link before you clicked? Interclue tells you everything you need to know before you open yet another tab. addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4999 Firekeeper
detect and block malicious sites::an Intrusion Detection and Prevention System integrated within Firefox. Its main goal is to detect and inform the user about malicious sites that are trying to use some known browsers vulnerabilities to get control over the user's machine or to do some other suspicious action. firekeeper.mozdev.org/installation.html LocalRodeo Client-side protection against JavaScript Malware databasement.net/labs/localrodeo
Finjan
Vital Security- SecureBrowsing Detects malicious content based on code analysis, rather than using signatures like anti-virus products.
securebrowsing.finjan.com/ watch the video
www.youtube.com/watch
MEDIA PLUGINS
after download,be sure to click each downloads update link,Java,you can refuse the Yahoo Toolbar download that's included
Shockwave,refuse the Norton Toolbar download,Real Player,Windows Media Player,Flash,Quicktime & Itunes watch for :: download,newsletters,"other"& Apple updates
uncheck each of these
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:7 UnPlug is an extension which lets you save video and audio which is embedded on a webpage - it's a video download tool. addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2254
Link Evaluator
link checking software,check for dead end links evaluator.oclc.org/
Image Zoom
Adds zoom functionality for images.Easily zoom in, zoom out, fit image to screen addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/139 www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cjjwoQVLF www.youtube.com/watch
C.O.L.T.
Colt makes it easy to copy either a hyperlink's text or both the link and the link's text (in a format you specify). Two handy context-menu items make this possible, and don't add clutter; the items are only visible when right-clicking a link!
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/26541/colt-2.4.0-fx.xpi www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cjjwDiVLY www.youtube.com/watch
Forecastfox ™
Get local,national & international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/398
www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cjjwDUVL0
www.youtube.com/watch
Google Previews
add page preview to Yahoo and Google searches
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/189 www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cjjwD0VL3 www.youtube.com/watch
Wired Marker
is a permanent (indelible) highlighter that you use on Web pages. The highlighter, which comes in various colors and styles, is a kind of electronic bookmark that serves as a guide when you revisit a Web page. The highlighted content is automatically recorded in a scrapbook and saved. www.wired-marker.org/en/
www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cjjwDbVLr
www.youtube.com/watch
Paste E-Mail
set up passwords,usernames for pasting into login boxes addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1063
www.youtube.com/watch
COOLIRIS
link page previewer www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cjjw22VLb
COOLIRIS & PICLENS -
www.youtube.com/watch
COOLIRIS AND SEARCH -
www.youtube.com/watch
COOLIRIS & E-MAIL -
www.youtube.com/watch
COOLIRIS & YAHOO ANSWERS ! -
www.youtube.com/watch
www.youtube.com/watchCOOLIRIS NAVBAR -
No Squint
remembers the zoom level per site.
addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/2592
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Firefox West
here will be Firefox extension websites that I hope you will look over and see what these extension makers have to offer you
Firefox Settings Pages
FIREFOX MAIN OPTIONS -
www.youtube.com/watch FIREFOX ADVANCED OPTIONS -
www.youtube.com/watch FIREFOX SECURITY OPTIONS - www.youtube.com/watch
FIREFOX PRIVACY OPTIONS -
www.youtube.com/watch
FIREFOX TABS OPTIONS -
www.youtube.com/watch
FIREFOX CONTENT -
www.youtube.com/watch
My About:Config
ABOUT:CONFIG
To block pop-ups from plugins, open your Firefox browser, type about:config in the address field. Right-click in the resulting config page somewhere and select New -> Interger. Type privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins in the resulting dialog, hit OK, type 2 in the next dialog and you're all set.
This pref can actually take three values:
* 0: open allowed
* 1: the opened windows are treated as popups, but they're allowed to open (we limit the number of these types of popups)
* 2: the window is a popup, block it
3. Tell Firefox 3 to have Gmail handle mailto: links
Gmail, surprisingly, doesn't show up in the Firefox list of mailto: handlers. But you can add it. Just follow these steps:
1. In the address bar, type about:config and press Enter. Ignore the warranty warning.
2. In the filter box, type gecko.handlerservice.
3. From the entries that appear, double-click gecko.handlerServiceAllowRegisterFromDifferentHost. This will change its value from false to true.
4. In the address bar, copy this code, exactly as you see it, then press Enter:
javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto",
"https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s","GMail")
Firefox 3
Add Gmail to the link list.
Click to view larger image.
5. Below the address bar, you'll get a message asking if you want to add Gmail as the application for mailto: links. Click the Add Application button.
6. Next time you click a mailto: link, a screen will appear that lets you choose an appropriate application. Select Gmail, check the box next to "Remember my choice for mailto: links," then click OK.
From now on, Gmail will handle the links. As with Yahoo Mail, if you're not currently logged in, you'll first have to type in your e-mail and password, and then Gmail will create the e-mail.
Visualize blue https sites in Firefox 3 in a better way
Firefox 3 introduced a new coloring scheme and design for secure websites. You might remember that Firefox 2 displayed a yellow url bar when the user was accessing a https site. This changed drastically in Firefox 3 which is now displaying blue, yellow and green colors in the favicon area on the left side of the url.
To give you a practical example: If you visit https://www.paypal.com/ you notice a large green bar in the favicon area that is displaying the name of the owner of the website. A visit of https://www.amazon.com/ on the other hand is displaying a smaller blue bar around the favicon. Both are secure websites but one is dominant while the other is barely visible.
This can be changed in Firefox 3 so that the url of the website is displayed in the favicon are as well. To do that type in about:config in the Firefox 3 location bar and filter for the term browser.identity.ssl_domain_display
You can change that term to the following values:
* 0 - the default value.
* 1 - the top level domain is also painted in blue. e.g. ghacks.net
* 2 - all of the domain is painted in blue, e.g. www.ghacks.net
Firefox Slow Page Load - Solved
A co-worker showed me an interesting problem with Firefox today.
He loaded a page from our application (running on localhost) and the page content loaded instantly, but the page load itself didn’t end until a time out 20 seconds later.
Literally.Everything we saw a measured from the browser or from the sending application showed that the content was sent in milliseconds, and the page load was just sitting there doing nothing. \
We were even using the latest Firefox beta.
Other browsers had no such problem.
Turns out, we figured out what was going on using the Tamper Data add-on.
Turns out there was a Connection:
keep-alive in the header.
When we changed it from keep-alive to close,
the browser behaved as expected.
That is, it loaded the page instantly.
A little web investigation showed that when you use the keep-alive attribute
you must also use Content-Length: header,
which the sending application wasn’t doing.
A quick application tweak to send the content length, and everything ran super spiffy.
Now, if you don’t have access to the application that’s sending you web pages,
you can twiddle with the about:config and change the
network.http.keep-alive setting to false.
about:config adaptations to make Firefox faster
To configure the firefox browser:
3. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
(you can find these quickly by typing "network.http" in the filter field)
* network.http.pipelining
* network.http.proxy.pipelining
* network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
4. Alter the entries as follows:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 20. This means it will make 20 requests at once (8 should however be adequate to provide a significant boost).
Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
AWSOME BAR FIX
With Firefox 3's Download Day upon us, a lot of folks are getting their first peek at the newest version of the popular browser. One of the first things you'll notice is the "Awesome Bar," a new feature that drops down a list of sites from your history and bookmarks as you type. For example, you could type "d," and your bookmark for Download Squad would pop up, along with downforeveryoneorjustme.com, if you've recently visited it.
For some people, this is going to be handy, but others are going to hate it. We have mixed opinions about the Awesome Bar here at Download Squad, so we're going to show you how to turn it off. First, go to your Firefox settings by putting "about:config" into the location bar. Click past the warning message, and scroll down to browser.urlbar.maxRichResults. This sets how many recommendations the Awesome Bar will display -- it's 12 by default, but you want to change it to 0. Now your location bar should act more the one you're used to from Firefox 2. It'll still autocomplete addresses of sites you've been to, but the behavior that's been annoying some people so much will be gone. Alternately, an extension called Oldbar will give you back Firefox 2's dropdown behavior.
Start rendering pages faster
Creating an nglayout.initialpaint.delay integer preference lets you control how long Firefox waits before starting to render a page. If this value isn't set, Firefox defaults to 250 milliseconds, or 0.25 of a second. Some people report that setting it to 0 --
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