Improve the speed of Firefox 3

We all know Firefox is a memory hog. To speed things up greatly, do the following:

• Open Firefox and in the address bar type about:config.
• Click on “I’ll be careful, I promise“
• Use the search bar above to look for network.http.pipelining and double click on it to set it’s value to True.
• Create a new boolean value named network.http.pipelining.firstrequest and set that to True, as well.
• Find network.http.pipelining.maxrequests, double click on it, and change its value to 8.
• Look for network.http.proxy.pipelining and set it to True.
• Create two new integers named nglayout.initialpaint.delay andcontent.notify.interval, set them to 0.
• Restart your browser.

All done. You should feel the browser is 5x more responsive than before while navigating websites.

MooLux Modules

You can add the modules into moolux.
Download this modules:

1. firefox-3.5.3
Firefox is A web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite, the second-most popular browser in current use worldwide after Internet Explorer. Firefox includes tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, and an integrated search system that uses the user's desired search engine.

2. Flash-player-plugin-10.0.32.18
flash player plugin for mozilla firefox.

3. pidgin-2.6.6
Pidgin, previously known as Gaim, is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. Pidgin messenger is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, SILC, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.

4. thunderbird-2.0.0.23
Google Chrome is a web browser released by Google which uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on 2 September 2008, and the public stable release was on 11 December 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or "chrome", of web browsers. In September 2009, Chrome was the fourth most widely used browser, with 2.84% of worldwide usage share of web browsers.[1] Development versions of Chrome for Linux and Mac OS X were released in June 2009.

How to add to your MooLux:

• Download the modules.
• navigate to your USB with contain moolux linux
• Copy the modules to the "/MooLux/base" directory
• and reboot your moolux

Mockups for Firefox 4.0

How would you like the next version of Mozilla Firefox UI to look ? Would you like it to have a spartan look and feel similar to Google Chrome ? Or should it be an amalgamation of all the good UI ideas found in different browsers like Opera, Internet Explorer 8.0, Safari and Google Chrome ?

Mozilla Firefox has initiated a discussion on how the UI of Firefox 4.0 should be designed. It has put together a couple of ideas as mockups.

These mockups have not been finalized but are shared with the public to initiate a discussion and for brainstorming. Should Firefox 4.0 have tabs on top of address bar or on bottom of address bar like in Google Chrome? Should it have a combo stop/refresh/go button ?

Check out the mockups of Firefox 4.0 and also the feedback received.

Thunderbird to open links in Firefox

If you use Mozilla Thunderbird with KDE you already know that by default Thunderbird open hyperlinks in konqueror. If konqueror your main browser - this post is not for you Below you can find way how-to force Thunderbird to open hyperlinks in Firefox.

First thing that we need to do is create shell script:
#!/bin/bash
url="$1"
exec /path/to/firefox "$url"


Save that script to Thunderbird default folder. In my case: ~/.mozilla-thunderbird
Now, make that script executable.

Please close Thunderbird and open file prefs.js in your favorite text editor. You can find that file inside Thunderbird profile directory. For example:

~/.mozilla-thunderbird/XXXXXX.default/prefs.js


Now you need add following strings to the end of prefs.js

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "~/.mozilla-thunderbird/openlink.sh");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "~/.mozilla-thunderbird/openlink.sh");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "~/.mozilla-thunderbird/openlink.sh");


Where openlink.sh file shell script that we saved before.

Now just start Thunderbird and click to any link. It should always open it in Firefox.

I don’t know why Thunderbird didn’t use system default browser either i dont know why there is no settings about broswer in Thunderbird Preferences. I hope this will be fixed sometime, because way above is not clear and not portable.  Usually same methods called “hack”