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Fixing Firefox
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Disable and/or delete useless plugins:
Disable: Firefox > Add-ons > Plugins > Disable
Delete: Right-click plugin > Show More > "File" (find and delete)
PROTIP: Disable Flash; enable YouTube HTML5: youtube.com/html5
Restart Firefox in Safe Mode (addons disabled, default theme, default toolbar settings):
Firefox > Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled
Reset Firefox to its default state:
Firefox > Help > Troubleshooting Information > Reset Firefox
Create a new profile:
Run: firefox.exe -p
Terminal: firefox -p
about:pages
- about: Displays your useragent string
- about:about Displays all of the about pages
- about:buildconfig Displays configure args
- about:cache Lists cache entries
- about:compartments Shows JS mem
- about:config Displays a settings interface
- about:crashes Displays all Firefox crashes
- about:healthreport Start up times
- about:home Displays the home page
- about:memory Shows memory
- about:permissions Edit site permissions
- about:support Prints all add-ons
- about:telemetry Performance and usage
- about:mozilla Easter egg
- about:robots Easter egg
Firefox command line (shift+F2)
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Save a PNG image of the entire web page:
screenshot --fullpageSave a PNG image of the visible window only:
screenshotRestart the browser:
restartShow all of the available commands:
helpuserChrome.css or Stylish tweaks (tiny.cc/userchrome)
/* No Firefox Button */
#appmenu-button{display:none !important;}
/* No load progress indicator */
.tab-throbber{display:none !important;}
/* No horizontal scrollbar */
#content browser{margin-right:-14px !important;
overflow-y:scroll; overflow-x:hidden;}
/* No site favicon */
.tab-icon-image{display:none !important;}
/* No "X" button to close tab */
.tab-close-button{display:none !important;}
/* No auto-complete arrow on location bar */
.autocomplete-history-dropmarker{display: none !important;}
/* See
http://logicalincrements.com/firefox/483
for Menu Context removals */
/* To make your own userChrome.css tweaks, find elements using the
DOM Inspector
on "chrome://browser/content/browser.xul" */
Which Firefox should I get? (firefox.com/channel)
If you are still not sure which channel or fork to use, check out Mozilla's infographic:
http://tinyurl.com/firefoxchannels
Customizability
Userscripts for Greasemonkey (userscripts-mirror.org openuserjs or greasyfork)
4chan X Userscripts for Greasemonkey (pick only one)
4chan Userscripts for Greasemonkey
/a/nime Userscripts for Greasemonkey and add-ons
Userstyles for Stylish (userstyles.org) and themes
about:config tweaks (tiny.cc/aboutconfig)
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Turn off the new tab page, and makes it about:blank:
browser.newtab.url => about:blank
Turn off Geolocation:
geo.enabled => false
Turn off file virus-scan after download:
browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone => false
Override the useragent to most common useragent (not needed with Blender/UA Switcher):
New > string:
general.useragent.override =>
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Force installation of non-updated add-ons:
New > boolean:
extensions.checkCompatibility.[version #] => false
Disable prefetching (preloading of pages) and DNS prefetching, which lowers RAM usage:
network.prefetch-next => false
network.dns.disablePrefetch => false
Enable HTTP pipelineing regularly, on SSL pages, and on proxies, respectively:
network.http.pipelining => true
network.http.pipelining.ssl => true
network.http.proxy.pipelining => true
Increase the amount of connections/requests Firefox will make:
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests => 64
network.http.max-connections => 512
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server => 32
Speed up the security delay when installing add-ons:
security.dialog_enable_delay => 500
Disable tab animations:
browser.tabs.animate => false
browser.fullscreen.animateUp => 0
Put cache on RAM:
browser.cache.memory.enable => true
browser.cache.memory.max_entry_size => -1
browser.cache.disk.enable => false
browser.cache.disk.parent_directory => /tmp/firefox
Reduce page loading delay:
New > integer: nglayout.initialpaint.delay => 0
New > boolean: content.interrupt.parsing => true
New > boolean: content.notify.ontimer => true
New > integer: content.max.tokenizing.time => 100000
New > integer: content.notify.backoffcount => -1
New > integer: content.notify.interval => 100000
New > integer: content.switch.threshold => 2000000
Remove submenu slide delay:
New > integer: ui.submenuDelay => 0
Set a "do-not-track" header to tell sites not to track browsing habits:
privacy.donottrackheader.enabled => true
Disable Pocket, Hello and WebRTC
loop.enabled => false
browser.pocket.enable => false
media.navigator.enabled => false
media.peerconnection.enabled => false
Disable Google Blacklists:
browser.safebrowsing.enabled => false
browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled => false
Disable pings:i
browser.send_pings => false
browser.send_pings.require_same_host => true
Disable suggestions on searchbar:
browser.search.suggest.enabled => false
Disable keywords:
keyword.enabled => false
Disable certificates:
browser.ssl_override_behavior => 2
Disable DNS proxy bypass:
network.proxy.socks_remote_dns => true
Disable crash reporting:
In application.ini in the Firefox folder,
[Crash Reporter]Enabled=1 => [Crash Reporter]Enabled=0
For privacy conscious users please check out the following user.js
https://github.com/crisbrm/user.js
https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js
https://jm42.github.io/compare-user.js/
This guide is made to help 4chan users
improve their browsing experience