Useful firefox settings

The default settings are in bold.

  • media.autoplay.enabled (true|false)
  • image.animation_mode (normal|once|none)
  • security.enable_java (true|false)
  • browser.sessionstore.interval (10000 in msecs, equivalent to 10secs)
  • gfx.color_management.enabled (true|false)
  • browser.tabs.closeButtons 1 ( 0 – on the active tab only, 1- all tabs, 2- no close button, 3- at the end of the tab strip)
  • dom.max_script_run_time (10 sec)
  • layout.spellcheckDefault (0 – disable the spell checker, 1 – spell checker for multi-lines text boxes only, 2 – enable the spell checker for all text boxes)
  • network.http.pipelining (true|false)
  • network.http.proxy.pipelining (true|false)
  • network.http.pipelining.maxrequests (4, 4-8)
  • network.http.max-connections (30)
  • network.http.max-connections-per-server (15)
  • extensions.checkCompatibility ( New -> Boolean)
  • security.dialog_enable_delay (2000 in msec, 0 – start installation immediately)
  • nglayout.initialpaint.delay (New -> Integer)
  • browser.blink_allowed (true|false)
  • middlemouse.paste (true|false)
  • ui.submenuDelay (New -> Integer)
  • network.prefetch-next (true|false)
  • browser. cache.check_doc_frequency (0 – check once per browser session, 1 – Check every time I view the page, 2 – Never check (always use cached page), 3 – Check when the page is out of date)

Documentation



getElementsByClassName

getElementsByClassName is defined in HTML5. From WhatWG:

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Firefox and places.sqlite tricks

Sometimes you need to remotely get your bookmarks, history or check the top-10 sites, etc. Here's some neat tricks to get the info from the Firefox Places file called places.sqlite, which is an SQLite database with the following tables (see also the picture):
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Firefox 3.0 and Solaris

Just a brain dump.



Firefox and profiles

In order to run several Firefox-es with individual profiles simultaneously, the browser should be started with –no-remote option:

firefox -P prof-01  --no-remote&
firefox -P prof-02  --no-remote&

… etc

where prof-01, prof-02 are profile names



Firefox Add-On's

Adblock Plus
Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper
Tree Style Tab
FireFTP
Web Developer

Tab Mix Plus
Switchproxy Tool
FoxClocks
Chatzilla
FasterFox
708090-lite