The Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird discussion (Part 3)

[NetRyder]

Hi guys.

I've just started using Firefox instead of Opera and I'm mighty impressed. The one thing that I wish Firefox had that Opera has is the ability to store personal information for filling in webforms. Is there any such extension to Firefox that would allow such a thing?

Kind regards

Since we lost some posts when the DB backup was restored, I'll post this again.
http://autofill.mozdev.org
http://autoform.mozdev.org

 

[Stu]

Since we lost some posts when the DB backup was restored, I'll post this again.
http://autofill.mozdev.org
http://autoform.mozdev.org

Thanks! I managed to get your original post with those links and I'm currently using Autofill which does a reasonably good job. I hope I'm not sounding too picky here but I'm wondering if there is an extension that behaves in exactly the same way as Opera in that if I were to type in a letter S for example in a form field, a drop down menu would appear with all the stored information that I had beginning with the letter S.

Any suggestions you can offer about this would be much appreciated

 

[Computer Barbie]

When I right click something on firefox, the context menu goes up and off screen. I can not access the 'Open In New Tab' option. any advice?
thank you

 

[Computer Barbie]

How can i make the text larger permenantly in

firefox? when i use Ctrl button and the scroll

wheel, the text goes back to its previous size

after a brief period.

when i use fonts in options in tools, the text

only seems to get smaller in the topbar. I don't

want it smaller. any advice?

Thank you

 

[American Zombie]

Tools > Options -> General -->> Fonts & Colors -- change the size in Pixels - from the dropdown

After changing font clear cache.

 

[bluzeboy]

saving a page?

why when saving a page does some pages preview & some say preview is not available?

 

[bluzeboy]

Using firefox when (saving a page)how can I change it from default (windows picture & fax viewer)to Microsoft word?

 

[paul2-0-0-2]

Any1 know when you do the Speed Up Thing does it make Pictures Load Slow??

The Speed Up Thing where you Change something to 30?

 

[Xie]

Any1 know when you do the Speed Up Thing does it make Pictures Load Slow??

The Speed Up Thing where you Change something to 30?

It probably all depends on the site (webserver). If you look under options (in the suite anyways) it has a warning.

WARNING: pipelining is an experimental feature, designed to improve page-load performance, that is unfortantly not well supported by some some web servers and proxies.

 

[paul2-0-0-2]

Ah kool thx

Just wondered cause the Site loads fast just Images take Longer than being on 56k lol

 

[j79zlr]

When I right click something on firefox, the context menu goes up and off screen. I can not access the 'Open In New Tab' option. any advice?
thank you

Middle clicking a link will open it in a new tab too.

 

[seperatist]

in IE when i clicked on an nfo it would open notepad, in firefox it opens a blank page that says 'press back button to return to the previous page'. how can i get it to open notepad?


thanks

 

[ming]

Firefox is bloody ghey!!!

OK, so I'm not a big fan of Firefox, but I have my reasons. It's slow, and on many occasions it shows me the following error (see pic) when I'm 100000% sure there is something behind the link I click on.
Note: I haven't mentioned about security so don't throw the brick at me.

 

[Evil Marge]

Hey ming,try this.Worked for me
1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll
down and look for the following entries:

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.

2. 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 30. This
means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly 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 recieves.

If you're using a brodband connection you'll load pages 2-3 times faster now.

 

[sean.ferguson]

that works like a charm Marge, thanks

 

[Evil Marge]

that works like a charm Marge, thanks

Your welcome :laugh:

 

[ming]

Marge, Thanx for the help. Seems slightly quicker than before, but not as fast as IE still. BTW, What does those things do?

 

[Evil Marge]

I have no idea,guy on another forum gave me the info :laugh:

 

[sean.ferguson]

hehe, what a great in depth technical response

 

[NetRyder]

Pipelining retrieves all the contents of the page using a single connection (a pipeline, in other words) rather than opening up multiple connections for each item, making the retrieval process more efficient.
The initialpaint.delay value is just the wait-time before the rendering engine actually starts displaying what it has retrieved. It's set to a higher value by default for backward compatibility with slower connections.