Firefox tricks & tweaks
A short list of tips for Firefox users:
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- Turn on http and proxy pipelining to enhance browsing speed 200-500%: details.
- Install the fasterfox firefox extension to tweak these options visually, and play with other network settings based on your connection speed.
- The default "View source" program from Firefox behaves nicely and refreshes from the server on CTRL+R or F5; just like a regular webpage. This helps a lot if you do live debugging (like I do a lot; var_dump(), print_r() I know I shouldn't, I know..) since you don't have to get the formatted HTML from the server, but can refresh directly on the source. Compared to the default notepad from IE and Opera <=8.5; this source code viewer is amazing.
- Select text in a webpage and use "View Selection Source" to jump to that element's HTML code.
- Greasemonkey is cool, but install it only if you need it; it adds javascript calls on every page rendered.
- Last but not least, don't get too "sticked" to firefox, IE7 is in beta
and usually Microsoft paid good atention to competitors in the past. I
think Firefox's only chance to keep up with the software giant is to be
further developed by google.
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