Speed Up Mozilla Firefox (2011)

Speed up your browsing speed of firfox browser. You just need to change some firefox settings. follow these steps-



1- Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit enter. Scroll down the page and look for the following entries in the table shown.


network.http.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
network.http.proxy.pipelining


2- change the values of these 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.


3- At Last right click anywhere in the page and select New --> Integer in the popup menu. Give it's name as follow:


"nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". 


This new value is the amount of time that browser waits before it acts on any information it receives. 
Now your surfing speed will be much faster than before....
try it..

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Firefox Tricks (2011)

Firefox is most widely used web browser over the world. Many users prefer Firefox for fast web surfing. Hackers use it as a hacking tool. You must know some important Firefox tricks to speedup your surfing. These are some Firefox tricks.

 Keyboard shortcuts. This is where you become a real Jedi. It just takes a little while to learn these, but once you do, your browsing will be super fast. Here are some of the most common (and my personal favs):

•  Spacebar (page down)
•  Shift-Spacebar (page up)
•  Ctrl+F (find)
•  Alt-N (find next)
•  Ctrl+D (bookmark page)
• Ctrl+T (new tab)
•  Ctrl+K (go to search box)
•  Ctrl+L (go to address bar)
•  Ctrl+= (increase text size)
•  Ctrl+- (decrease text size)
•  Ctrl-W (close tab)
•  F5 (reload)
•  Alt-Home (go to home page)

Tab navigation. Instead of using the mouse to select different tabs that you have open, use the keyboard. Here are the shortcuts:

•  Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward among tabs)
•  Ctrl+Shft+Tab (rotate to the previous tab)
•  Ctrl+1-9 (choose a number to jump to a specific tab)

Mouse shortcuts. Sometimes you’re already using your mouse and it’s easier to use a mouse shortcut than to go back to the keyboard. Master these cool ones:

• Middle click on link (opens in new tab)
• Shift-scroll down (previous page)
• Shift-scroll up (next page)
• Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size)
• Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size)
• Middle click on a tab (closes tab)

Auto-complete. This is another keyboard shortcut, but it’s not commonly known and very useful.  By using this you can surf to your website by less typing effort. Go to the address bar and type the name of the site without the “www” or the “.com”. Let’s say “Google”. Then press Control-Enter, and it will automatically fill in the “www” and the “.com” and take you there – like magic! For .net addresses, press Shift-Enter, and for .org addresses, press Control-Shift-Enter.

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Retrieve Private Browsing History on Firefox with PrivateBrowsingHistoryRecovery

Firefox Private browsing was introduced in Firefox 3.5 with the goal to protect user privacy. In a regular browsing session Firefox or any other browser tracks and records lots of data such as the site user visits, search bar entries, download lists, cookies & web cache files but if you don’t want Firefox to record this stuff then that’s where private browsing comes to the rescue.

You can enable Firefox private browsing by hitting Ctrl+Shift+P shortcut or via Firefox Menu -> Start Private Browsing option. You might be thinking private browsing will save you from other users of computer snooping into browser history; unfortunately that’s not true. Your private browsing history can be easily recovered with one of the Firefox extension, PrivateBrowsingHistoryRecovery.

The Nicoleta developer behind this extension says that, “The extension was implemented as a part of my dissertation project with the aim to illustrate the limitations found on private browsing mode.”

To install PrivateBrowsingHistoryRecovery visit this extension page and hit Add to Firefox button and restart your browser.

Once installed you can load the private history sidebar using CTRL+SHIFT+U as the shortcut keyboard key, or otherwise by selecting on Firefox View-> Sidebar-> PrivateBrowsingRetriever. Once sidebar is loaded every sites you visits in your private browsing session will be recorded proving Firefox Private Browsing is not truly that private.

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