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--- firefox [2010/07/24 20:42]
greebo
+++ firefox [2014/01/30 10:27] (current)
zagi [Speeding up Firefox]
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 ====== Firefox ======
-[[firefox addons]]\\
+[[firefox:addons]]\\
 [[greasemonkey]]\\
-[[firefox#user.js|user.js]]\\
 [[firefox#about_url|about_url]]\\
-[[firefox#cpu optimized builds|Firefox CPU optimized builds]]
+[[firefox#cpu optimized builds|Firefox CPU optimized builds]]\\
+Optimized Firefox [[firefox:user.js|user configuration file]]\\
-=== Firefox config optimizations ===
-http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9020880
-=== Firefox hardware acceleration ===
+=== FIX Crashing X-window with ATI drivers while moving toolbar icons ==
-http://www.basschouten.com/blog1.php/2010/03/02/presenting-direct2d-hardware-acceleratio
-=== user.js ===
+nglayout.enable_drag_images false
-[[http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries|Mozillazine config entries explained]]
-user.js file is located in your Firefox profile folder:
-In Windows XP, the profile folder is
+=== Move disk cache onto RAMdisk ===
-\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile ID>.default\
-In Windows Vista, this folder is
+use tmpfs in linux
-\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile ID>.default\
-Note that Application Data and AppData are hidden folders by default, so they may not show up unless you force Explorer to show hidden objects. (Open the Control Panel, double-click Folder Options, select the View tab, select "Show hidden files and folders" and click OK.)
+add to /etc/fstab:
-In Mac OS X, the profile folder is
+  tmpfs		/mnt/ramdisk	tmpfs	size=520M,noatime,mode=0777     0       0
-<username>/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/<profile ID>.default/
-and in Linux it's
+use rmdisk in Windows http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/#ImDisk
-~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile ID>.default/
-= Make Firefox 4.0beta (Minefield) work with "incompatible" plugins =
+imdisk.exe -a -s 200M -m R: -S 4096 -p "/fs:exFAT /q /y"
-user_pref("extensions.checkCompatibility.4.0b", false);
+http://www.softperfect.com/products/ramdisk/
-(for release version use "extensions.checkCompatibility.4.0")
+in about:config add
+  browser.cache.disk.parent_directory  R:\
+  browser.cache.disk.capacity 190000
-<code javascript>
-  # no blinking text
-  user_pref("browser.blink_allowed", false);
-  #
-  //
-  user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
-  user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
-  user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
-  user_pref("network.http.pipelining.firstrequest", true);
-  user_pref("network.http.request.max-start-delay", 0);
-  user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);
-  user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);
-  user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 12);
-  user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8);
-  // keep-alive timeout. default is 115
-  user_pref("network.http.keep-alive.timeout", 30);
-  // Enable prefetching
-  user_pref("network.prefetch-next", true);
-  // Disable offline mode
-  user_pref("browser.offline-apps.notify", false);
-  #
-  user_pref("network.ftp.idleConnectionTimeout", 60);
-  // Just to make sure, disable windows shell: protocol
-  user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.shell", false);
-  #
-  // DNS
-  user_pref("network.dnsCacheEntries", 1024);
-  user_pref("network.dnsCacheExpiration", 300);
-  #
-  // Remove painting delay when loading pages. Default is 250
-  user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
-  #
-  user_pref("ui.submenuDelay", 50);
-  #
-  user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
-  user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
-  user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
-  user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
-  user_pref("content.notify.interval",750000);
-  user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 8191);
-  user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
-  #
-  # Cache
-  user_pref("browser.cache.offline.enable", false);
-  # Disable disk cache  - using only RAM
-  #user_pref("browser.cache.disk.enable", false);
-  user_pref("browser.cache.memory.enable", true);
-  #
-  # Specify the amount of memory cache:
-  # -1 = determine dynamically (default), 0 = none, n = memory capacity in kilobytes
-  user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65535);
-  # How many sites to remember for back/forward function
-  user_pref("browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers", 3);
-  #
-  # Move Firefox out of working memory to swap memory on minimize. Windows ONLY!
-  #user_pref("config.trim_on_minimize", true);
-  #
-  # Allow certain sites to acces local files
-  user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.checkloaduri.enabled", "allAccess");
-  user_pref("capability.policy.localfilelinks.sites", "pardus.at");
-  user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "localfilelinks");
-  #
-  # Location address functions
-  user_pref("layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word", false);
-  user_pref("layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation",false);
-  user_pref("browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll", false);
-  #
-  user_pref("browser.search.openintab", true);
-  user_pref("browser.tabs.closeButtons", 0);
-  user_pref("browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace", false);
-  user_pref("browser.tabs.tabMinWidth",80);
-  // Open new windows in tab
+=== Make Firefox remember all forms and passwords ===
-  user_pref("browser.link.open_newwindow", 3);
-  #
-  #http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.sendRefererHeader
-  user_pref("network.http.sendRefererHeader", 1);
-  # make all frames resizeable
-  user_pref("layout.frames.force_resizability",true);
-  # disable target="_blank" (open in same window):
-  user_pref("browser.block.target_new_window", true);
-  # Stop reusing active windows:
-  user_pref("advanced.system.supportDDEExec", false);
-  # do not close Firefox with last tab
-  user_pref ("browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab", false);
-  // extensions/plugins/addons
-  # do NOT scan for additional plugins on local computer
-  user_pref ("plugin.scan.plid.all", false);
-  user_pref("extensions.disabledObsolete", true);
-  // disable addon countdown
-  user_pref("security.dialog_enable_delay", 1);
-  // Show full path for plugin file on about:plugins page
-  // the full path was removed for security purposes, please keep that in mind
-  // Note: showing full paths can be a security risk only use when debugging.
-  user_pref("plugin.expose_full_path", true);
-  #
-  # disable javascript annoyances
-  ## user_pref("dom.disable_window_status_change", true);
-  user_pref("browser.jsannoyances.disabled", true);
-  user_pref("dom.event.contextmenu.enabled", false);
-  #
-  user_pref("browser.display.show_image_placeholders", false);
-  // Shows an error page instead of an error popup dialog
+find nsLoginManager.js\\
-  //if you load multiple pages at the same the dialog box actually holds up the browser
+\\
-  // using this will allow the other pages/elements to load for the rest of the pages
+linux
-  user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true)
+  /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1.5/components/nsLoginManager.js
+\\
+windows
+  C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\nsLoginManager.js)
+\\
+Once you've found that file, open it in an editor, and find the section that has isAutoCompleteDisabled, and make it look like this (so it will always return FALSE):
+<code>
+    /*
+    * _isAutoCompleteDisabled
+    *
+    * Returns true if the page requests autocomplete be disabled for the
+    * specified form input.
+    */
+    _isAutocompleteDisabled :  function (element) {
+    //        if (element && element.hasAttribute(”autocomplete”) &&
+    //            element.getAttribute(”autocomplete”).toLowerCase() == “off”)
+    //            return true;
+    return false;
+    },
 </code>
+In recent FF versions the nsLoginManager.js file is located in the "omni.jar" file (or "omni.ja" since FF 10).
+You'd have to open omni.jar with an unarchiver tool and look for your file in the "components" folder.
+After the modification select all files/folders within the omni folder, re-compress them and rename the resultant archive file to omni.jar
+=== Make old Firefox add-ons "compatible" ===
+Find in install.rdf section similar to this:
+<code>
+  <em:targetApplication>
+  <Description>
+	<em:id>{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}</em:id>
+	<em:minVersion>1.0</em:minVersion>
+	<em:maxVersion>3.6.*</em:maxVersion>
+  </Description>
+  </em:targetApplication>
+</code>
+and change maxVersion to something higher...
+=== Firefox config optimizations ===
+http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9020880
+=== Firefox hardware acceleration ===
+http://www.basschouten.com/blog1.php/2010/03/02/presenting-direct2d-hardware-acceleratio
 === about_url ===
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 check SQLoptimizer add-on!\\
+<note important>install sqlite3 command line package first!</note>
 Firefox insists on doing huge amounts of I/O when closing, as well as act slow when using the awesomebar, try the following (close down Firefox completely first):
 <code>
-    for f in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite; do sqlite3 $f ‘VACUUM;’; done
+#!/bin/bash
+killall firefox
+killall thunderbird
+du -hs ~/.mozilla/firefox
+du -hs ~/.thunderbird
+for f in  ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite; do sqlite3 ${f} "VACUUM;"; done
+for f in  ~/.thunderbird/*/*.sqlite; do sqlite3 ${f} "VACUUM;"; done
+du -hs ~/.mozilla/firefox
+du -hs ~/.thunderbird
 </code>
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 Win32 .bat file:
 <code>
-for %%v in (*.sqlite) do sqlite3 "%%v" VACUUM;
+@echo off
+setlocal
+pushd
+REM IF EXIST "%APPDATA%\Thunderbird\Profiles" SET "HAS_TBIRD=1"
+REM IF EXIST "%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles" SET "HAS_FFOX=1"
+REM IF EXIST "%APPDATA%\Moonchild Productions\Pale Moon\profiles" SET "HAS_PALEMOON=1"
+set profiles=%APPDATA%\Thunderbird\Profiles
+cd /d %profiles%
+ for /r %%a in (*.sqlite) do (
+ echo %%a
+ sqlite3 "%%a" VACUUM;
+ sqlite3 "%%a" REINDEX;
+  )
+set profiles=%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
+cd /d %profiles%
+ for /r %%a in (*.sqlite) do (
+ echo %%a
+ sqlite3 "%%a" VACUUM;
+ sqlite3 "%%a" REINDEX;
+  )
+set profiles=%APPDATA%\Moonchild Productions\Pale Moon\profiles
+cd /d %profiles%
+for /r %%a in (*.sqlite) do (
+ echo %%a
+ sqlite3 "%%a" VACUUM;
+ sqlite3 "%%a" REINDEX;
+  )
+popd
 </code>
 It’s harmless, no data will be lost: it compacts your **__[[sqlite]]__** databases.
 ==== cpu optimized builds ====