Firefox Hacks

One
Incredibly annoying thing with Firefox in almost every Linux distro I
have tried except Linux Mint, is the default setting for the
backspace-button. Why it isn’t “back” as default is beyond me, but
there is a hack, and while we are at it, lets make a list. Lets call
it, hmmm………….
“Top-three-Firefox-hacks-I-cant-comprehend-mozilla-didn’t-make-default”
There, let the list… BEGIN!

• Minimize Hack

  The
  first hack that I have here is the popular Firefox Minimize Hack that
  almost everybody know about. The purpose of this hack tries to keep
  Firefox from eating up your physical RAM and instead puts the burden on
  your hard drive, or at least that is the general reason behind it. To
  implement this hack, perform the following steps.

  1. With Firefox up and running, type about:config and hit enter.
2. Right click on the new page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the pop-up window, type in “config.trim_on_minimize” without quotes and hit enter.
4. In the next pop-up window, select True and hit enter.
5. Restart your browser

• Network Hack

  This next group of hacks all relate to the network.http group in
  about:config. Basically these various options open up your network
  connection to Firefox, permitting it to access information online as
  quickly as your connection will permit you. To implement these hacks,
  perform the following steps.

  1. With Firefox up and running, type about:config and hit enter.
2a. Find the entry called “network.http.pipelining” and set it to “true”.
2b. Find the entry called “network.http.proxy.pipelining” and set it to “true”.
2c.
Find the entry called “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” and set it
to 16-32, but beware, if set too high you may risk banning yourself
from various servers by being mistaken for a DoS attack.
3. Restart your browser.

• Back Hack

  (he
  he, it rhymes…)The final point in this list is the hack which makes
  the backbutton take you back to the previous page, to resurrect the
  backspace button, perform the following steps.

  1. With Firefox up and running, type about:config and hit enter.
2. Find the entry called "browser.backspace_action" and change it's value to 0 (zero)
3. Restart your browser.

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