be SURE to download the media files:
java
shockwave
flash
to view media in firefox also Windows Media Player for Firefox
all are included below
Firefox has updated so be sure you have 3.0.1
try it,you'll like it. any questions,feel free to e-mail me
1st thing to do is disable Internet Explorer as your "Default" web browser:
start--control panel--internet options--advanced--programs
un check the "check if Internet Explorer is default web browser" box
next,after installing Firefox,open the options section:
tools--options
see my Firefox recommendations here
http://mozilla.friendpages.com
be sure to check box making Firefox your default web browser
here are some other recommendations to make Firefox a better browser
MY FIREFOX
Get Firefox
[ presently @ 3.0.1 ]
http://www.getfirefox.com
FIREFOX MEDIA PLUGINS
after download,be sure to click each downloads update link
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:7
Java
you can refuse the Yahoo Toolbar download included
Shockwave
refuse the Norton Toolbar download
Real Player
Windows Media Player
Flash
Quicktime
watch for:
itunes download
newsletters
"other" Apple updates
uncheck each of these
DivX for Windows - DivX Play 6.8.0.30
http://www.brothersoft.com/divx-play-72094.html
Codecs:
Vista Codec Package
Compiles the best codecs from all the big name codec packs
http://majorgeeks.com/Vista_Codec_Package_d5326.html
XP Codec Pack -
Codec pack and Media Player Classic helps you to play all major audio and video formats.
http://majorgeeks.com/XP_Codec_Pack_d4838.html
Saving Flash files from Firefox
Firefox for Newbies
a. Click Tools - Page Info
b. Click the Media Tab on the Page Info Windows
c. The media tab has a complete list (with preview) of Images, CSS Files and Shockwave Flash files that were downloaded by the Firefox browser while rendering (loading) the page.
d. Scroll down the list and locate the swf file.
e. Click the "Save As" button. Select some directory on your hard drive and save the file (No need for a third-party plug-in)
Firefox for Geeks and Power Users
a. Type about:blank in the Firefox address bar
b. Now click List cache entries or directly type about:cache?device=disk (Disk cache device)
c. Press Ctrl+F and try to location the flash file by typing some part of website URL or the flash file name or just .swf. After some hit and trial, you should be able to locate the swf file URL
d. Click the SWF URL to open the Cache Entry Information page. Right click on the link and choose "Save link as"
Download All in FireFox Using Orbit Downloader
http://www.orbitdownloader.com/Download-All-in-FireFox.htm#youtube
UnPlug is an extension which lets you save video and audio which is embedded on a webpage - it's a video download tool.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2254
Install VeohTV | Veoh Video Network - http://www.veoh.com/downloadFlow.html
ABOUT:CONFIG
Firefox Slow Page Load - Solved
A co-worker showed me an interesting problem with Firefox today.
He loaded a page from our application (running on localhost) and the page content loaded instantly, but the page load itself didn’t end until a time out 20 seconds later.
Literally.Everything we saw a measured from the browser or from the sending application showed that the content was sent in milliseconds, and the page load was just sitting there doing nothing. \
We were even using the latest Firefox beta.
Other browsers had no such problem.
Turns out, we figured out what was going on using the Tamper Data add-on.
Turns out there was a Connection:
keep-alive in the header.
When we changed it from keep-alive to close,
the browser behaved as expected.
That is, it loaded the page instantly.
A little web investigation showed that when you use the keep-alive attribute
you must also use Content-Length: header,
which the sending application wasn’t doing.
A quick application tweak to send the content length, and everything ran super spiffy.
Now, if you don’t have access to the application that’s sending you web pages,
you can twiddle with the about:config and change the
network.http.keep-alive setting to false.
about:config adaptations to make Firefox faster
To configure the firefox browser:
3. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
(you can find these quickly by typing "network.http" in the filter field)
* 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.
4. 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 20. This means it will make 20 requests at once (8 should however be adequate to provide a significant boost).
Fetch only what you click.
Firefox has this wacky little feature that downloads pages from links it thinks you may click on pages you view, like the top result on a page of Google results. This means you use up bandwidth and CPU cycles and store history for web pages you may not have ever viewed. Creepy, eh? To stop that madness, set the network.prefetch-next key to false.
enter about:config in the searchbar
press enter or click go
in the filter text box,enter:
network.prefetch-next
right click on false and select toggle to switch to: true
Limit RAM usage
All versions: Goodness knows I've done a good amount of belly-aching about Firefox's voracious appetite for RAM. (It's consistently the most memory-intensive process on both my PC and Mac.) Happily a simple config tweak got Mem Use right back down to a more comfortable number. Along with the previous prefetch mod, set your browser.cache.disk.capacity to a value that fits your total RAM.
Depends on your system's total memory. According to Computerworld:
right click on value and select modify,enter 5000
layout.spellcheckDefault turns on Firefox 3's spell-checking in input fields as well as textareas.
including the subject line in email page
Slow Page Load
enter in filter:
network.http.keep.alive
right click true,select modify,enter: false
watch page loads whoose up at you!
here's a WINDOWS REGISTRY HACK to load windows faster:
start,run
enter
regedit
hkey_current_user
control panel
click desktop [ not expand ]
find:
menushowdelay
right click
select modify
change 400 to 50
here's another:
hkey_current_user
expand control panel
click [ not expand ] desktop
right click
screensavetimeout
select modify
set to 500
and another:
hkey_users
expand default
expand control panel
click [ not expand ] desktop
right click
screensavetimeout
select modify
set to 500
get's me from push the freaking button to desktop in exactly 20 seconds
AWSOME BAR FIX
With Firefox 3's Download Day upon us, a lot of folks are getting their first peek at the newest version of the popular browser. One of the first things you'll notice is the "Awesome Bar," a new feature that drops down a list of sites from your history and bookmarks as you type. For example, you could type "d," and your bookmark for Download Squad would pop up, along with downforeveryoneorjustme.com, if you've recently visited it.
For some people, this is going to be handy, but others are going to hate it. We have mixed opinions about the Awesome Bar here at Download Squad, so we're going to show you how to turn it off. First, go to your Firefox settings by putting "about:config" into the location bar. Click past the warning message, and scroll down to browser.urlbar.maxRichResults. This sets how many recommendations the Awesome Bar will display -- it's 12 by default, but you want to change it to 0.
Now your location bar should act more the one you're used to from Firefox 2. It'll still autocomplete addresses of sites you've been to, but the behavior that's been annoying some people so much will be gone. Alternately, an extension called Oldbar will give you back Firefox 2's dropdown behavior.
Tweak Firefox to Display Richer Colors [Firefox 3]
from Lifehacker by Gina Trapani
fx3vsfx2.pngIf the digital photo you just uploaded looks more washed out in Flickr than it does in your desktop image editor, that's because Firefox 3's advanced color management capability isn't turned on by default. To turn it on, type about:config in Firefox 3's address bar, then click the "I'll be careful, I promise!" button. Then, in the Filter field, type gfx.color_management.enabled and set that value to true (its default value is false). Restart Firefox. From there on in, your photo colors will be richer than they were. Why isn't this value true by default? Well, according to Mozilla, you'll see a 10-15% performance hit using this setting, but if you've got a reasonably fast machine, it'll be worth the better-looking photos. Hit the link below for an extended explanation of Firefox's color profile support.
STOP BLINKING
If blinking text on a web page (like in the comments here on Lifehacker) is threatening to give you a seizure—or just making your head hurt—you can disable it in Firefox with a simple configuration tweak. No extension or user script required: just type about:config in Firefox's address bar, press the "I'll be careful, I promise!" button, and then in the Filter field, enter browser.blink_allowed. Change [