Here are few quick tips on getting to see what could be wrong with firefox.
Config entries – about:config
Support Information – about:support
Details on config entries – http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries
Reset firefox profile – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems
Firefox profiles – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data
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Firefox 15 has arrived and there is lot to brag about. Since there are already many blogs on this, so just giving you a link to one of those. But what is most interesting is the integration of PDF.js. It is a new html5 + javascript based pdf viewer.
And to enable this viewer all you need to do is go to “about:config“. Search for pdfjs and set pdfjs.disabled to “FALSE” and your browser is all set to use the inline pdf viewer.
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Speed Up Firefox by Moving Your Cache to RAM, No RAM Disk Required [Firefox Tip] Click here to read Speed Up Firefox by Moving Your Cache to RAM, No RAM Disk Required We’ved talked about moving your cache files to a RAM disk to speed things up, but it turns out Firefox has this feature built in. Here’s how to turn it on. More »
Continue readingAfter I installed some plugin’s, the new windows were not opening in the tab. Rather they were opening in new window. This consumes time and memory which I did not like. I checked and re-checked to confirm that the setting for opening new window in tab was in there and still ………. alas……..
So, I reverted to checking if I could do something in the about:config entries to do the trick and yes it was there. Before we go into the specific entry, if you are interested, here is the link to the mozilla site for documentation on the about:config parameters. If you want to tinker with the settings, I suggest you first go through the list and make sure what you are doing.
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