Posts Tagged ‘firefox’

Safari 4 vs Firefox 3.1

There are two things Firefox can do that Safari can’t:
1. Set pipelining on. Although there is risk that the web servers can’t support pipelining it provides a nice speedup on a high-speed connection.
2. Allow tweaking of the Connections per server setting. This is technically against the recommendations of the w3c protocol but when you have [...]

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Firefox 3.1 + Tracemonkey = VERY FAST

John Resig – TraceMonkey
If you haven’t yet downloaded a nightly version of Firefox 3.1 go and do it.  Enable the Tracemonkey support by going to about:config and searching for “jit”.  Set both of the jit options to “true” and away you go.  The speed difference is incredible.  It made the Safari 4 [...]

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Firefox 3 Bookmarks with Quicksilver

Open about:config in Firefox Location bar, agree that you won’t mess anything up.
Search for “browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML”
Double click it to enable it (Or right click it and hit toggle)
Restart Firefox & Quicksilver…
“browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML” makes firefox generate a new bookmarks.html at a certain point (don’t know when).

Snap, refresh the Quicksilver Firefox catalog item and voila, it works, FTW!

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