Firefox Modifying

Christmas is over and I will start doing audio posts on the weekends because I got a cellphone with free long distance. Ok, we've talked a lot about firefox 1.0 and now I'm gonna tell you how to modify your firefox 1.0 to where it WILL be one of the most useful browsers you'll have.

First the non hands on stuff.

If you have firefox 1.0 clicking here will start the installation of an extention that is very useful in hands on privacy. It hooks a button onto your browser that when clicked clears your history, form info, saved passwords, download history, cookies, and the cache. This is useful if someone is gonna get ahold of it and you wanna hide everything. It's labled Paranoia.

This is a editing extention for Firefox, called Chromedit, which will be useful for future hacks and one of them I'm gonna talk about in this update.

Now the more hands on hacks.

type "about:config" into your address bar(without the quotes) and go there.
This is kind of a debug menu.

If you're on broadband
scroll down till you see "network.http.pipelining"
Once you find this you'll be in the right area. Change the following:
network.http.max-connections
to 64
network.http.max-connections-per-server
to 21
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server
to 8
network.http.pipelining
to true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
to 100
network.http.proxy.pipelining
to true

All of this will speed up your connection immensely. The pipelining will send several requests all at once. The rest increases the ammount of info that'll flow.

If you're on dialup......get a broadband...but if you can't do this

browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl
to true
browser.xul.error_pages.enabled
to true
content.interrupt.parsing
to true
content.max.tokenizing.time
to 3000000
content.maxtextrun
to 8191
content.notify.backoffcount
to 5
content.notify.interval
to 750000
content.notify.ontimer
to true
content.switch.threshold
to 750000
network.http.max-connections
to 32
network.http.max-connections-per-server
to 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy
to 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server
to 4
network.http.pipelining
to true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
to 8
network.http.proxy.pipelining
to true
nglayout.initialpaint.delay
to 750
plugin.expose_full_path
to true
signed.applets.codebase_principal_support
to true


I'm not getting into the specifics of what each of these do, it'll just speed you up.


NO MATTER WHAT CONNECTION YOU HAVE, do the following after you do the section for your connection.

You need to right click in the open area and go to new>integer
It'll ask for a name for it...input "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" (without the quotes) as the name. Then it will ask for a value, set this to zero. Thats how long it takes before your browser acts on the information it's recieving.


OK, not what?....For those of you who have GMail, I'm gonna help yo uremove the text ads from it. Remember the Chromedit you downloaded? Well, now we're gonna use it.

*note, you must close firefox completely and restart it to get newly installed extentions working.

Go to tools and click on "Edit User Files." A new window with 5 tabs is gonna show up and you're gonna want to click the tab labled "userContent.css" because this is where we're gonna add stuff. Copy the following code:

#rh table[class="metatable"]{display: none !important;}
#rh div[class="c"] {display: none !important;}

and paste it into the file then click "Save." Remember, just copy and paste it, otherwise you'll fuck something up. I can't promise this hack'll last very long because as Gmail changes so will the base code.


OK, now for the news, SUPRNOVA.ORG, previously a great bit-torrent site shut down, but fear not, they are sandy bastards (we like sandy bastards here) and put out the beta version of their site in an application. eXeem is currently avaliable to 5000 beta testers and will, hopefully, soon be out for us to play with. They are decentralizing the torrent locations while before there were trackers which became very potent targets for the RIAA/MPAA twats.

I talked about Gigabyte producing a dual processing graphics card, well here it is...Imagine 2 of those hooked up through SLI, HOLY SHIT!

Well, thats it, sorry for not posting recently, been busy with the holiday season. Sorry for such a long post, had a lot to tell, Take it easy all, Late
AK