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Title: Firefox Browser Tweak
Post by: RedDg on January 28, 2005, 12:03:50 PM

This tweak will disable IPv6 in Firefox, because most (if not all) of the web is still using IPv4.

Open Firefox and type in about:config

Find network.dns.disableIPv6

Double click to toggle it to true and then restart Firefox.

You should notice a speed increase, page to page.

Title: Firefox Browser Tweak
Post by: lada on January 28, 2005, 12:15:45 PM

umm ... IMO this will just disable IPv6 query to DNS server.

anyway it works, thx :)

Title: Firefox Browser Tweak
Post by: bustr on January 28, 2005, 12:44:16 PM

RedDog,

Thanks for the tweek. I installed Firefox. I've been getting adware hijacks that kill my game FR almost every time I browse the internet lately. 120FR is what I normally have. The hijacks drop me to about 6-27. Every time I get one I have to go out and find another adware remover to detect it. The current ones don't seem to be able to see the new adware hijack I get after they have cleaned the previous. So besides my paid for McAfee suite I have about 6 freeware cleaners because only one out of all of them might detect what I've caught.:p

Title: Firefox Browser Tweak
Post by: Siaf__csf on January 28, 2005, 01:35:33 PM

What kind of sites do you guys surf on anyway? I never got one so far.

Title: Firefox Browser Tweak
Post by: TheDudeDVant on January 28, 2005, 01:38:23 PM

Thanks RedDg!

Title: Firefox Browser Tweak
Post by: Sandman on January 28, 2005, 02:31:06 PM

I had always thought that FireFox was just a tad slower than IE... that's the trick. Thanx!

Title: Firefox Browser Tweak
Post by: Octavius on January 28, 2005, 03:25:19 PM

Thank you thank you thank you!!

Had annoying and unnecessary pauses everywhere... they = gone!

(<--- uses Mozilla suite)

Title: Firefox Browser Tweak
Post by: RedDg on January 28, 2005, 07:53:10 PM

Glad to help :)

Title: Firefox Browser Tweak
Post by: Tarmac on January 28, 2005, 09:05:00 PM

Thanks!

Title: Firefox Browser Tweak
Post by: lazs2 on January 29, 2005, 10:42:35 AM

couldn't make firefox work...  gives the message that it can't find the server.

lazs

Title: Firefox Browser Tweak
Post by: scout on January 29, 2005, 11:22:18 AM

I wish FireFox would scroll faster on a web page (arrow keys).
Can this be tweaked ?

Title: Firefox Browser Tweak
Post by: Gunslinger on January 29, 2005, 11:22:49 AM

excuse the ignorance here but what exactly does this tweek do?

Title: Firefox Browser Tweak
Post by: XtrmeJ on January 29, 2005, 01:29:36 PM

Still can't figure out how to do this.

Title: Firefox Browser Tweak
Post by: XtrmeJ on January 29, 2005, 01:35:33 PM

Got it, sweet!

Title: Firefox Browser Tweak
Post by: Gunslinger on January 29, 2005, 05:02:17 PM

holey crap thats awsome.  Not sure what it did but it's flying now.

BTW, if anyones confused about how to do this Redg is talking about puting about:config in the address bar.

Title: Firefox Browser Tweak
Post by: schizer on January 29, 2005, 05:21:40 PM

Works great

Title: Firefox Browser Tweak
Post by: vorticon on January 29, 2005, 05:30:23 PM

that tweak not much helpfull on dialup...though i did find out how to kill that annoying "open new tab on middle mouse press" thingie...

Title: Firefox Browser Tweak
Post by: Panzzer on January 29, 2005, 05:33:14 PM

Quote

Originally posted by vorticon
annoying "open new tab on middle mouse press" thingie...

What's annoying about that? I like that feature...

Title: Firefox Browser Tweak
Post by: vorticon on January 29, 2005, 05:36:09 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Panzzer
What's annoying about that? I like that feature...

dont like tabs, and find it annoying when stuff oopens and im just trying to scroll...

Title: Firefox Browser Tweak
Post by: Panzzer on January 29, 2005, 05:47:27 PM

Ok.. Maybe you should learn scroll-wheel control. ;)

I find tabbed browsing to be so much easier than the annoying new browser windows which appear.. I now middle-click every link (except for the ones I right click and save as).

But I've been using Firefox since v. 0.3 (november 2002 when I started using this...) so I've had plenty of time to get used to tabbed browsing. :)