Najam Sikander

For all of those who just downloaded Firefox 1.5 and can’t get your extensions to work. This is a simple modification of Firefox’s configuration to trick the extensions to work. No need to manually edit the extensions to get them to work. Currently all the extensions I use work except the bookmark sync extension that I so dearly want to.

1. At the location bar, enter: about:config. This will show you a list of Firefox internal preferences.
2. Right-click on the list, select New > String
Enter “app.extensions.version� (without quotes) for the preference name.
3. Then, enter “1.0� (without quotes) as the value for app.extensions.version.
4. Restart Firefox 1.5, then enable those disabled Firefox extensions.
5. Restart Firefox 1.5 again to active the extensions. Done.

Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

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.

2. 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 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!

1. Download and install the latest Firefox
* Linux
* MacOS X
* Windows
2. Run Firefox and type ‘about:config’ in the location bar.
3. Right-click on the main content area.
1. Select New
2. Select Integer
4. Enter the preference name ‘browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers’ and click OK.
5. Enter ‘5′ and click OK.
6. Shutdown and restart Firefox.
7. Take the feature for a test drive!
1. View a large web page with lots of elements, like planet.mozilla.org or mozillaZine feedHouse.
2. Next, go to another page, like Slashdot.
3. Click Firefox’s Back button. If the preference is properly enabled, the previous page should appear instantly.
4. Click the Forward button to see it work again with Slashdot.

Firefox version 1.5 released today I have downloaded this latest version from http//:www.mozila.org

New features include a drag and drop for tabbed browsing, a better pop up blocker algorithm, and a reference search engine which includes answer.com, a better live bookmark feature, and an improved option interface.

The software also includes an auto update system when security patches need to be applied or additional features become available.

Mozilla also said that performance is better because of a next generation rendering and layout engine. Mozilla said there are now 700 extensions to Firefox. More are expected in the coming weeks.