Firefox Help

[joema]

Just downloaded firefox an hour ago and using it no bother, just one annoying problem; every time I download/save a picture or media clip a "downloads" box appears in the top left of the screen and I have to stop and press "x" on it before I can continue. Anyone able to tell me how to stop his download box from popping up

[dahamsta]

Go to Tools > Options and uncheck "Show the Downloads window when downloadinga file".

adam

[joema]

Thanks

[pete]

The download window is good. Also no need for IE right click rubbish...

[NJTom]

Something to make Firefox faster

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 recieves.

[dahamsta]

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once. Please don't do this, it breaches the HTTP RFC and it can hammer webservers. If you want a faster Firefox, use Fasterfox (http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/) and set it to Optimized.

adam