Luminous

iTrader: (3)

Unfortunately there are people in this world that cannot spell. I am one of them

Anyone know if you can get some sort of plugin that you can activate to do spell checking for you?

I am getting tired of writing posts in Word, and then copying them into here

mike1210

http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/

that any good to ya?

Luminous

iTrader: (3)

You're damn right it is

BlkKnight

that is absolutely amazing

shame i can't get it to work

BlkKnight

that's much better - I didn't have the dictionary installed

mike1210

and if you haven't already install google preview:

http://ackroyd.de/googlepreview/

ace

download manager is great too

BlkKnight

Adblock

http://adblock.mozdev.org/

to import my settings, use this text file:

www.lanse.co.uk/adblock.txt
- right click save as

mike1210

yeah thats ace just tried a few **** sites and not one popup

mike1210

to make firefox run better try this

http://www.totalidea.com/freestuff4.htm



and for the download status bar try this

http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/

that is great too, even an option to scan the files once downloaded

Luminous

iTrader: (3)

Cool Am using all the ones suggested above, apart from the download status bar. Not really seen the need for that one

Another good one is image zoom. Allows you to hold your right mouse button on an image and then use the scroll wheel to make it bigger or smaller

Luminous

iTrader: (3)

I've not noticed any improvement in my Firefox after running Total Idea's Firetune mind.

Not really sure what it was supposed to do, <shrugs>

mike1210

i think it runs the tweaks in the about:config box as below and a few other things, it seems to load a bit quicker on mine but that may just be me, it seems to load the whole page in one go instead of in stages

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!

its been posted here a while back

Luminous

iTrader: (3)

I just re-ran and updated Firetune. Told it to optimise for a fast PC on a fast connection, and it did none of the tweaks that you mention above!!

So I have just gone and done them myself. Has made a big difference when navigating a site that you are already on. Initial loading of the site is not much different though.

Nice tweaks