Firefox tips

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Look at multiple browsers with tabs:


When you type in a url in the address bar, hold down the Alt key when you hit enter and you will get a tab for the site your are on, and your new site (now the active tab). This way you can easily go between sites by just clicking on their tabs.

Click on the image to see a larger copy of the tab screen

Firefox tabs

Making your browser load pages faster:


  • In your address bar type about:config

  • Now scroll down to browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs
       This is set to false, double click on it to set this to true

  • Scroll down to network.http.pipelining
       Double click on this to make this setting true

  • Scroll to network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
       Double click on this and change the number from 4 to 100

    • You should now notice an increase in page loading speeds


    Thanks to Erik Roeckers, who informed us about these nice Firefox tips     		 
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