Another About:Config Tip To Speed Up Your Firefox Browser
The Firefox web browsing software application permits you to make even drastic changes to the functioning of the web browser as long as you find it necessary. For example, you can instruct your web browsing software application to completely ignore all activity until it finishes loading the current page. If you give this instruction to your web browser, Mozilla Firefox will ignore all other activities and focus on simply loading the page on hand. It will respond to your commands only after It has the successfully completed the loading of the page. Needless to say, this is a bit drastic and would not be preferred by ordinary users. However, if you are working on a project that requires proper and methodical research, then you may find this particular modification to be of use until your research is completed. Your browser will focus on a single web page and nothing else before moving on to the next web page. Or, if you are certain that you would not be interrupting the functioning of the web browser until all the web pages have been loaded, you can instruct your browser to completely ignore all other instructions until all web pages have been loaded. How exactly can you make this modification to your browser? This modification has to be done through the about:config shortcut. Key in the address and enter this into the list of preferences of the web browser:
Right-click the window
Select New > Boolean
Type content.interrupt.parsing, Click OK,
Set the value to False
Click OK.
Once this is done, your web browsing software application will function exactly as described above. However, ordinary users need not always enter the about:config page to make changes to their web browser. Rather, they can install many software applications which shall perform this task for you. Such mini software applications are called Firefox extensions. A Firefox extension is nothing but a bunch of code written in such a manner that installation of the extension will achieve the purpose that it seeks to achieve. The installation shall make automatic changes to the source code to enable the web browser to perform the required action.
Different Firefox extensions are available for different purposes. As far as performance is concerned, you can increase the quality of your performance by blocking all flash advertisements from the web browsing software application. Flash advertisements are resource intensive media files that are hosted or embed on a particular site. These advertisements start automatically without your instructions. Needless to say, you end up for downloading data irrespective of whether you find it useful or not. This concept of flash advertisements starting automatically is not just a drag on your time but also on your resources. If your internet service provider charges on the basis of a data exchange, then unnecessary download of flash advertisements ought to be avoided. This will help you save money without doing anything fancy. Of course, if you want to check out the flash ad, all you need to do is permit the extension to make at the ad an exception. Once the exception is made, the flash advertisements on the site shall run freely until the ads are removed from the list of exceptions.
Hence, there Firefox extension does not require you to block all flash ads no matter what they are about. You can choose which ads to be permitted and which ads should be blocked. However, the question of automatically updating your web page and instructing your web browser to download embedded video files is simply not acceptable. The Firefox web browser does not allow that.
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