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My TenFourFox About:Config tweaks - and my addons
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MacRumors had an update the other day. That had the effect of causing the frame at the top of the page that displays ads to reappear in my copy of TenFourFox. BluHell is blocking the ad of course, but now there is a giant gap. This annoys me.
In the past, when I was using Ad Block Plus I also used Ad Block Element Hider. This allowed me to "remove" elements of a page. This was great because I could hide stuff I didn't want to see. But I had to remove the addon once I stopped using ABP because it requires ABP.
So, this morning I decided to see if there were any addons out there that offered the functionality of Ad Block Element Hider but without having to use ABP.
I found Remove It Permanently. RIP lets you do the same thing, remove elements of a page you do not wish to see. It has fine grain controls for domain, website, similar pages and one page only - so you can specify just what you want removed and where.
Oddly enough it picked up my old Ad Block Element Hider settings!
I'm mentioning this here because it's another tool to block stuff that can be a problem to your web browsing speeds. It also removes Google Adsense.
The only downside is that the removal applies at the end of the page load.
In any case, I have now removed that empty ad frame and there is no longer any gap on my MR forum webpages.
In the past, when I was using Ad Block Plus I also used Ad Block Element Hider. This allowed me to "remove" elements of a page. This was great because I could hide stuff I didn't want to see. But I had to remove the addon once I stopped using ABP because it requires ABP.
So, this morning I decided to see if there were any addons out there that offered the functionality of Ad Block Element Hider but without having to use ABP.
I found Remove It Permanently. RIP lets you do the same thing, remove elements of a page you do not wish to see. It has fine grain controls for domain, website, similar pages and one page only - so you can specify just what you want removed and where.
Oddly enough it picked up my old Ad Block Element Hider settings!
I'm mentioning this here because it's another tool to block stuff that can be a problem to your web browsing speeds. It also removes Google Adsense.
The only downside is that the removal applies at the end of the page load.
In any case, I have now removed that empty ad frame and there is no longer any gap on my MR forum webpages.
network.http.max-connections - The maximum amount of connections the browser makes to any server.
network.http.pipelining.max-optimistic-requests - The maximum amount of requests to a server for data that the browser assumes it can make and expect a return.
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests - The maximum amount of requests to a server for data that the browser is allowed to make.
network.https.max-connections - Same as the other setting above but for HTTPS connections.
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FYI: There is a setting that controls how frequently Firefox writes / saves open pages to disk (you can read more here https://www.servethehome.com/firefox-is-eating-your-ssd-here-is-how-to-fix-it/). Being a SSD user I've updated the browser.sessionstore.interval setting in my browser from the default of 15000 (15 seconds) to 150000 (150 seconds).
The user.js file I maintain has been updated to v7 containing all tweaks from posts 1 through 183.
Details on the user.js file are in post 171 of this thread.
The user.js file I maintain has been updated to v7 containing all tweaks from posts 1 through 183.
Details on the user.js file are in post 171 of this thread.
FYI: Today I went to install Bluhell in a fresh install of TFF v 45.4.0 only to be told it's incompatible 
. After installing the checkCompatibility addon (that disables compatibility checking) I was able to install Bluhell .
. After installing the checkCompatibility addon (that disables compatibility checking) I was able to install Bluhell .
FYI: Today I went to install Bluhell in a fresh install of TFF v 45.4.0 only to be told it's incompatible
I wonder if that is a temporary issue...
It's a settings issue that you need an addon to fix.
You can turn of the compatiility checks by making these false:
extensions.checkCompatibility.XX.X (version number of FireFox/TenFourFox
extensions.checkCompatibility
extensions.checkCompatibility.nightly
But doing that has never had any effect for me. I've always had to install an addon that kills the check.
I have said it once and I'll say it again, I LOVE these tweaks. I install it on every one of my computers for any version of FireFox, including on Windows, newer macOS versions and Linux. I've installed it on all my family member's computers if they use Firefox. It just speeds up browsing on any computer from a G3 or a Pentium 3 to a brand new i7-6700.
Yes, that's the glitch I mean. Got irritated with it a few months back so started fresh (from a copy of Hack's prefs) and went addon by addon side by side with my PowerBook to make sure I had all my addons installed.
The glitch is eliminated with these prefs.
I was wondering if it was something that could be resolved in an update to Bluhell or TenFourFox since I never had any issues before installing Bluhell on stock TenFourFox before.
Like you Altermose, I never had this issue before. Being security minded I'd prefer to leave compatibility checking enabled - but haven't had any issues since disabling it.
UPDATE I: I examined Bluhell and as you can see in the (Bluhell) code snippet below - it has the minimum version declared as 48. Unless I'm mistaken TFF is at version 45.
Code:
<em:targetApplication>
<Description>
<!-- Firefox -->
<em:id>{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}</em:id>
<em:minVersion>48.0</em:minVersion>
<em:maxVersion>50.*</em:maxVersion>
</Description>
</em:targetApplication>UPDATE II: After editing the minVersion in (BluHell's) install.rdf , removing BluHell from TFF, and (re)enabling compatibility checking - I was able to install BluHell. No warnings, no issues.
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Therefore, I wonder if a future TenFourFox update will bring the version number to an acceptable version for most add-ons and extensions.
Entirely possible - it would be nice if TFF used the same version # as FireFox to avoid such issues.
They used to. At least with the major versions.
Then Mozilla came up with the ESR and rapid releae cycle thing and that blew version numbers out of the water. Kaiser's choice was to issue a new version number when he made it to the next ESR rather than trying to keep up with rapid version releases (no way he could do that).
So over time it threw it out of sync.
I just wanted to thank all the people here who have put work into this especially eyoungren. I'm still working through the tweaks but there has already been a massive improvement. My DP 1.4GHZ used to spike to 100% in both processors loading a page, now it's around 50%.
Next I'll be looking at improving typing speed.
Next I'll be looking at improving typing speed.
You can turn off the rich text editor on MacRumors, if that's what you mean.
OK. It's just a common issue people bring up a lot, so I figured that's what you were talking about. Sorry.
No worries. Just meant it isn't only a problem here. I had already known that one from awhile ago. Otherwise macrumors seems to work remarkably well even on really old hardware.