Fix video stuttering in Firefox

Kirk Ireson — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:12:33 +0000

If you notice that Youtube and other video streams stutter or momentarily pause during playback, here’s a quick fix to prevent that:

Type about:config into Firefox’s address bar
In the filter box enter browser.sessionstore.interval
Set the value to 120000 (which lengthens the period between snapshots to two minutes)

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Firefox, setup secure google search in quick search box

Kirk Ireson — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:01:19 +0000

Google now has encrypted Google web search. Here’s how to enable it in the quick search box in Firefox:

In Mac OS X, edit this file /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/searchplugins/google.xml, (on Windows you should find it at C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins\google.xml ). Go to the 7th line and add an ‘s’ after ‘http’, so that it looks like this when done editing.

Save this file and relaunch Firefox.

Get rid of that annoying dashed line around objects when clicking in Firefox

Kirk Ireson — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:09:13 +0000

How to get rid of that annoying dashed line around objects when clicking in Firefox:

In the url Location Bar, type ‘about:config’.
Then in the filter box, type ‘browser.display.focus_ring_width’.
Set its value from 1 to 0.

The Best Firefox Add-ons

Kirk Ireson — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:47:28 +0000

I can’t use any other browser no matter how fast or cool because I’ve gotten so used to add-ons for firefox!

Here are mine, and in case you’re wondering, I have all these currently installed (Mac OS, is my current OS of choice) and Firefox runs at nearly the same speed as no add-ons:

——— These are INDISPENSIBLE: ———

DownloadStatusbar: Simply a much better download manager.
http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/

FlashBlock: Replaces flash objects with a play button (‘>’) you must click before you can see it. Purpose is to lessen the amount of distracting things shown on most webpages. You can add any website to a whitelist.
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

NoScript: Extra protection! You must explicitly opt-in to any javascript or java (and other plugins) for every website (permanently or for just this session). You can add any website to a whitelist.
http://noscript.net/

Tab Mix Plus: Lots of fantastic tweaks for tabbed browsing.
http://tmp.garyr.net/ lastest (beta) versions here:
http://tmp.garyr.net/dev-builds/

Nuke Anything Enhanced: Allows you to select any object (e.g. text, image) in a webpage and choose to remove it or remove everything else (can bring everything back with a simple page refresh). Fantastic uses: delete an annoying animated gif!, or clean up a page before printing!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/951

——— Adds lots of convienience: ———

MouseGestures: Use your mouse for navigation. For example, holding the right mouse button while clicking the left, takes you back a page.
http://www.mousegestures.org/

LinkAlert: Changes the cursor to indicate the target of a link (e.g. shows a small pdf image if it links to a pdf)
http://linkalert.googlepages.com/

ForecastFox: Displays the current weather (including radar/satellite) and forecast info constantly in your toolbar or statusbar. Nicely configurable. Sure nice to have in a place where it actually rains!
http://users.rcn.com/shoofy/forecastfox_enhanced/

Fire.fm: Brings last.fm audio streaming (free) to your browser with a handy small controller!!
http://sourceforge.net/projects/firefm/

Mac PDF: (Mac only) displays pdf documents in their own tab (instead of launching Mac’s built-in “Preview”)
http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/

GMarks: Allows you to have access to your Google Bookmarks everywhere and easily. I’m still getting use to this as I’m not a very organized bookmarker. What’s cool about this is that you can search for text within the entire webpage of any bookmark you have – pretty powerful that is!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2888 see also
http://www.google.com/bookmarks/

BugMeNot: Allows anonymous logins to those annoying “free” websites (e.g. NY Times)
http://erichamiter.com/firefox/bugmenot/

——— KEY Webpage Development or Tweaking or Investigating Tools: ———

Firebug: Tons of tools; can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page!
http://getfirebug.com/

Web Developer Toolbar: Big and extremely helpful set of tools for messing with webpages.
http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/

TamperData: View and modify HTTP/HTTPS headers, etc.
http://tamperdata.mozdev.org/

——— Some ‘niceties’ provided by lifehacker.com: ———
All these allow small tweaks to the way their respective websites are displayed:

better-youtube:
http://lifehacker.com/software/exclusive-lifehacker-download/better-youtube-firefox-extension-319925.php

better-google-reader:
http://lifehacker.com/software/exclusive-lifehacker-download/trick-out-google-reader-with-better-greader-262020.php

better gmail:
http://lifehacker.com/software/exclusive-lifehacker-download/better-gmail-2-firefox-extension-for-new-gmail-320618.php

better gcal:
http://lifehacker.com/software/exclusive-lifehacker-download/enhance-google-calendar-with-the-better-gcal-firefox-extension-260074.php

better amazon:
http://lifehacker.com/397946/better-amazon-firefox-extension-upgrades-amazoncom

——— Deactivated mine, but you may want to check out: ———

LiveHTTPHeaders: View HTTP headers of a page while browsing.
http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/

Nightly Tester Tools: You’ll need this to allow add-ons to work if you’re using a beta version (i.e. Minefield) of Firefox.
http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly

Google Pagerank Status: Display the google pagerank for the currently viewed page. (VERY unfortunately, this add-on is not kept current)
http://www.tapouillo.com/firefox_extension/

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