As some of you may already know that in firefox all the major settings can be configured in the about:config page. Those of you who do not know or have never used it here's a How to.

Just follow these steps to open the about:config page:-

1. Open the firefox and type about:config in the address bar
   


2. Now a page will appear which will represent a warning message "This might void your warranty" and a button "I'll be carefull , I promise" press it.

and now we can apply the firefox hacks :-

1. Speed hack:-

The following settings should be helpful in enhancing your browsing experience with firefox, their values are mentioned below :-

• network.http.pipelining /** default = false **/: Double click on this value to change it to true. This enables the pipelining of http requests.


• network.http.proxy.pipelining /** default = false **/: Change this to true by double clicking on it.


• network.http.pipelining.maxrequests/** default=4 **/ : It means that how many pipelined request are possible. Change this value to 8 by right clicking on the setting and choosing modify.


• network.http.max-connections /** default=24 **/: If you want to keep many tabs open at the same time . Change this value to 96 .


• network.http.max-connections-per-server /** default=12 **/:If you want to make many requests to the web server at the same time. Change this setting value to 32.

2. To enable spell check in all fields :-

layout.spellcheckDefault /** default=1**/: This setting will enable the spell check for all the fields. Change this value to 2 .


3. Disable extension installation delay :-

security.dialog_enable_delay /** default = 20000 **/: This is delay time period in case you want to install a new Add-on to firefox. The delay feature is pretty annoying and you can turn it off. Just change the value to 0


4. Open search bar results in new tab:

browser.search.openintab/** default = false **/: If set to true this setting forces the opening of the results of search bar in a new tab. It is a setting that everyone should change because when it is set to false and you type something in the search bar, it will open the results in the tab in which you are currently viewing some other page which honestly is very irritating.


5. Clearing surfing information :

when user's normally delete the private data by going to Tools-> clear private data and think that they have deleted everything then they are wrong because the page being viewed is not deleted.

So for absolutely deleting the history follow 2 simple steps:-

1. In the address bar type about:blank (this essentially opens a trully blank page) and
2. then go to Tools -> clear private data and delete everything.

6. Disabling Automatic updates for extensions and firefox(core application) :

There are 2 settings that control the updates of extensions and firefox that one should turn off for disabling the automatic updates for extensions and firefox(core application) .

1. extensions.update.enabled : Change this to false by double clicking on the option. This turns off extension updates.

2. app.update.auto : Change this setting to false. This turns off automatic application update.