6 handy Firefox 2 tweaks

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6 handy Firefox 2 tweaks

by Jordan Running Oct 25th 2006

Step 1: Download Firefox 2.
Step 2: Bend it to your will.

Lifehacker has printed a nice set of tweaks for Firefox 2 to make your browsing experience happer. There's six tweaks, including changing the tab scrolling behavior, modifying prefetching settings, and limiting its RAM usage. None of them are mind-blowing, especially to Firefox power-users, but there's few things that make me happier than undocumented tweakage. If you have your own Firefox 2 tips and tweaks, please post them in the comments or send them via our tips form.

In related news, Microsoft's Internet Explorer team reportedly sent the Firefox developers a cake to congratulate them on the release of the new browser. "No, it was not poisoned," says Mozilla Corp.'s Fred Wenzel.

Tags: firefox, firefox 2, Firefox2, lifehacker, tips, tweaks

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Stu Cook said 4:16PM on 10-25-2006

It might be mentioned on there although I didn't spot it:
To remove the pointless go button you can go into about:config and change the value of browser.urlbar.hideGoButton to true

derrick said 8:38AM on 10-26-2006

I was happy I was able to return my tabs close button to the way the previous version of firefox worked.

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