New Firefox 2 !!!

[atomMan]

@dsigma6 - don't sweat it, it's really easy. make sure FF is closed:

in your user profile directory, something like "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles", navigate to the "chrome" directory and you should have a userChrome.css file. or userChrome-example.css which you can rename. make sure this is at the top:

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/*
 * Do not remove the @namespace line -- it's required for correct functioning
 */
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* set default namespace to XUL */

below that you can do a return to get a blank line, then just insert one of the lines i quoted above (i use the 2nd one). save > restart FF. you really can't screw anything up - it will either work, or it won't.

[dsigma6]

Thanks, that was easy. My holdup was that I followed instructions that didn't mention putting the file in the chrome folder, but in the profile folder. Hopefully this helps with the lack of VRAM on the T23.

Dan

[PDX28]

Thanks a lot for the info,
PDX, did the password manager work for you before you went to Firefox 2.0? I don't actually have 2.0 but I can't get password manager to activate within Firefox, I will edit the file and take a look.

It was working with the 1.5 version also. The only thing is that the Ctrl+F2 doesn't work.

[atomMan]

@dsigma6 - there's a lot of other FF optimizations if you want to cut down on the resources it uses. Since you mentioned memory problems, i would install the Leak Monitor extension. This will test for some memory leaks that are common with extensions. Also check your extensions here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions

Other advise would be to use only the extensions you need. If you're using AdBlock, don't. Switch to AdBlock Plus. I'd also recommend a visit here: http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_1.html
Koroush is a really good guy and, like me, he lives to tweak the living daylights out of everything

If you look around for FF tweaks, inevitably you'll run into "pipelining" tweaks. There are a few very good reasons to IGNORE anyone or any extension which tweaks pipelining. There are very solid reasons why it's not enabled by default. Also changing "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" to "0" is a bad idea.

[dsigma6]

atomMan- I had tested out leak monitor a few days ago, but nothing seemed to happen...

I am happy using adblock plus, as I was tired of having Victoria's Secret Ads prominently displayed on comcast.net while at work.

Thanks for the tips- I've been skimming through and "don't touch this value if you don't have a problem" seems to be the overwhelming theme.

edit: I've found "Cooliris" to be a very interesting add-on. It opens links just by mouse over (in a pop-up), and they go away when you move the mouse off of them. Very cool, but also quite a pain at times. I've got to adjust the delay time.

[agarza]

Any one noticed phpbb shortcut keys no longer work in Firefox.

Example, when you finish typing a message here in the forums, press left Alt + s and it will submit the message. But in Firefox that functionality is gone.
Also when you want to type in your reply something like italic text, I just used to press left Alt + i. but now, no longer works