Firefox 2.0 config tweaks

All of these tweaks are implemented in about:config and are documented at the Mozilla wiki. Any questions, make a thread in the forums, or add comments in here - just use the sig button (second from right) to sign any comments.

Miss the old school “One close button to rule them all” interface, you luddite ? Well, you can bring back the glory days of Fx 1.5.

Set browser.tabs.closeButtons to 2.
Changing it to 0 will only have a close button on the active tab - handy if you keep closing tabs by mistake when trying to select them.

Feature, bug, whatever, it was annoying, no?

Set browser.cache.memory.capacity to one of the following recommended values, dependent on RAM:

RAM	Value
<=512MB	5000
512MB - 1GB	15000
> 1GB	You’re having problems?

I never liked this, and being stuck behind a proxy that dies if too many concurrent HTTP requests go out, it’s dangerous.

Set network.prefetch-next to false.

Ugly and useless.

Set browser.urlbar.hideGoButton to true.

If you’re unable or unwilling to install Macromedia’s latest bloatware, you can nix the annoying ribbon that appears with every Flash advertisement.

Set plugin.default_plugin_disabled to false.
(Note, you may need to restart Firefox for this to take effect.)

If you’re like me, you don’t need a tooltip to find your stop button.

Set browser.chrome.toolbar_tips to false.

I don’t want large pictures made smaller. There’s probably a reason why it’s large.

browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing = false

To have whatever you had opened when you closed Firefox open again when you start Firefox, set the following:

• browser.startup.page = 3
• browser.sessionstore.enabled = true

To use the spellchecker in textfields as well as textareas, set the following:
layout.spellcheckDefault = 2