Firefox patch

https://addons.mozilla.org/messages/307259.html

I suggest doing the manual method since it is easy enough.

I tested the security exploit which I will not post here and it does indeed crash Firefox.

Thanks for the update. Just did it.

Anyone checked out the Deer Park beta yet?

There have been two threads now with the incomplete firefox tweak form the inquirer.net.
Here is the complete tweak. (note the last step)
Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up...

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!

There are more tweaks that I use. I'm at work, but I'll post them when I get home.

About "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" setting it to 0 will force rendering while downloading the html. This screws up layouts sometimes (New Scientist is a good example on my machine).

The initial value is 250 milliseconds. You could set it to something like 100 or so, see how it works out.

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Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

You are allowed to set the number, but there is a hard coded max of 8. Setting it higher won't hurt anything.

The patch I was talking about in the first post was for a security issue and had nothing to do with tweaking.

firefox can be tweaked??? AND IT ALREADY WAS SCHWEET!!! i cant wait till iget home to try this!

Thanks for the heads up. It has been patched in 1.0.8.