Enhancing your Firefox browsing 'experience'

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Re: Enhancing your Firefox browsing 'experience'

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Hey now Shroomz, there's plenty of threads to pick on braincell in...

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kylie wrote:well, I have

Adblock Plus - block ads
Flashblock - block flash
FlashGot - catch downloads and send it to your download manager
NoScript - disable scripting
SwitchProxy Tool - manage and switch proxy settings

over here. yeah, that's it. (I know there are some doubles :) )
nice additions kylie :)
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Hey Valis, he's changed it though.... :P :D

Thanks, Braincell.
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I made it. I'm an artist. I also made the other one. That was my eye.
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The eye didn't bug me personally but this one is definately better, I like the maya/sumerian-ish overtones...
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That is the spokesman for First American Bank. He's the First American. Get it?
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Sharc & I's 'browsing experience' went tits up since installing FF3. It's doin' my napper in. Slower.... EVERYTHING....

Not a particularly happy chappy..

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I am not in control. Now its ultra fast. Thank you oh lord of the sith. :eek:
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Re: Enhancing your Firefox browsing 'experience'

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?

Did you have any idea what happened? Sometimes user profiles can get corrupted, or certain plugins can be seriously 'leaky' (the downside to FF's memory model).
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then you are lucky. Last update killed all my passwords and preferences except from the link favourites
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You might be interested in FEBE then:
http://customsoftwareconsult.com/extens ... /febe.html

It's a tool to allow you to backup your entire Firefox2/3 profile, or portions thereof. You'll need to go in and setup the directory to backup to and such, and I highly recommend you set it up to backup individual items rather than the entire profile.

When you backup the entire profile it can't actually restore it directly, you have to rename the backup file with a .zip extension (or just open it in winzip/7zip etc in a way that allows you to specify the file as a zip32 format file) and then extract it over your existing profile. The problem is that there are certain files that will still either be encrypted or have the wrong profile string (the string matches the string of characters you'll see for your profile's subdir under C:\Documents and Settings\%Username%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles or etc) and things won't work correctly.

When you backup Firefox's individual components, you can just reload your passwords, bookmarks, form field data etc using FEBE. Extensions & Themes you can just drag & drop to the 'addon' windows (tools>addons) manually so it's not even necessary to use febe for them (hint, just drag them all at once, restart FF & wait for them to install).

Since I do a lot of web-based work, I schedule a weekly backup in FEBE and have another sheduled process that then archives this to my NAS storage an hour later (for burning to disk later etc).
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thanks, Valis.
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Yes, I save the parts of the profile that it can save individually. Things like the chrome files for your current user account & search plugins can only be backed up with a full profile backup, but I've found that to be problematic as mentioned above. The only time you really need the the full profile backup feature anyway is for testing multiple profiles when doing Firefox/XULRunner based development (at least imo).

I'm able to move almost all of my firefox settings between 2 pc's and a laptop just through some careful forethought of what exists where (both during normal usage and during FEBE backups). Though I keep all my passwords & form data off the laptop in case I ever lose that at a gig...
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valis wrote:?

Did you have any idea what happened?
No idea at all, but it may have been nothing, I'm not sure. Since installing FF3 we've had problems with radio1 DJ sets sporadically cutting off & BBC1 sports highlights not streaming correctly (slow & jittery) which we never had a problem with before, but in retrospect this may just have been issues the BBC website was having, since they're in a constant state of flux over there. PlanetZ was also behaving very very slowly, but again this could just have been an issue with PlanetZ itself. In fact I think it was because Z was very slow again last night.

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Re: Enhancing your Firefox browsing 'experience'

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No problem, I wish there were similar tools available for IE browsers (not to mention free!)

Btw stardust just noticed your post count, puts mine to shame! :wink:
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Some add-ons I like to install, not previously mentioned in this topic:
Foxmarks: instant sync bookmarks on different boots/machines. Makes sure my laptop, desktop and work machines bookmarks are the same. Can also be consulted online, when working on other machines...
Fast Dial: replacement for the blank new page, showing a raster of selected favorites.
Fire.fm: for playing last.fm playlists.
Foxytunes: control almost any media player from the status bar.

IMHO, adblock plus and flashblock alone are worth using Firefox. Also, Opera users, did you know you can install these add-ons too? :)

PS: Gary, who owns the Operating System you're using? ;p
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thanks for the info atom.

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