Have you ever heard of the About in Firefox? To this question, many people could answer "yes", because in one way or another a large number of their users have tried to perform a certain number of modifications in the configuration of this Internet browser, requiring a specific function to be able to access said environment.
Despite the fact that someone may have used this Firefox "About" function very frequently, we are very sure that some few tips or tricks that can be done with it, they will not know. The reason for this post is to publicize all the magic it can do in Firefox, the different hidden functions that are housed within the About configuration in Mozilla's browser.
The most used About functions in Mozilla Firefox
We will start by mentioning two of the most used sequences in Mozilla Firefox, with regard to "About", which we could describe as follows:
- About: config
- About: blank
If we write to either of the two options in the address bar of the Mozilla Firefox browser we will have different types of results. In the first case we would be entering the configuration from this Internet browser; The second option, on the other hand, will help us to have a blank tab, which is used by some users when they want to capture a tool and place it on the empty browser window.
We will mention in this article some of the functions hidden in the Firefox configuration, as long as we have entered said environment using the first option. Will appear immediately a space where we must write a whole sequence, to which we will define them below.
Specialized functions inside About
Next we will mention a few functions that could be considered specialized in terms of the use of a few parameters, which are found within the Firefox configuration specifically, in the area of the «About: config«.
1. Open the new tabs at the end
When you find yourself working with a window in Mozilla Firefox and perform the key combination Alt + T (or by clicking the "+" button next to the current tab), a new tab will be created. It generally usually appears immediately after the one in which we are working. If you want him tonew tabs are always placed last you must search for the following key:
browser. tabs. insertRelatedAfterCurrent
It has a default value of «True«, Having to double click on it to change to«false«.
2. Have a preview of the tabs in Firefox
If you have used the Windows Alt + Tab function to interact between each of the windows that the applications run, then you may want to have the same function with the tabs in your Firefox browser. This means that using the key combination CTRL + Tab We can start navigating between each of these tabs but with a «preview». To do this, we must locate the following key:
browser.ctrlTab.previews
By default the value that this key will be in «false«, Having to double click to change to«true«.
3. Load to pages much faster
Undoubtedly this is going to be one of the favorites of many although, it must be anticipated that in order to use this function it will take a lot of bandwidth. We only have to look for the key:
network.prefetch-next
We will be able to notice that it has a default value of "true", and must change it to "false". If you have a slow Internet connection, we do not recommend using this parameter.
4. Improve network performance
There are two parameters that could be modified for this purpose, although for a moment we will mention the one that is generally available in the Firefox configuration:
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server
When you find it, you will notice that its default value is «6«, Having change it to 7 or 8 as maximum value.
At the moment we have offered four unique tips although, in a later installment we will mention more tricks about this same function of the About: config that we have suggested to handle (with care) in Mozilla Firefox.