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FireFox has taken the net by storm since it first appeared on the scene. Nearly ever 'computer geek' now uses it as their primary browser. Extensions are a popular way to customize your FireFox. There are also some 'hacks' that you can do to improve preformance. We will cover some of them in this post.

Stopping Pop Up Ads in FireFox – This use to never be a problem but of late webmasters have been finding ways to sneak popups threw to FireFox try this to stop many of them.

Type about:config into the Firefox location bar.

Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer.

Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins

Set the value to 2.

Fix FireFox Flash Plug-in Memory Leak – If you have installed the Flash Plugin for your FireFox you are suffering a memory leak, do this to fix it.

Type about:config into the location bar and press enter

Right click any line to bring up a sub-menu

Choose "new">"integer"

Paste this into the dialogue that appears: browser.cache.memory.capacity

Next click Okay

Specify the amount in kb (about 60000 should do) in the next dialogue that appears
Restart Firefox

Some other various hacks (improve load times and general speed)

Type about:config in the address bar, Then look for the following
entries, and make the corresponding changes.

Find browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs and double click on it so
it = true

network.http.pipelining "true"
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 100
network.http.proxy.pipelining "true"
network.http.max-connections 60
network.http.max-connections-per-server 32
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 8

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 recieves.