Fresh Firefox: First Steps?

We all probably have favorite tweaks or setups for Firefox. Here’s a quick list of what I do after a fresh install. Heck, usually I’ll do these things before having browsed to a page yet.

Visit Preferences, go to “Tabs” section and check the box for “Always show the tab bar”
Whilst still in Preferences, set the

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Firefox 2 Beta 2 – A bit longer look

Had a quick post up yesterday announcing the release of Firefox 2 beta 2. When I first played with the earlier beta 1 things were pretty horrible, but I managed to talk myself into having a run at this latest beta last night. I’ve since used all of this day, both for

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Small Firefox Tweak for the Slower Machines

I’ve largely moved all my IM stuff over to meebo for the past few weeks. I like it, it works well and it’s nicely suited to the number of machines I use. In fact, at home, I tend to have it running on my little Xubuntu laptop. (which is much more useful

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Quick Firefox tweak – free mem

I’ve groused in the past about how much memory browsers seem to want to hoard these days. I’m a bit of a fanatic about memory usage, to be honest. I really like how Opera will release memory when it is minimized. When you restore it, it just grabs what it needs.

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