Easy Install eyoungren's TenFourFox Tweaks (Download)

[ryannel2003]

Followed these steps and downloaded the .js file and quite a difference in speed so far already. I also turned off the rich text editing and can now type on the forum without the lag! Thanks for all the suggestions. Really makes my iMac G4 much more useable on the internet and that makes me happy

 

[Ih8reno]

Nevermind I found it. It works well!! Thanks

Where is this option?

 

[jbarley]

Where is this option?

Top menubar, under your user name - Preferences - Turn off Rich text Editor.

 

[MacCubed]

Yeah it really helps, I feel like I'm typing on my MacBook Pro, but I'm on a PowerBook G4

 

[eyoungren]

The workaround is BBCode. If you learn the codes you can format the text as you type.

 

[Ih8reno]

much better! thanks for the tips

 

[flyrod]

What's the easiest way to experiment with different firefox setups? Create a new user and switch between users maybe? Or switch out ~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/ with different versions?

 

[Dannyshing27]

I took must add my thanks for the hard work gone in to this file. I was considering swapping out my G5 and my Tibook at work but now I no longer need to.

 

[Altemose]

I updated the easy installer to include all of the new tweaks that @eyoungren and @556fmjoe discovered in the tweak thread.

 

[Altemose]

Easy installation file has been updated with the latest of @eyoungren's findings as of 8/12/15. The file works great with TenFourFox 38.2.

 

[eyoungren]

What's the easiest way to experiment with different firefox setups? Create a new user and switch between users maybe? Or switch out ~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/ with different versions?

I totally missed your post, so I'll tell you what I do. I use Firefox profiles.

Create a profiles.ini file (essentially a text file). The least command you want in it is this:

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=0

This tells Firefox to NOT start with the last profile which will cause it to pop up a profile creation box. You can create new profiles from there.

If you want to use different profiles with different versions you can do that. Just load the appropriate profile for the version you open. Just be careful you don't load a profile for a version of T4Fx you don't intend to use it in.

Here's my profiles.ini file.

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=0

[Profile0]
Name=No Extensions
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/844wx62u.No Extensions

[Profile1]
Name=No Proxys
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/5i0fhyq1.No Proxys
Default=1

[Profile2]
Name=Testing
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/u9aj3glg.Testing

 

[bunnspecial]

Thank you both for taking the time to put this together!

As an immediate improvement, I noticed that scrolling(even on a script-heavy page) no longer pegs all four cores in my Quad like a stock TFF install.

 

[eyoungren]

Thank you both for taking the time to put this together!

As an immediate improvement, I noticed that scrolling(even on a script-heavy page) no longer pegs all four cores in my Quad like a stock TFF install.

Awesome! Good to hear!

There are some scrolling tweaks in about:config if you are interested in looking that help a bit too. Just search for "scroll" or "smooth" and look for the combination of the two words. Turn off every instance of smooth scrolling you find.

CPU always takes a slight hit when it comes to smooth scrolling because that takes a small amount of processing power to make it smooth.

For me, I understand the concept of smooth scrolling but I hate it. It always seems artificial to me so I've always turned it off. The upshot has always been decreased CPU processing time.

 

[Altemose]

I added a note to the first post of this page that I recommend all users read.

 

[SecretSquirrel]

Many thanks for compiling all these tweaks into one file. I had worked through each tweak in the about:config tab but for some reason just applying the prefs.js file has worked much better - the browser is definitely quicker than when I applied each tweak manually. The only thing I can think of is that some of Erik's tweaks weren't available in later TFF releases but applying them regardless by swapping the prefs.js file has changed something for the better. Happy days!

 

[Altemose]

Many thanks for compiling all these tweaks into one file. I had worked through each tweak in the about:config tab but for some reason just applying the prefs.js file has worked much better - the browser is definitely quicker than when I applied each tweak manually. The only thing I can think of is that some of Erik's tweaks weren't available in later TFF releases but applying them regardless by swapping the prefs.js file has changed something for the better. Happy days!

The only other possibility I can think of is that I did not include some of eyoungren's tweaks if they were more to do with user preference rather than speed. Perhaps one of them was causing your issue.

 

[eyoungren]

As I mentioned in my tweak/addon thread, there are some tweaks that do not exist in a stock install. They have to be created.

This was true in Firefox 3/Netscape when my quest first started and it's been true all the way up to the latest TenFourFox version. There are very few T4Fx specific tweaks.

 

[Gamer9430]

Working great on my 12in PowerBook! Thanks again @Altemose and @eyoungren for all the work that went into making this file and discovering all these tweaks to make browsing faster!

 

[SkyBell]

Finally got around to trying this out on my eMac, and everything is, dare I say it, a bit snappier! Thank you so much! I've read through the tweaks and addons thread, but considering the almost complete lack of knowledge I have concerning web browsers and coding topics in general, I never wanted to mess around with it, lest I screw up everything entirely forever.

Top menubar, under your user name - Preferences - Turn off Rich text Editor.

I would like to do this myself, but I am unsure of what you mean by "under the username". I've looked everywhere in TFF preferences, and see nothing referring to a rich text editor.

 

[Dronecatcher]

I would like to do this myself, but I am unsure of what you mean by "under the username". I've looked everywhere in TFF preferences, and see nothing referring to a rich text editor.

That's the preferences on the Macrumors site only - not in TFF

 

[MacCubed]

Click your username in the top right corner then go to preferences, and turn off "Rich Text Editor"

 

[SkyBell]

Click your username in the top right corner then go to preferences, and turn off "Rich Text Editor"

That's the preferences on the Macrumors site only - not in TFF

...Well don't I feel silly now.

 

[Altemose]

I am happy to report that the Easy Installer has been updated with all essential tweaks from @eyoungren's thread as of 12/21/15. Merry Christmas!

 

[WinstonE]

Many thanks for this. While I probably could do the tweaks individually, right now I just don't have time to work through it.

One hiccup: the "Back" button on my browser now will only go back one page. It then greys out. History is still held under the History menu, so I have a workaround. Any thoughts as to what might have caused this? The suggestion I have is to reset TenFourFox and reinstall all my add-ons, but I'd prefer not to do that if there is any easy fix.

Thanks.

- Winston

 

[eyoungren]

Many thanks for this. While I probably could do the tweaks individually, right now I just don't have time to work through it.

One hiccup: the "Back" button on my browser now will only go back one page. It then greys out. History is still held under the History menu, so I have a workaround. Any thoughts as to what might have caused this? The suggestion I have is to reset TenFourFox and reinstall all my add-ons, but I'd prefer not to do that if there is any easy fix.

Thanks.

- Winston

Winston, that's an effect of my tweaks. That particular setting stores two states. The page you are currently on and the page you came from. The reasoning is that doing so saves memory because the browser is not holding more than two pages in memory.

Here is the setting to change that: browser.sessionhistory.max_entries

Go into about:config and find that setting. Double click on the number (should be 2 as that is my setting) and change it to reflect the number of pages back you want to store. I believe the default is 100 (or something like that).

Welcome to MacRumors, by the way!