Tried out the new build of Google Chrome today… darn that thing is fast, but I just cannot live without my FF extensions.

So in my quest to make Firefox 3.0 a better browser (oh 3.1, when are you coming out?), here are some tweaks that seems to provide a perceptive improvement in my browsing experience.

Speed tips from Universe Firefox :

1. Open Firefox, and type about:config in the address bar. Don’t worry about the warning that comes out.
2. Use the filter above to find network.http.pipelining and set it to True by double clicking on it.
3. Create a new boolean value named network.http.pipelining.firstrequest and set that to True, as well.
4. Find network.http.pipelining.maxrequests, double click on it, and change its value to 8.
5. Now look for network.http.proxy.pipelining and again set it to True.
6. Create two new integers named nglayout.initialpaint.delay and content.notify.interval, setting them to 0.
7. Now restart your browser and check a few heavy-loading websites to see if those changes worked or not.

Enable colour management for Firefox, from Lifehacker (warning, might slow FF instead) :

If the digital photo you just uploaded looks washed out on Flickr compared to in your desktop image editor, that’s because Firefox 3’s advanced color profile support isn’t turned on. To enable it, type about:config in Firefox 3’s address bar, then click the "I’ll be careful, I promise!" button. Then, in the Filter field, type gfx.color_management.enabled and set that value to true (its default value is false). Restart Firefox. From there on in, your photo colors will be richer than they were. Why isn’t this value true by default? Well, according to Mozilla, you’ll see a 10-15% performance hit using this setting, but if you’ve got a reasonably fast machine, it’ll be worth the better-looking photos. Hit the link below for an extended explanation of Firefox’s color profile support.