Ever since its debut, Firefox has garnered a reputation for being an enormously customizable program, both through its add-on architecture and its internal settings. In fact, many of Firefox’s ...

The Firefox Web browser, built by the Mozilla Foundation and friends is a complicated piece of technology—if you care to look under the hood. It's not obvious where the hood catch is, because the ...

An example of config.trim_on_minimize at work. The top shot of Task Manager shows Firefox’s memory consumption while minimized with trim_on_minimize turned on. The bottom Task Manager shows Firefox, ...

Firefox doesn't get enough love these days, but it's still the most customizable browser around thanks the numerous options in about:config. Here are 10 under-the-hood Firefox tweaks you should try ...

Unbeknownst to many users, Firefox has a whole host of application settings (called preferences) that aren’t found under the regular Options or Preferences interface. These preferences, both hidden ...

FireFox about:config stores the browser configurations. To access them , simply enter about:config in the address bar and hit “Enter”. Last week I shared a quick tip on tweaking FireFox spell checking ...

Tweaking the About:config page is a great way to make Firefox look and behave the way you want it to, but if you're not too comfortable digging around in a table full of options, or you'd rather have ...

Like most modern browsers, Firefox uses a cache folder to save content items that it has downloaded from the Web. You may wish to change the folder or drive that ...