Homepage New Tab - New Tab Home Page
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/homepage-new-tab
DownThemAll - Download Manager
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall
FlashBlock - Block Annoying Flash Ads
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock
LastPass - Password Manager
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lastpass-password-manager
FireFTP - Low-Overhead FTP Client and a Button for the Tool Bar
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fireftp
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fireftp-button
Firebug - HTML Troubleshooting
To keep the cursor focus from jumping to the address bar:
about:config
in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the riskhandoff
and pause while the list is filtered.browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar
preference to switch the value from true to false
Disable Use hardware acceleration when available
for a user:
Firefox → Options → Advanced → deselect the option Use hardware acceleration when available
--disable-gpu
This is very important for RDS servers.
The mozilla.cfg file needs to start with a comment line since this line will be skipped.
// place this file, including comments, in the installation directory with firefox.exe // Smooth Scrolling Disabled lockPref("general.smoothScroll", false); // Disable GPU hardware accelleration lockPref ("gfx.direct2d.disabled", true); lockPref ("layers.acceleration.disabled", true);
// place this file in the defaults/pref subfolder of the installation directory pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0); pref("general.config.filename", "mozilla.cfg");