Robsta.id.au » Mozilla

Firefox bug: I’m Feeling Lucky

robsta — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:51:00 +0000

A bug in Firefox that annoys the absolute shit out of me can be found here. This bug has proven to be not Mozilla’s fault, but rather Google’s as the search engine giant redirects clients to useless websites. When an invalid URL or search query is entered into Firefox’s address bar, Google is called to do a “I’m Feeling Lucky” search. This used to work for me and it still does for others. But a small fraction of users either get directed straight to Microsoft.com or for me BuyDomains (I aint linking cause I hate this f*cking website). If your using Firefox, see what happens (incorrect url) to yourself. The only fix at the moment is to change Google from your default search engine.

Spread Firefox Effort

robsta — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:09:00 +0000

The Spread Firefox (SFX) marketing effort has been enormously successful since it’s conception. It now houses over 10 ‘marketing’-related projects (even though a few projects foster the community development).

Those that use FireFox as their browser of choice should consider leaving feedback on Download.com. According to SFX it takes less than 2 minutes.

I’ve been an active member of the community for quite some time now. One of the added-bonuses of signing up to SFX is that you get a drupal ID that can be used on any participating Drupal site. Mine is robsta@www.spreadfirefox.com:8080.

FireFox Speed Tweak

robsta — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:40:08 +0000

If your using Mozilla FireFox I found a method on the internet to increase surfing times. If your not using FireFox I strongly suggest you upgrade.

Steps

Start FireFox
Type “about:config” in the address bar
Find the following options, double-click to alter their value(s).

```
network.http.max-connections: 48
```

network.http.max-connections-per-server: 24

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy: 12

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server: 6

```
network.http.pipelining: true
```
```
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 32
```
```
network.http.proxy.pipelining: true
```

Thats It! Speed changes may take a while to come into affect.

My Net Combo

robsta — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 01:25:46 +0000

My Internet and Email combination.

Subscribing to my Blog

robsta — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 22:46:14 +0000

You can subscribe to this blog, if you use an Atom reader (see atomenabled.org) or Mozilla Firefox 1.0 with the new live bookmarks feature.

Subscribing in Firefox 1.0 PR.

Browser Stats

robsta — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:49:05 +0000

Mozilla’s recent marketing effort launched alongside the release of Firefox 1.0PR – has hit the 1 million downloads milestone in less than 10 days.

The marketing effort otherwise known as Spread Firefox (or sfx) uses a number of techniques to increase the market share of Mozilla’s technology-leading browser.

The browser statistics for my website (Robsta.id.au) can be seen below.

Currently Internet Explorer holds the largest share at 51% of hits. I hope to increase the share of Firefox to over 50%. Internet Explorer has dominated for too long!