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Disable DNS caching in Firefox

17th March 2012
Many times I have noticed Firefox spends quite a while "looking up" stuff when on the same system other programs are a lot faster to resolve.
Now I think I have found the culprit, actually Manu has found it:
Firefox seems to mantain its own DNS cache which apparently, contrary to its purpose, can slow things down if your ISP provides fast resolving server or if you run your own locally.
Anyway, this is the case for me so I followed Manu's advice and disabled DNS caching in Firefox and as a result average browsing experience does seem faster. How about that ...
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"Fixing" Firefox

4th January 2015
For quite some time now Firefox has a shitty behaviour regarding the address bar, which may be OK for grandma, but it gets in the way of power users.
I was too lazy to do anything about it until now, but it's 2015, I am getting old and less tolerant, so here are my pet peeves:
A - modify urls that do not look like traditional addresses and add a www prefix and .com suffix
B - send a single word address to a google search instead of opening it (kills internal addresses such as "http://wiki")
C - the protocol gets hidden, but when you copy/paste the url from the address bar it gets included, e.g. I copy "www.nux.ro", but when I paste it in an editor it actually comes up as "http://www.nux.ro"


So here's how to fix it - open a new tab, go to "about:config" and:
- to fix A search for "browser.fixup.alternate.enabled" and double click it so the value changes to "false"
- to fix B search for "keyword.enabled" and double click it so the value changes to "false"
- to fic C search for "browser.urlbar.trimURLs" and double click it so the value changes to "false"


That's it. Now you can enjoy a better browsing experience! ;-)
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