All my email goes through the email servers at the uni in Oslo, so I generally have no problems at all, I just log in and open them in a browser. I made this post in another thread about browser slowing down from heavy load, so it is not dealing specifically with email issues, but rather the browser as a whole. I repost it here to show the links to modification HowTo's, for Firefox and it's relatives. The links are frequently updated, so don't care about the 2015 date in the links!
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Part of the problem is that many of you have a lot of bookmarks, open a lot of tabs, and want to have the services like using bookmarks and history to suggest completions to a site's address. If you have a browser with a status bar, you can see a lot of addresses fly by when you open a page, most of them totally unknown, but always Google analytics, there is an extension
NO google analytics to turn that off. You have automatic Health reports sent to Mozilla, telemetry, datareporting to services you never even heard about, storage of visited sites, automatic updates of add-ons and extensions, network prefetching sites based upon your browsing history, etcetera, etcetera...All those services are activated when you visit a new site.
So the question is, what do you want your browser to do for you?
Most problems can be eliminated by settings in
about:config. Don't be afraid to try, most setting have a Reset option in the menu.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Preferences
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/18/a-comp ... -settings/
http://12bytes.org/articles/tech/firefo ... ance-buffs
https://gecko.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ... ences.html
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/11/11/list-o ... eferences/
(I use the PaleMoon 27.2.1 right now, setup is the same via about:config)
My list of sites is a couple of years old, these sites are mostly updated every day.
A lot of reading, some of it has the potential to turn your hair gray over night...
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Before doing any serious work in about.config, make a backup copy of the /root/.mozilla directory, rename it with the date included, something like
11-05-17-dot-mozilla. The prefs are written to
prefs.js in the .mozilla dir, you may open it as text to browse the entries, but don't do any modifications directly into that file. You may use a text editor to write all your about:config mods to a
/root/.mozilla/user.js file
I use some tricks when I play around with about:config entries, some keyboard shortcuts to speed up the search for an entry's documentation:
Setting it up:
1) In Prefrences -> Tabs, activate
Insert related tabs next to current tab
2) In about:config, right-click
browser.search.openintab, choose
Toggle from the pop-up menu to set it to
true
Using it:
1) In about:config, right-click the entry you want to know more about, choose
Copy Name from the pop-up menu.
2) Press
Ctrl-K to activate, or mark old text, in the little search bar next to the address bar/urlbar.
3) Press
Ctrl-V to paste the copied entry name into the search bar
4) Press
Enter, or click the symbol in the search bar, to make a new tab with hits
5) Press
Ctrl-Tab to browse the tab with hits
I you don't like tabs, you could of course search by
Ctrl-V-pasting the entry name into the address bar/urlbar instead, after pressing
Ctrl-L to mark it, but you already knew that...
tallboy