Play with your computer !!!: Tutorial : How to Get Back Firefox 3.5 Session Restore Page & 3 way to speed up firefox 3.5.2

Firefox 3.5 has got many new features like HTML5 support, location awareness browsing etc. There are several other minor enhancement are present in Firefox 3.5 like enhanced session restore.
In old version of Firefox we have absolutely no control over session restore, Firefox attempt to restore all the webpages which was open before Firefox was crashed however in Firefox 3.5 restore session has been enhancement to let the users to select pages which they wish to restore.

Session Restore in Firefox 3.5

It may happen that after checking and unchecking webpages from session restore list you may accidentally click on “Start New Session” instead “Restore” button and once you click on Start New Session button you will be presented with clean Firefox session and will lose the opportunity to restore your old session since there is no menu option to get back Session Restore page.
Well there is way to get back Session Restore page manually by typing follow special URLs at address bar and press enter.
about:sessionrestore
about Session Restore

So the next time when you accidentally click on wrong button use above special URL to get back session restore page.
Note: It doesn’t start with http://, you can type in existing open Firefox window or start new Firefox instance and type above special URL to access session restore page.

3 Ways to Speed Up Firefox 3.5

Firefox 3.5 release show the new version to be significantly faster than its predecessors, but still slower than Google Chrome.
Here are a few tips that can dramatically increase the speed of a slow Firefox 3.5:
Change maximum number of requests If you’re using a broadband connection, chances are that you can speed up Firefox by allowing it to perform multiple simultaneous requests to Web pages instead of performing one request at a time. To do this, type about:config in the URL bar (where you would normally enter a Web address) then look for the following entries, and make these changes:

network.http.pipelining – set this to “true”
network.http.proxy.pipelining – set this to “true”
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests – set the integer value to 20
network.dns.disableIPv6 – set this to “false”

Quit then re-launch Firefox after making these changes.
Reduce history Having tons of items stored in history can slow down Firefox’s launch and operation speed significantly. Navigate to Tools > Options, then click on the “Privacy” tab. The default setting is 90 days. Reducing this number to 5 or 10 days can result in a substantial performance boost.
Remove extensions and themes then re-add them, one by one Some extensions and/or themes may conflict with Firefox 3.5 or cause performance issues. You can isolate the problematic items and eliminate them permanently by uninstalling all of them then adding them back one by one to identify the culprit(s). Follow these steps, as published on MozillaZine.