I recently played on a modded server, and after fixing the usual annoyances that come from doing that, I discovered that I could not see what I was typing into the chat interface unless it was at the end of the game while the scores/stats were showing. After some searching of my multi-player .cfg files, I discovered an entry that with some tweaking fixed the problem. So here is the short version:

Open your game. Before entering play, open the console (you must have the console enabled first in the game options) by typing the tilde, it looks like this: ~

Just press the shift key and the button under the Esc key.

Now type "cg_hudChatPosition 5 204" without the quotes. Restart your game, and now the chat thingy will be fixxored.

Speed up Firefox: If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by default, it's optimized for dialup connections). Here's how:

Type about:config into the address bar and hit return. Type network.http in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):

• Set network.http.pipelining to true.
• Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true.
• Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
• Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it englayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0".

This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

NEXT To stop pages from stealing your cursor when they load (I hate when they do that) Create a new text file named "user" with notepad, but save it with the extension .js instead of .txt, i.e. "user.js". In this file, add these lines:

user_pref("capability.policy.policynames", "nofocus"); user_pref("capability.policy.nofocus.sites", "http://www.yahoo.com"); user_pref("capability.policy.nofocus.HTMLInputElement.focus", "noAccess"); In that example I am targeting yahoo. If you need more, just alter the line where Yahoo appears to read as such: user_pref("capability.policy.nofocus.sites", "http://www.yahoo.com", "http://someothersite.com", "http://andthissitealso.com");

Now copy this file into this path: C:Documents and Settings[Your user profile name]Application DataMozillaFirefoxProfiles

Good luck :)