How To Speed Up FireFox...

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by ANHEDONIC, Oct 15, 2005.

  1. ANHEDONIC

    ANHEDONIC Will Title For Food

    Granted my Firefox already loaded pages pretty fast. I've seen this link posted on a couple different forums and alot of people seem to be trying it and reporting positive results. So I gave it a try and it seems to work (although it's hard for me to discern a huge difference because my pages already loaded fast).

    Please do not try it if you have dialup

    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts
     
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  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    I did try that tweak on a clean install of FF, around the date of that post ( actually think it was that actual post I read in 04 ) but as its nearly a year old, I wonder if apps like Firetune do those edits for you?

    Still worth a try I'd say, if it speeds up FF then bonus :)
     
  3. star17

    star17 MajorGeek

  4. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

  5. Brandon

    Brandon controlmind

    Fasterfox is what I use, and it is faster then firetune :p


    Brandon
     
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  6. ANHEDONIC

    ANHEDONIC Will Title For Food

    crap... I should say, that tweak i posted is ONLY for BROADBAND users. Please do not try it if you have dialup. Could a mod maybe add that to my post (since i can't edit it)... Don't want to screw up anybody's browser.
     
  7. ANHEDONIC

    ANHEDONIC Will Title For Food

    thanks Kodo
     
  8. Brandon

    Brandon controlmind

    Phew...I was thinking about going to that link and edit the firefox prefrences etc...until kodo fixed it :) Thanks for the heads up.


    Brandon
     
    Last edited: Oct 15, 2005
  9. Stubby

    Stubby R.I.P. (September 3, 1949 - January 26, 2011)

    Thanks for the tip Star17!! Your right, 'Fasterfox' is ALOT faster than 'Firetune!' Now, MG loads in less than a second whereas before it took maybe 3 seconds to load. Okay, no big deal, but at least that proves it DOES speed up considerably. That's according to that little timer in the lower right hand corner of my monitor. Again, THANKS!!! :)
     

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