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 Post subject: How To: Speed up firefox
PostPosted: 30 May 2007, 16:33 
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I use IE almost all the time, last time I tried firefox it hated me. But im giving it a second chance.

If you have a faster internet connection (avoid this if your dial up or somthing) I found these tweaks really make things go along faster.

I use Verizon Fios 15mb/s down 2mb/s up for reference.

1.Type “about:configâ€

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 Post subject: How To: Speed up firefox
PostPosted: 30 May 2007, 16:47 
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Dude, you are my biggest friend. I was really getting pissed of latelly on how slow pages loaded for me but this solved it. I absolutelly fly across the net now. :P

I bow for you my friend. :bowdown


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 Post subject: How To: Speed up firefox
PostPosted: 30 May 2007, 16:53 
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Cool, glad it was of some use.

IE7 is still just as fast for me, I know im baised since thats the only browser I have used for a long time, so im opening every page on both of them to compare lol.

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 Post subject: How To: Speed up firefox
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Well, the only decent browsers that I have are Safari and Firefox of witch I find Firefox the best. Safari does load pages faster though but now that isn't the fact anymore. :P Firefox just became a whole lot better. :P


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 Post subject: How To: Speed up firefox
PostPosted: 30 May 2007, 17:58 
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I have no where near your connection speed ... but I can see a difference ... thanks buddy ... 8)


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 Post subject: How To: Speed up firefox
PostPosted: 30 May 2007, 20:53 
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Holy crap you have FiOS.

Anyway this worked pretty good, I'm using Verizon DSL at 768kbs and I'm speeding along like never before!

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 Post subject: How To: Speed up firefox
PostPosted: 30 May 2007, 21:04 
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Theres also a firefox addon that does this for you its called Faster Fox and it works just as good and is simple to use.


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 Post subject: How To: Speed up firefox
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Theres also a firefox addon that does this for you its called Faster Fox and it works just as good and is simple to use.

I don't know about you, but FasterFox made my internet surfing experience SLOW AS HELL.

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 Post subject: How To: Speed up firefox
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yea i knew about the pipelining parts i did that a while ago and noticed a slight speed increase now ill have to try the final one... im surprised i didnt think of posting the pipelining thing here...

There is a noticeable speedup for me :D

My broadband connection scored this after mods... speed tests dont change much from these but overall page response and loading does


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 Post subject: How To: Speed up firefox
PostPosted: 31 May 2007, 04:07 
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This wont change your speed test results at all. It has to do with how you connect to a web page.

I ran a speakeasy test earlier today and got 147xx mb/s down and 17xx mb/s up. Thats really close to what I am supposed to get so I cant complane.

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