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Fasterfox has consistently been one of the regulars in the most popular extensions on the Firefox addons site. And with good reason, the speed increase using Firefox is tremendous.
Why?
When I initially used Fasterfox, it was one of the first plugins I installed on my Firefox and I didn't really stop to bother with it, apart from setting it to "Turbo" mode. Then, recently, I was forced to re-do my laptop from scratch (Windows kept BSODing on me with a DEP violation - I'd tell you more, but it would be both a digression and a discussion filled with jargonesque oddities). Imagine my surprise when my web surfing experience pretty much felt like I was crawling around like a hundred year old turtle northward bound on an expressway. I'd forgotten all about Faster fox and my browser was feeling really, really slow.
That's pretty much all I can say about Fasterfox. Gotta have it, gotta set it in Turbo mode and then you can forget all about it. It doesn't turn up much on the Firefox user interface (you can turn off the page load timer that appears on your status bar).
How?
There's not much UI to bother with, in Fasterfox. There's just this options screen which lets you choose what speed mode you want to operate Fasterfox in. Turbo gives the fastest experience but it does end up hammering the web server serving the site you're on, especially if you're a Ctrl + click link opening maniac like I am.
Click here to install faster fox
Adblock
Once installed, it's a snap to filter elements at their source-address.
Just right-click: Adblock: done. Filters use either the wildcard character (*)
or full Regular Expression syntax. Hit the status-element and see what has or
hasn't been blocked.
Works with:
Firefox 0.7 - 2.0.0.* ALL
Mozilla 1.4 - 1.8 ALL
Click here to install Adblock
Cooliris Previews
Cooliris Previews 2.1 for Firefox gives you the power to browse faster and send links instantly.
• Simply mouse over the Cooliris link icon, and a preview window will instantly appear to show you the underlying content. No more clicking back and both, or leaving your current page.
• To email a link instantly, just right-click on any web page.
• Right-click on any phrase to have Cooliris automatically do a subsearch in Google, Wikipedia, or a dictionary.
• Customize how and when you want the preview window to appear.
Cooliris Previews 2.1 does not contain any adware or spyware whatsoever.
Works with:
Firefox 1.0 - 3.0a1 ALL
Mozilla 1.7 - 1.8 ALL
click here to install cooliris
This next one is for the girls and boys mainly girls.
Colorful Tabs
The most beautiful yet the simplest add-on that makes a strong colorful appeal. Colors every tab in a different color and makes them easy to distinguish while beautifying the overall appearance of the interface. An essential.
Click here to install Colorful Tabs
Next
Here are some long parts to tweaking firefox to make it load pages faster and images
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Browsing super fast. To use them go to the search bar or address bar and type about:config
To edit settings bellow use these steps:
1. Open Mozilla FireFox
2. In the address bar type: about:config or aboutlugins for plugin paths
Below are tweaks, which categorised into each computer situation
**Quick Settings**
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.firstrequest", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", ;
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
These are settings that enable Pipelining which makes firefox do multiple data requests at once, which speed things up a bit and improves page time loads and images loading quicker.
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All Configurations
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", ;
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("plugin.expose_full_path", true);
user_pref("ui.submenuDelay", 0);
Fast Computer Fast Connection
user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 4;
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", ;
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);
Fast Computer Fast Connection
user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 4;
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", ;
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);
Fast Computer, not so fast connection
This configuration is more suited to people without ultra fast connections. We are not talking about dial up connections but slower DSL / Cable connections.
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 4;
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", ;
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);
Fast Computer, Slow Connection (dial-up)
user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);
user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 3000000);
user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 8191);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 32);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", ;
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", ;
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 4);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);
Slow Computer, Fast Connection
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 3000000);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 1000000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 1000000);
user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 4095);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 1000);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 4;
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", ;
user_pref("dom.disable_window_status_change", true);
Slow Computer, Slow Connection
We have entered the doldrums of the dial-up user
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 750);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 32);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", ;
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", ;
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 4);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_status_change", true);
More tweaks below
More extrema settings but can work both ways faster and slower
Just a heads up these settings make you download sites considerably faster, BUT they put a great deal of overload on the sites you visit
2) type in "about:config" the address bar and then hit enter
You'll see a whole load of options here you will need to change some of the values.
These ones:
network.http.max-connections = 64
network.http.max-connections-per-server= 20
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server= 10
network.http.pipelining = true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 100 or 200 (choose one)
nglayout.initialpaint.delay = 0
network.http.request.max-start-delay = 0
if you can't find "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" your going have to make it. Just right click and hit new integer.
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy = 10
network.http.proxy.pipelining = true
network.http.proxy.version = 1.0
now close down firefox and start it up again.
the settings with the *** in it seem to work the best but everyones pc is set up different and have different connection speeds broadband and so on. But i am posting them all as i said because different pc set up and different connection types require different set ups.
Well people theres a bit to keep you going for a bit will post more info soon as i am working on my website and doing many things am not going to be posting everything here i have for Firefox as a lot more about firefox and other things is whats going on my site.
Some more info will be posted here when i have chance but for now hope this little bit of info will keep you going for the time been.
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