Speed Up FireFox...

VR3
VR3 Posts: 28,776
edited March 2024 in Clubhouse Archives
http://forevergeek.com/open_source/make_firefox_faster.php

Seems to work...
- Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • gatemplin
    gatemplin Posts: 1,595
    edited December 2004
    Works well for me. Thanks for the linky Sid.
    Graham
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited December 2004
    Hey, it worked! Thats pretty cool. Thanks for the tip Sid.
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  • RobXant
    RobXant Posts: 201
    edited December 2004
    Slick- Thanks!
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  • petrym
    petrym Posts: 1,912
    edited December 2004
    Kewl... :D
    I prefer Firefox over IE. IE sometimes balks at some sites, but Ff goes right in without a fault.
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited January 2005
    With IE I also used about a dozen pop up blockers and still had pop ups constantly! With Firefox, I use zero blockers and in the 4-5 weeks Ive been using this I have yet to have a single pop up!!
    polkaudio sound quality competitor since 2005
    MECA SQ Rookie of the Year 06 ~ MECA State Champ 06,07,08,11 ~ MECA World Finals 2nd place 06,07,08,09
    08 Car Audio Nationals 1st ~ 07 N Georgia Nationals 1st ~ 06 Carl Casper Nationals 1st ~ USACi 05 Southeast AutumnFest 1st

    polkaudio SR6500 --- polkaudio MM1040 x2 -- Pioneer P99 -- Rockford Fosgate P1000X5D
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  • dlew308
    dlew308 Posts: 530
    edited January 2005
    Also set:
    browser.turbo.enabled to true
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  • avelanchefan
    avelanchefan Posts: 2,401
    edited January 2005
    LOVE FF,

    Sid thanks for the speed up link...it worked like a charm.
    Sean
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    PSN---->Floppa
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited January 2005
    Some other information as well for FF:

    You can speed up the loading of Firefox on Windows XP by adding it to the programs that XP "prefetches."

    To do this, right-click the Start Menu item for Firefox, or any icon you use to start Firefox, and open the Properties dialog box. Add a space plus /Prefetch:1 to the command line and click OK. The resulting line might look as follows:

    "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" /Prefetch:1

    A detailed explanation of XP's prefetch feature is provided by TechRepublic.

    I also had a gripe about the opening of links such as audiogon pictures that woule open new browser windows, so I changed the setting that affects that. THe only problem with that is it doesn't differentiate between a pic link (similar) to something like a new link (Sid's inital post for example) so when I clicked on Sid's link above, it took me out of CP.
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited January 2005
    Few more links...... (pasted from a website)

    I haven't even touched in this article on several free, third-party extensions to Firefox that I believe are great enhancements. For a description, see my Nov. 23 Datamation column on
    Getting The Most Out of Firefox.

    Finally, an excellent resource on Firefox annoyances and fixes is Michael Horowitz's always-entertaining Web site, ComputerGripes.com. His site features several pages on Firefox behaviors, good and bad, many of which have been fixed with the release of version 1.0 gold. He also criticizes several other Web sites that need programming improvements to work well with Firefox.
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  • dlew308
    dlew308 Posts: 530
    edited January 2005
    AdBlcok is a great extension to install
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited January 2005
    I downloaded that too, but when you go to some of the sites to get an updated list of the extentions to block, there are so many variations that it makes it hard to differentiate between what is and is not a more complete or weeded out type of list.
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  • dlew308
    dlew308 Posts: 530
    edited January 2005
    Use a wildcard
    Like http://ads*
    :)
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited January 2005
    I thought this thing had been out longer. It says it was only released November 9.

    Hmm, I couldve sworn Id had it for months.
    polkaudio sound quality competitor since 2005
    MECA SQ Rookie of the Year 06 ~ MECA State Champ 06,07,08,11 ~ MECA World Finals 2nd place 06,07,08,09
    08 Car Audio Nationals 1st ~ 07 N Georgia Nationals 1st ~ 06 Carl Casper Nationals 1st ~ USACi 05 Southeast AutumnFest 1st

    polkaudio SR6500 --- polkaudio MM1040 x2 -- Pioneer P99 -- Rockford Fosgate P1000X5D
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,776
    edited January 2005
    I havnt had an Ad yet on FF...
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • dlew308
    dlew308 Posts: 530
    edited January 2005
    Vr3MxStyler2k3: the banner ads on the pages, not the popups....Makes visiting sites like techbargains.com load faster
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