Firefox tweaking for performance

[digitalwanderer]

I noticed this article over at ipKonfig getting shredded in the comments in the post at Warp2search about it, so naturally I had to check it out and try it.

It worked great! I can now browse whilst running Azureus full out as quickly as when I have Azureus shut down.

So it may be old news for some, but it was new to me and a cool new tweak so I thought I'd share it. You can check it out for yourself over at ipKonfig.

 

[silence]

just DL FireTune....http://www.totalidea.com/freestuff4.htm

 

[vb]

just DL FireTune....http://www.totalidea.com/freestuff4.htm

you know people run firefox on a bunch of different OS's, do you?

 

[Druga Runda]

did it, and wheeee....

speeded up considerably... hope the speedup stays here for long term... I am going to read now to find out why aren't those the default options...

so OK... only to cater for all users... and the difference seems to be soo huge at first, that I think it would have been good if they made two different FF's installs for download at the beginning, "narrowband" and "broadband" as this FF tweak really makes it a lot faster... I am impressed so far, just hope it lasts...

 

[digitalwanderer]

I know, ain't it cool?

I just felt bad for the guy who wrote up the article on it and got bashed so hard on Warp2search because some people had already heard of it.

If I didn't write, "what some other people had already know", as a criteria I would write very, VERY little!

 

[silence]

just DL FireTune....http://www.totalidea.com/freestuff4.htm

you know people run firefox on a bunch of different OS's, do you?

soooo...i shouldnt post tweaks that help speed up browser?

 

[Druga Runda]

I know, ain't it cool?

I just felt bad for the guy who wrote up the article on it and got bashed so hard on Warp2search because some people had already heard of it.

If I didn't write, "what some other people had already know", as a criteria I would write very, VERY little!

mah those bashers are lamers of "I knew it before you did, I feel so good about myself" category

 

[silence]

did it, and wheeee....

speeded up considerably... hope the speedup stays here for long term... I am going to read now to find out why aren't those the default options...

so OK... only to cater for all users... and the difference seems to be soo huge at first, that I think it would have been good if they made two different FF's installs for download at the beginning, "narrowband" and "broadband" as this FF tweak really makes it a lot faster... I am impressed so far, just hope it lasts...

well...as you say, they have to make defaults for everyone....
but FireTune really kicks in....

 

[Druga Runda]

did the tweak at work now doing it at home


edit: heh nice

 

[silence]

did the tweak at work now doing it at home


edit: heh nice

glad i helped...
i true extension junkie... and i love my Firefox to extent some people will call me zealot, but all the extensions and stuf...its simply fun for me...

extensionmirror has 600+ extensions....i go there at least once a week to see what going on....

if u wanna really crazy theme....check this -> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/marco/pimpzilla/

 

[DudeMiester]

Jebus! That is faster!

 

[silence]

Jebus! That is faster!

np. just ask if u need anything.....i am kinda known as extension freak around...

 

[Pete]

Weird. I tried this on a couple different PCs, and all it did was dramatically increase Firefox's memory usage.

 

[London Geezer]

I don't see much of an improvement with the tuner thing myself.
I'm on a 4Mb connection. Things were fast before and are still fast...

 

[silence]

I don't see much of an improvement with the tuner thing myself.
I'm on a 4Mb connection. Things were fast before and are still fast...

i noticed difference on 1.5, but basically cause it also changes order of things to render, so you get text then pics, which does make it look much faster....

as for other tweaks i already have all those network pipelining and other stuff tweaked....

 

[London Geezer]

I don't see much of an improvement with the tuner thing myself.
I'm on a 4Mb connection. Things were fast before and are still fast...

i noticed difference on 1.5, but basically cause it also changes order of things to render, so you get text then pics, which does make it look much faster....

as for other tweaks i already have all those network pipelining and other stuff tweaked....

I'll try to open sites like IGN tonight from home and see if it loads faster... That's one hell of a slow loader..

 

[DudeMiester]

I'm on 5Mbit connnection and I noticed, but then again I'm also on a router which slows things down a bit.

As for extensions, I know nothing about them. I tried that Pimp theme, which was pretty funky. Anyways, is there like an extension top 10 or something around?

 

[silence]

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/?os=Windows&application=firefox

biggest extension site : http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/

 

[DudeMiester]

Thanks a lot! Some of that stuff is pretty cool.