FasterFox – Tweak Your Firefox To Be Faster

Friday 21 October 2005 @ 3:06 pm

Fasterfox Okay, we know Firefox just surpassed the 100 Million Downloads and still celebrating. This means the number of Firefox users is increasing rapidly. For sure, among all Firefox users, there will be some who don’t satisfy with the browser speed in rendering (displaying) the webpage. Not to mention, Firefox competitor, Opera claims to have faster page displaying speed compared to Firefox.

Hence, Mozilla Development Community of Mozilla Corp. has taken care of the needs from need-for-speed people by introducing a performance and network tweaks plugin for Firefox, named Fasterfox.

This plugin smartly prefetch links resides in the webpage that you are browsing and utilize the idle bandwidth by caching all the links. Besides, it tweaks the network connection to the server such as establishing simultaneous connections to the server (instead of the number set by default), pipelining, etc. Basically, the latter feature can be done manually, but since there is this useful available, why not install it? :)

Well, other than making the page rendering speed faster, the plugin provides you a Page Load Timer, which shows you the time taken to load the page fully in millisecond. This timer gives you a better idea of how fast before and after you tweak your Firefox. Cool !

Last but not least, it blocks popups too.

Click here to install Fasterfox 0.7.8 now.
*You need Firefox 1.0 – 1.5 Beta 2.
To check the version you are using, click Help at the toolbar, then select About Mozilla Firefox.

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4 Responses to 'FasterFox – Tweak Your Firefox To Be Faster'

mahagurusia - October 22nd, 2005 at 11:17 am
Not related. Thks Bryan for visiting my site via pps. And do you mind if I link you up on my site, you will be added to my clit clit menu! Beside I need some technical person to help me out on my blog from time to time, ie. I need freebie advice, ha! Thanks again and great site!! :)
SapiensBryan - October 22nd, 2005 at 11:37 am
Hi,

I will be more than happy to allow you linking to my site. :)

I can be contacted via the contact shown on the sidebar. If it’s within my ability, wish I could help.
93~94 - October 22nd, 2005 at 11:25 pm
Bryan, very good blog exp on IT
SapiensBryan - October 23rd, 2005 at 12:21 am
Oh, thanks a lot, 93~94.

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