Faster browsing with Firefox

[rushabht]

To start:
Open Firefox.
Type "about:config" in the adress bar.
Find these options, double click each one and change to below values:

network.http.max-connections: 48

network.http.max-connections-per-server: 24

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy: 12

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server: 6

network.http.pipelining: true

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 16

network.http.proxy.pipelining: true

After changing the values just close Firefox and open it again.

Some people told that these setting may hammer some servers.
Changing the "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to max of 8 will probably solve the problem.
(reduced to 16 from 32)

[amitagarwal]

another way is to use the firefox extension

https://update.mozilla.org/extension...id=327&vid=989

this is a good set of tweaks there buddy.congrats for the share

Firefox is good or bad if compared with IE
what about popups
and also tell which version is latest

Go to http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ and read up there, everything that you've asked for is answered on the site.

you can spoof firefox in the same way as opera - there's an extension specifically for that - although hotmail works perfectly on firefox - in fact it works even better than IE cuz all the ads are blocked

IF U WROTE ALL THAT BY YOURSELF THEN HATS TO U MY FRIEND...NICE WORK

Guys..........Just try Opera............

Wow.........max. viewable area........very good download maager........lightweight and so fast........i have tested IE, Mozilla, Netscape & Opera..........

1) Opera
2) Mozilla
3) Netscape
4) IE

[deadman]

Firefox 1.o is the latest...it has a built in popup ad blocker....it r0x whn comapred with IE....

thanks rushabt, tried thses

actually FF is marginally slower than IE without the quick load feature on

thanks for the tip m8 , browsing is faster now

on a different note , i noticed that the firefox cache is empty after every restart . is there a way to disable emptying cache ?

all welcomed....btw firefox rulez! it feels sick to surf with internet explorer now!

the_last_rites: firefox is faster than ie even without tweaks.

Firefox is good and fast. I am using ver1.0 .

thnx man can this be done to flash games

[amitagarwal]

Please tell more about firefox is it easy because i find ie easy
and also popup blocker if i have to block particular site and not to block particular site can it be configure

I have used only IE till now if u can post 1 screenshot of firefox it will be nice.
I mean to know how it looks and to know menus.
thanks

[hellfire]

This is a tip for saving flash animations from webpages in Firefox. Open the page and right click anywhere on the page. Click on "View Page Info". Open the "Media" tab that will list all multimedia files on that page. Find the media file of your choice and save it at a convenient location .

To convert it to an executable file, download standalone SaFlash Player. Open the swf file in the flash player and create projector file!
To make smaller sized exe files, you can also compress the SaFlash Player using exe compressors for Win32 like Aspack and use the compressed flash player to create the projector file.

[hellfire]

thnx man can this be done to flash games

Afaik flash games embedded as swf files in the webpage can also be saved as completely functional exe files. I'm not sure abut the legal issues involved though. Most probably, if the page itself does not provide the game for download then saving it by a circuitous method like this would be illegal in the strict sense.

[Aces170]

Watever If can do it(save the games as standalone exe's)
I gonna do it

From what I have noticed - there is not much of a difference in speeds, between Firefox and Ol' IE, where FF wins is the features it provides. Tabbed Browsing and the works, added to that there is a considerable increase in screen real estate too...

IE suks compared to Firefox... Too many vulnerabilities...
Also the extensions of FF are too good.. best its open source so any defect would be corrected imeediately.

I agree though after SP2 its a bit better but on old systems like win 9X n win 2k it still sucks big time.It looks like slowly IE is gonna b phased out & Microsoft needs to do something really magical to stop that

[Radon]

thats new info.... uptill now i used to do it this way....

Press CTRL+U
Press CTRL+F
Search for "SWF"
and then u'll get the URL.

[~HeadShot~]

thats new info.... uptill now i used to do it this way....

Press CTRL+U
Press CTRL+F
Search for "SWF"
and then u'll get the URL.

Same Here m8.
I used to hunt in da source code of da cartoon network webpages for the Delphi or Flash games, then d/l them using import web wizard in MS frontpage.

Ahhh! the good old days............

[prashantrana]

More than speed there were security issues like about:blank hijack adware, it was very difficult to unistall without the help of third party utilities, i guess it is good for them that people still use IE. So having FF means less porn popups, dialers, cookies, adware getting installed. But the real test is coming for FF, One security hole has already been found, so get your Firefox update.



Tabbed browsing is one of the features not available in IE, (But opera started it first). Themes, extensions, there is so much you can do with FF. Also the main problem with IE its ability to run with non-standard w3c pages, whereas firefox wants (and the whole community) that there should be one standard. That is why there are so many incompatible sites with ff, opera, etc.. Well even ff's own homepage is not absolute compatible as they allow users to edit the html of the pages where people still use bad coding.

http://validator.w3.org/

you can check websites there.

ALso opera has a feature with which we can spoof which browser we are using. Previously when anyone used to visit hotmail he used to get an error saying the browser is incompatible. You change your option to show it as IE and then hotmail would open. So that meant there was nothing wrong with the browser but only microsoft.

So these are some issues which made relevance in people moving away from IE. And we would not been able to see IE7 till longhorn was developed but due to ff bill gates has preponed the launch of IE7 alone.

See when you use IE there are some holes there for a hacker to access your computer and microsoft did not fixed them. So one could keep on using IE and stay happy with all the porn stuff we get or switch to firefox.

[prashantrana]

you can spoof firefox in the same way as opera - there's an extension specifically for that - although hotmail works perfectly on firefox - in fact it works even better than IE cuz all the ads are blocked

Here it is if anyone wants to use it

http://www.chrispederick.com/work/fi...agentswitcher/

But FF people say to go

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech...ism/users.html

if u have any probs with a website

[Paul]

Speed up firefox

forevergeek.com has a useful guide on speeding up firefox for broadband users. basically after getting to the hidden config settings you set the browser to request more data that it usually does.

1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0”. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!