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Firefox users: how to speed up firefox

Postby eastinglandboi on Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:30 am

Okay for the people who don't know this and use firefox here is how u speed it up: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts
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Postby Ruff Ryder on Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:20 pm

Good lookin out, this works. (Y)
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Postby peaches on Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:29 pm

How much faster, TBD?
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Postby Ruff Ryder on Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:31 pm

Well I'm already on broadband, so it's not an outstanding difference, but you can tell a little bit, sometimes the NLSC loads in like 4 parts it seems, now it loads faster.
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Postby MetalHead on Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:41 pm

I'm on 11.0 MBps, so the results are marginal, but hey, I bet some 54k guys are going to love it. Good tip. (Y)
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Postby Cable on Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:43 pm

:lol: :lol: :lol: I love your sig TBD.
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Postby Doobie on Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:50 pm

I just noticed it , its great :lol: :lol: :lol: . I might download this later.Hopefully it can speed up my mozilla by alot since its going pretty slow lately .
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Postby eastinglandboi on Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:53 pm

yeah it worked for me pretty well too when i did it, explorer keeps attacking me randomly with pop ups though :? maybe it's jealous :o
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Postby streetballaz1 on Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:09 pm

holy shit (Y)
thanks alot
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Postby BOSS on Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:23 pm

Found this awhile ago.
But I forgot to do it since I reformatted my comp.
Good find and thanks for remindin me to add this.
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Postby Pera on Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:18 pm

DoobieKnicks wrote:I just noticed it , its great :lol: :lol: :lol: . I might download this later.Hopefully it can speed up my mozilla by alot since its going pretty slow lately .


Maybe you got spyware on your computer.

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Postby dada on Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:50 pm

Why isnt this working for me? :(

Am I just retarded?

I type the about.config but nothing comes up.

EDIT: oOoOoOoOoO!!!!

its about:config not about.config.


I have noticed the difference already. (Y)
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Postby Chris. on Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:39 am

had those tweaks done ages ago thanks to a little program called firetune
http://www.totalidea.com/freestuff4.htm its easier for me and i'm sure it can help
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Postby streetballaz1 on Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:00 am

chrisV, if i get it,firetune is better than firefox?
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Postby Ruff Ryder on Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:18 am

streetballaz1 wrote:chrisV, if i get it,firetune is better than firefox?

:doh: You missed the whole point of it.
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Postby streetballaz1 on Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:52 am

oh lol,now i get it.
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Postby Chris. on Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:53 am

:lol: firetune makes firefox better it tweaks it according to your pc, download it and try it and you will see
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Postby Nick on Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:30 am

Hmm, interesting.

I made the changes, but, it could just be me, but nlsc pages seem to be loading slower??
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Postby dada on Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:34 am

Nick wrote:Hmm, interesting.

I made the changes, but, it could just be me, but nlsc pages seem to be loading slower??


Are you using that firetuner thing?
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Postby Axel on Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:34 am

Thanks, I used to know this, but I had to reformat my PC and couldn't redo it once I reinstalled Firefox.
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Postby Nick on Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:24 pm

dadamafia wrote:
Nick wrote:Hmm, interesting.

I made the changes, but, it could just be me, but nlsc pages seem to be loading slower??


Are you using that firetuner thing?

Nope. What's this firetuner you speak of. :oops:

I just followed the directions from the link.
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Postby eastinglandboi on Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:45 pm

Nick wrote:
dadamafia wrote:
Nick wrote:Hmm, interesting.

I made the changes, but, it could just be me, but nlsc pages seem to be loading slower??


Are you using that firetuner thing?

Nope. What's this firetuner you speak of. :oops:

I just followed the directions from the link.

hmmm damn that obviously isn't supposed to happen, are you sure you did it all completely right? 'cause i would imagine one wrong command could fuck it up a bit
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Postby Nick on Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:09 am

I guess it could just be my imagination... i expected too much??
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Postby peaches on Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:11 am

Or the (b) getting to your head.
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