Firefox.... faster??? Other browser users beware!

I realize that this is old... BUT... I went back through my settings and noticed that some of them had been reset. SO I changed them back again...

Take a look at this article if you want to know more:
http://www.tweakfactor.com/articles/...oxtweak/4.html

[nathandiehl]

Yeah, all my settings got reset when i upgraded to v1.0.
i just reset them. thanks for this link, too. i set them, so we'll see how she runs now!

[[Admin] danroth]

An additional speedup is to go for "Custom Builds". There are sites that take the Firefox code and then optimize it to be most efficient for your particular processor.

Possibly the best known, but far from the only, source for these are:
http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/

Of course, it's important to realize that as unofficial builds, they will be a bit behind incorporating updates and also that they may occasionally (although rarely) introduce bugs in the optimization process.

also try switching network.http.request.max-start-delay to 0 if you have a high speed connection. !!This is set by Firefox to HELP dial-ups so don't change it if you don't have a high-speed connection!!

[adamdiehl]

holy moly. this is nuts. Much faster than before (at home i'm on a 56k modem that rarely gets above 24k). Will this speed up file downloads, as well?

[Tweed]

There is also an extension for the most important tweaks. Its called Tweak Network 1.0.

[MPCC Media]

Our churchs computer has IE5 still, and some pages don't load right with 5 anymore. I didn't want to take the chance of messing up the system by upgrading to IE6 SP1, so I downloaded Firefox and all pages looks ok, except for the alognment issues that are still there here and there. Wow! It is a bit faster.

[heebakutty]

i duly applied the above mentioned tweeks,it was working great but on checking my speed using the speed never inceased it remaind the same 5 Mbps, but my browsing speed and performance was much better now with out any glitches

[shane2943]

6.5 year old thread revival!!! Must set some kind of record.