How To Make Firefox Even Faster

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[don-o]

WOW. The speedup is very noticeable. Thanks for the tips.

ditto

[TMSuchman]

Man this sucks sand out of an old dirty boot! All I can get is dial up where we live. Verizon will not put in the hardware for dsl into this area. They say not enough need to warrent the expense, so we are stuck with this garbage....

[armymarinemom]

Thanks for the tip. Yes it does speed things up. Bump to fix DH's computer.

[general_re]

If you're interested in digging into the guts of your browser, I can give you a repeatable case where pipelining actually slows things way, way down.

[Banjoguy]

NTSCP 8.0 is slow to load and it is sluggish other respects. I have had several experiences where it spontaneously switches tabs to a different window or refuses to switch when asked and then after waiting a while it executes all the stored up keystrokes. The interface is not intuitive. I quit using it and reverted to NTSCP 7.2 which seems to be all the browser I need.

[Nightshift]

My wife is a real blonde, but what makes her different is that she can really think. LOL

[Ichneumon]

Would someone please refresh my memory. ISDN?????. I have cable, I know dial-up and DSL but ISDN? At work I also use FF on a huge internal network. Is it ISDN???

ISDN was sort of a half-assed precursor to DSL. It's pretty much obsolete these days, as the form of ISDN most people would encounter is not a whole lot faster than dialup.

The warning in the article about "NOT on ISDN or dialup" isn't for any esoteric technical reasons, it's just saying not to use this tweak on a slow internet connection, because you'll choke it with too many simultaneous connections and will probably be worse off than before, performance-wise. Only use this tweak if you have any type of *fast* internet connection, like cable, DSL, T1, satellite, etc. It enables the Firefox browser to make the most of that wide-open "internet highway" you've got, instead of using just a single "lane" of the freeway at a time.

[Ichneumon]

Man this sucks sand out of an old dirty boot! All I can get is dial up where we live. Verizon will not put in the hardware for dsl into this area. They say not enough need to warrent the expense, so we are stuck with this garbage....

Cablemodem service not available either?

[grb]

PING FOR LATER

[TMSuchman]

Only if you want the junk cable tv service too, which we do not want! the local cable tv co. has too many strings attached to the service.

[Blood of Tyrants]

bumped for later

[bmwcyle]

bttt