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19 Jan 2005, 04:11 AM | #1 | |
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Speed Up Firefox!
If you don't have FireFox yet get it here!
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19 Jan 2005, 05:06 AM | #2 |
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I did that already awhile ago.
It works too. It's no trick |
19 Jan 2005, 05:37 AM | #3 | |
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Re: Speed Up Firefox!
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All the other options are fine as far as I know. |
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19 Jan 2005, 06:55 AM | #4 |
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It's speeds mine up so I guess people will have to try it both ways
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19 Jan 2005, 09:34 AM | #5 | |
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Re: Re: Speed Up Firefox!
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I've tried all the options before adding this one and this last one helped it to be even quicker (the other tips helped too). Running XP Home on dial-up. -p.s. actually, i've skipped that "browser turbo set to true" part as i overlooked it. Setting it to true seemed to slow down Firefox and K-Meleon. Oh! I forgot to say THANK YOU to JshLnsctt !!! It's the best tweak i've tested yet! Last edited by dantheman : 19 Jan 2005 at 07:08 PM. |
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21 Jan 2005, 08:52 AM | #6 |
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hmm... works mostly
for some reason everything seems to load much faster except that now the the whole .wikipedia.org website is quite sluggish. of course, maybe their server is just particularly overrun with traffic today.
either way i guess i will post again if it starts working well or if it continues to be slow. thanks for the tweak either way. |
21 Jan 2005, 09:04 AM | #7 |
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If you want to test to see if it is slowing it down:
If you have IE try going to that site with IE and see if it is about as slow or faster |
21 Jan 2005, 09:47 AM | #8 |
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Is there anything special I have to set before entering :config in the address bar? All I get is a brand new untitled tab.
Edit: never mind - should be about:config with no space before the colon Last edited by badkarma : 21 Jan 2005 at 10:02 AM. |
21 Jan 2005, 09:21 PM | #9 |
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If it does slow down - how do you retore defaults??? I think it does slow don on my system (Firefox 1.o on win XP home, P4 Toshiba)
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Remember the values if you're that concerned. Honestly few have reported problems and those that did disabled the last one and it worked fine. |
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22 Jan 2005, 03:53 AM | #11 |
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I am sorry I put the space there, I will fix it. It is about:config
Edit: Guess I can't edit it because in the post at the top there are no spaces when I hit edit |
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It appears it's an EMD bug. Try putting under code, like this. Code:
about:config Something about t: or :c . Hmm.. |
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The same sort of thing happened when I typed "about:mozilla" (without the quotes, but within a {url} container) in an earlier thread.
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