Firefox has been outperforming IE in every department for years, and version 3 is speedier than ever.
But tweak the right settings and you could make it faster still, more than doubling your speed in some situations, all for about five minutes work and for the cost of precisely nothing at all. Here’s what you need to do.
1. Enable pipelining
Browsers are normally very polite, sending a request to a server then waiting for a response before continuing. Pipelining is a more aggressive technique that lets them send multiple requests before any responses are received, often reducing page download times. To enable it, type about:config in the address bar, double-click network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining so their values are set to true, then double-click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set this to 8.
Keep in mind that some servers don’t support pipelining, though, and if you regularly visit a lot of these then the tweak can actually reduce performance. Set network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining to false again if you have any problems.
2. Render quickly
Large, complex web pages can take a while to download. Firefox doesn’t want to keep you waiting, so by default will display what it’s received so far every 0.12 seconds (the “content notify interval”). While this helps the browser feel snappy, frequent redraws increase the total page load time, so a longer content notify interval will improve performance.
Type about:config and press [Enter], then right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) somewhere in the window and select New > Integer. Type content.notify.interval as your preference name, click OK, enter 500000 (that’s five hundred thousand, not fifty thousand) and click OK again.
Right-click again in the window and select New > Boolean. This time create a value called content.notify.ontimer and set it to True to finish the job.
3. Faster loading
If you haven’t moved your mouse or touched the keyboard for 0.75 seconds (the content switch threshold) then Firefox enters a low frequency interrupt mode, which means its interface becomes less responsive but your page loads more quickly. Reducing the content switch threshold can improve performance, then, and it only takes a moment.
Type about:config and press [Enter], right-click in the window and select New > Integer. Type content.switch.threshold, click OK, enter 250000 (a quarter of a second) and click OK to finish.
4. No interruptions
You can take the last step even further by telling Firefox to ignore user interface events altogether until the current page has been downloaded. This is a little drastic as Firefox could remain unresponsive for quite some time, but try this and see how it works for you.
Type about:config, press [Enter], right-click in the window and select New > Boolean. Type content.interrupt.parsing, click OK, set the value to False and click OK.
5. Block Flash
Intrusive Flash animations are everywhere, popping up over the content you actually want to read and slowing down your browsing. Fortunately there’s a very easy solution. Install the Flashblock extension (flashblock.mozdev.org) and it’ll block all Flash applets from loading, so web pages will display much more quickly. And if you discover some Flash content that isn’t entirely useless, just click its placeholder to download and view the applet as normal.
6. Increase the cache size
As you browse the web so Firefox stores site images and scripts in a local memory cache, where they can be speedily retrieved if you revisit the same page. If you have plenty of RAM (2 GB of more), leave Firefox running all the time and regularly return to pages then you can improve performance by increasing this cache size. Type about:config and press [Enter], then right-click anywhere in the window and select New > Integer. Type browser.cache.memory.capacity, click OK, enter 65536 and click OK, then restart your browser to get the new, larger cache.
7. Enable TraceMonkey
TraceMonkey is a new Firefox feature that converts slow Javascript into super-speedy x86 code, and so lets it run some functions anything up to 20 times faster than the current version. It’s still buggy so isn’t available in the regular Firefox download yet, but if you’re willing to risk the odd crash or two then there’s an easy way to try it out.
Install the latest nightly build (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/), launch it, type about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Type JIT in the filter box, then double-click javascript.options.jit.chrome and javascript.options.jit.content to change their values to true, and that’s it – you’re running the fastest Firefox Javascript engine ever.
8. Compress data
If you’ve a slow internet connection then it may feel like you’ll never get Firefox to perform properly, but that’s not necessarily true. Install toonel.net (toonel.net) and this clever Java applet will re-route your web traffic through its own server, compressing it at the same time, so there’s much less to download. And it can even compress JPEGs by allowing you to reduce their quality. This all helps to cut your data transfer, useful if you’re on a limited 1 GB-per-month account, and can at best double your browsing performance.
8 hacks to make Firefox ridiculously fast
Posted on Wednesday, June 23, 2010
by khabibkhan
How to check Antivirus Working Properly
Posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010
by khabibkhan
Are you sure, Your antivirus perfect working, if you doubt, we can test with using script that provide by EICAR (European Institute for Computer Anti-virus Research).
OK, follow my instruction below:
Do not be afraid to file we created earlier will not infect your computer even if detected by the anti-virus.
Text Code What I write above is the standard text used by the developers in particular By Anti Virus EICAR (European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research).
EICAR itself is the focal agency in the field of viruses and they create a standardization of the antiviral.
These standards are used to see the reaction when the antivirus detects the file created by the EICAR text file we created earlier with the notepad.
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OK, follow my instruction below:
- Open Notepad, then copy and paste this code
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* - Text which paste must be in horizontal
- Save As your notepad with extention.com and the name up to you, eg:antiviruscheck.com
- if some time after you save file and your antvirus direct detect, so your antivirus is working properly
Do not be afraid to file we created earlier will not infect your computer even if detected by the anti-virus.
Text Code What I write above is the standard text used by the developers in particular By Anti Virus EICAR (European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research).
EICAR itself is the focal agency in the field of viruses and they create a standardization of the antiviral.
These standards are used to see the reaction when the antivirus detects the file created by the EICAR text file we created earlier with the notepad.
Video Life Music Soundtrack FIFA 2010
Posted on Tuesday, February 2, 2010
by khabibkhan
Video Life Music Soundtrack FIFA 2010
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How To Download Youtube 100% Perfect Working
Posted on Friday, January 22, 2010
by khabibkhan
How to Download youtube with easy and 100% perfect working, any site that provide youtube downloader, you can visit http://khabibkhan.110mb.com, I am not explain for a long because this manner is not difficult. Good Luck
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The Great World of iPods
Posted on Friday, January 1, 2010
by khabibkhan
Music is part of our lives. Babies are comforted by lullabies, we learn to speak and communicate through song, teenagers first rebel through rap, and communities are brought together through hymns. Music defines who we are, and allows us to concentrate on tasks by providing rhythm to our daily tasks, and a melody can dredge up memories long thought forgotten.
Although we’ve had access to portable music for decades, the iPod has revolutionized how we think about portability itself; songs can be downloaded in a few minutes and be played until they have been replaced. As permanent media are not needed, such as for compact disk players, and the songs can be downloaded again (in case of accidental deletion) there is no need for protecting the songs themselves. This makes iPods the mostportable music source, as other players require not only the player, but the medium itself. In other words: You don’t need to drag tapes or CD’s along, and worry about how you will carry them or keep them safe.
Unfortunately, iPods do not support all kinds of audio formats. Luckily there is iPod AudioBook software that will make audio books out of your .flac or .ogg or any other files.
You can also do something you can’t with other players: You can transmit the music to other players. Thus sharing music or trading songs is just a matter of having the right cords. You can also place the iPod in a dock, allowing it to play music in a better sound system. Whereas other players were limited to transferring the media itself, the iPod becomes the media.
Besides music, some iPods can handle video as well as images. Besides keeping video size small, this means that viral videos can infect systems beyond the limits of the original system. It has also created entirely new industries. The best example of this is that comic artists can allow their comics to be downloaded, and those comics can be shared with other fans of the comics. Although it probably won’t overtake people printing comics to share with friends any time soon, it does allow someone to carry their favorite comics with them wherever they go or download then for future reading if they download the comics as part of bigger packages.
The iPod has become the center point of new marketing campaigns, as well as new legislation. After all, when a potential listener doesn’t need to pay for the song, copyright issues come into play. Various licensing plans have come into play, but after Sony’s attempt to invoke a hardware solution (they included a bit of software in order to enforce CD copyrights that ended up effectively disconnecting CD-ROM drives and resulting in a class action suit against Sony) have made other companies nervous.
The iPod is an interesting piece of technology, and not just because of its portability. As any technology becomes more advanced, the more it can do as well. Even CD players never got past being able to play more than music; some iPods have already passed that with their multimedia capabilities. As technology continues to get smaller and branch out, it will be interesting to see where iPods will be in even a few years from now.
Although we’ve had access to portable music for decades, the iPod has revolutionized how we think about portability itself; songs can be downloaded in a few minutes and be played until they have been replaced. As permanent media are not needed, such as for compact disk players, and the songs can be downloaded again (in case of accidental deletion) there is no need for protecting the songs themselves. This makes iPods the mostportable music source, as other players require not only the player, but the medium itself. In other words: You don’t need to drag tapes or CD’s along, and worry about how you will carry them or keep them safe.
Unfortunately, iPods do not support all kinds of audio formats. Luckily there is iPod AudioBook software that will make audio books out of your .flac or .ogg or any other files.
You can also do something you can’t with other players: You can transmit the music to other players. Thus sharing music or trading songs is just a matter of having the right cords. You can also place the iPod in a dock, allowing it to play music in a better sound system. Whereas other players were limited to transferring the media itself, the iPod becomes the media.
Besides music, some iPods can handle video as well as images. Besides keeping video size small, this means that viral videos can infect systems beyond the limits of the original system. It has also created entirely new industries. The best example of this is that comic artists can allow their comics to be downloaded, and those comics can be shared with other fans of the comics. Although it probably won’t overtake people printing comics to share with friends any time soon, it does allow someone to carry their favorite comics with them wherever they go or download then for future reading if they download the comics as part of bigger packages.
The iPod has become the center point of new marketing campaigns, as well as new legislation. After all, when a potential listener doesn’t need to pay for the song, copyright issues come into play. Various licensing plans have come into play, but after Sony’s attempt to invoke a hardware solution (they included a bit of software in order to enforce CD copyrights that ended up effectively disconnecting CD-ROM drives and resulting in a class action suit against Sony) have made other companies nervous.
The iPod is an interesting piece of technology, and not just because of its portability. As any technology becomes more advanced, the more it can do as well. Even CD players never got past being able to play more than music; some iPods have already passed that with their multimedia capabilities. As technology continues to get smaller and branch out, it will be interesting to see where iPods will be in even a few years from now.
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