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How To Make Firefox Load Faster + Known Firefox Tweaks
the reason firefox loads so slow is because of addons and updates create a new profile firefox.Exe -p to open profile manager firefox must not be running create a new profile and set it as your defalt you will lose your apps but firefox will start up faster. you can use three extensions called CLEO, FEBE and OPIE and save all you addons and settings in a single file and reinstall them. while your looking at your e... read more.
Ok first of all, i have read through all the Firefox tune-up tutorials on the site, and none of them have mentioned on how to make Firefox load faster like IE. So i thought i should make a easy tutorial on it.
REAL EASY WAY: Download Firetune: FIRETUNE And you will know what to do, just muck around with the software’s settings.
COMPLICATED BUT TECHNICAL WAY: And second of all, all those who are still using IE (Microsoft's infamous Internet Explorer) get Firefox. Why you may ask, read this: FIREFOX vs. IE.
Have you ever noticed on how fast IE loads compared to Firefox? That is because XP preloads IE on its start-up.
After some research i found that Firefox developers have chosen not to tie up system resources before they really need it, but if you want it to load fast it is possible to achieve that by doing the same thing as what IE does.
1. Put your Firefox shortcut onto you start menu. Easier way of doing this is if you have a shortcut on your desktop drag it onto you start button on your button left.
2. Right click on the shortcut in the start menu and then 'Properties'. Find the target section which should contain something similar [ "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" ] , add '/Prefetch:1' next to the address (without the inverted commas). SO the target box should contain what is in the square brackets as follows [ "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" /Prefetch:1 ]
Now by doing this Windows XP should preload Firefox on its start-up, so Firefox loads as fast as IE. --- I thought about making a tutorial on changing the about:config settings but seeing all the tutorials already available, my topic may be considered spamming.
NONSENSE
Why IE loads faster:
The internet explorer application itself is very small with most of the work being done by the supporting DLL's. These are loaded at bootup, not to speed a launch of IE, but because they are used by the system itself.
Prefetch switch:
The switch /prefetch:1 does nothing for Firefox. This switch is used in auto-generated shortcuts to Windows Media Player, but not for what you think. I will leave the description to Ryan Myers, member of Microsoft's client performance team:
I am no expert, but I do know that Firefox was taking literally about five minutes (!) to load on my XP computer. (No other programs take such an abnormally long time). I added the prefetch switch, and now it takes less than ten seconds. As such, I believe that you may be mistaken in your opinion that it doesn't help.
Firefox used to be good but with every new version it gets slower to load. I regularly have to go into Task Manager and end the firefox process to get it to run... Sadly it's becoming old news. Opera seems to be a better bet!
I suspect that the "add /prefetch:1 to make rocket go now" urban legend will never die, though.
In theory, prefetching makes sense, so it makes sense to add the prefetch switch to make FireFox load faster. Judging from the blogger, I'm going to go out on a limb and agree with him.
However, speaking of prefetching... there is a FireFox preloader that drastically cuts intial load times for FireFox... at the cost of adding some boot time to your startup. I'm using it now on my work computer and it does work (cutting my FF load to 4 seconds)... but one thing that annoys me a bit is that sometimes when the preloader kicks in, it opens up a "windowless" window (only the title bar shows, with no text and just the FF icon), and that sticks around, which means that sometimes it has the tendency to make you lose out on all your previous tabs (if you have that option enabled). If you want, though, you can give it a shot.
This doesn't seem to make it load faster for me, It already does load fast anyway but there is really no need to tweak firefox you will need to tweak IE though.
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How To Make Firefox Load Faster + Known Firefox Tweaks
I hate IE and that is why I changed to FireFox. However, after Google released Chrome, I have been using it ever since. Chrome takes literally 2 seconds to open up and loads pages faster than FireFox or IE. Other advantages are it's clean interface, AJAX technology, and many more. Ofcourse, Chrome is still young and needs more features that are present in FireFox but it has lots of potential. The most annoying thing I find about it is that some sites's applications only work on IE or FireFox (I.E. ESPN 360, TurboTax, etc.). Other than that, I would highly recommend Chrome especially after they get out of 2.0 BETA.
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How To Make Firefox Load Faster + Known Firefox Tweaks
the reason firefox loads so slow is because of addons and updates create a new profile firefox.Exe -p to open profile manager firefox must not be running create a new profile and set it as your defalt you will lose your apps but firefox will start up faster. you can use three extensions called CLEO, FEBE and OPIE and save all you addons and settings in a single file and reinstall them. while your looking at your extensions disable some you don't need like ridiculous amounts of toolbars. also see of there are any addons that combine some you have like tab kit has colors tab manipulation and other stuff that has individual addons you may be using.
I don't know how people are getting such long startup times for Firefox, since I don't presume to know what you're running. But I can attest that for the life of me, Firefox has never taken more than a few seconds to start up, and I've been using it since pre v1.0.
Perhaps reiterating some obvious points that I use, and a rough description of my setup can be helpful...
First off:
To the guy with a lot of fonts... Having too many fonts installed will slow down your computer in general, not just firefox.
About firefox taking "5 minutes" or any outlandish number to start:
There are many reasons this can happen. Common sense really, but can be easily overlooked.
* too many extensions and themes
* too many simultaneous tabs as a homepage,
* the homepages are themselves, heavy. (overuse of flash, web apps etc.)
* installed a useless flash game
* have many useless toolbars
* have many plugins installed that are hardly of use
* have issues with Java Runtime
* have kids who've been using their computer with admin access to system directories, and a love for games.
* also, there are many who aren't aware that Windows loads its GUI before many of its services to make it (appear) to boot fast. I've seen this happen many times. The user will subsequently start Firefox before their computer is even done booting, and wonder why it takes so long to start up the browser.
(The list goes on and on)
Naturally, "too many" of anything depends on system hardware and configurations. For a basis for comparison:
I'm running Pentium 4 2ghz single core, 1.5 GB 400mhz DDR, double harddrive (1 for apps & OS, 1 for storage and pagefile), evga 7600GT with 512mb DDR2 AGP8x videocard, on Windows XP. (old but not ancient, still kicking system). I stayed away from Vista like the plague. My ffox initial startup is a few seconds on average even after updates. We're talking 2-4 seconds at the very MOST.
I have one custom theme (not all themes are created equal; some are heavier and/or buggier than others), and a modest set of extensions that include only:
Adblock Plus
DownloadHelper
Evernote WebClipper
FoxyProxy
NoScript
Note that Adblock Plus and NoScript may actually speed the appearance of load times since it blocks advertisements and various scripts from loading. It can also make it appear to start up slower since some pages will go nuts if it can't load up a given advertisement; e.G. - it will never be "done" loading. I have a custom theme, but installed 1 and only 1. I refrain from using heavy add-ons like FoxTab, etc, since I don't have the computer to run it to my subjective standards.
I also use third party applications to make host file additions: these additions don't really do much for speed except reroute potential calls to known bad servers to instead, refer to my loopback address.
Spybot Search & Destroy's "Immunity Settings", and SpywareBlaster.
In combination with Adblock Plus and NoScript, my web surfing experience is very sane (no ads, unintended flash popups, hijacks, clickjacks, etc). Some people will say NoScript is very intrusive, which it arguably is, since by design it's a whitelist program, but well worth the trouble for me anyway.
Finally, my home page is 1 tab: and it goes to google.Com... Very little to start with, & shorter start-up time as a result. If I want to load a set of pages, I'll refer to one of my set of bookmarks and "open all in tabs" after the browser is started. At least my browser is started, with its homepage open, and I will know for certain, any issue I come across isn't an issue with the browser itself.
Having too many themes and extensions does a number of things:
1) if fox is set that way, it will check for updates for (all) of them at its startup.
2) after startup, it'll always have them loaded with firefox, since they are now part of your browser.
About the program, "Firefox Preloader": it DOES speed up Firefox startup since it loads the browser to memory since boot, and as a result it lengthens boot time. This is as advertised, and in that respect, it works.
It works to the extent that Firefox (now version 3.5.2) starts up faster than a fresh install of IE 8. However, because the Preloader leaves firefox in memory even after closing the browser, you will get occasional issues like what another poster mentioned, titlebars w/no window, not closing properly, minor issues with updates, etc. I'd also like to add, by design it doesn't clear my history upon shutting the browser as I intended in my Firefox settings - e.G. Mail remains logged on even if I close the browser. When using the preloader, I therefore have to Ctrl+Shift+Del to clear everything before closing the browser, to ensure history is gone. (I checked everything in the clear history settings, and Preloader makes it so I still have to key-combo my history away).
Off topic, from an end-user standpoint, compared to Firefox, IE 8 has horrible performance opening new tabs in general. That by itself is enough for me not to use IE 8, though accelerators and web slices are good ideas I must admit.
Firefox takes less than a second to open if you have Firefox preloader installed, I think the issue is that it can take around a minute to open-up initailly right after startup.
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How To Make Firefox Load Faster + Known Firefox Tweaks
I am not an expert about this, but I notice when I start Firefox and I look at what is being loaded through the Avast anti-virus, the thing that is taking so long to load is all the fonts. It seems that every font on my computer is being "loaded" onto Firefox. This is what is taking so long. Does anyone know anything about this? Is there any way to change the settings so that a limited amount of fonts will load?
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I have a serious problem on my main PC. Firefox refuses to open. It goes directly to the crash
report, listing the add-ons that failed on startup. I managed to launch it from the Run window into
Safe Mode, and again it crashed immediately, but this time only listed one add-on: MovePlayer. The
uninstall instructions I found require a Firefox capable of loading. I'm running Windows XP and
have no listing for Move in my Add/Remove Programs dialog. What's my next step?....
Mozilla Firefox development team is curently working on the third reincarnation of its browser,
which already gor to the fourth beta version. Authors say that apart from gaining quite some speed,
they also managed to lower the usage of RAM. ArsTechnica decided to test what they say and so
they tested Firefox 3 beta 4, Firefox 2.0.0.12, Opero 9.5 beta, Internet Explorer 7, Internet
Explorer 8 ter Safari 3.0.4 beta in the Talos framework on Windows Vista. Talos framework emulates
normal usage of a browser with opening and closing of sites. IE8 and Safari both crashed d....
Well, I hope I am posting this in the right forum. I was wondering if you tech-guys know if there is
any difference in speed if: I am let's say extracting two 2gb archives file1.rar and file2.rar:
1. at the same time 2. one after another I'd really like to know that, because I really love to
multi-task but sometimes I get the feeling that things would go faster if I did one thing and then
after the first one is completed, move on to another rar archive for example... Thank you all for
your answers!....
Hi there guys, Im making a package for novice web designers, it uses firefox and plug-ins. My
question is, How would i make these plugins already part of a firefox installation? I would also
want the homepage to be different form the auto installed one, Anybody got any ideas? cause i am
stumped! /dry.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" Please someone help i really am
desperate for this! /huh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":huh:" border="0" alt="huh.gif"
/>....
You can access your FireFox cache files by typing this "about:cache?device=disk" into your FF URL
bar There is the cache directory will tell you the directory in which cache is stored, this is not
IE and you'll not be able to browse by going to that directory, because its in encrypted form.
If you want to browse your cache, you're in the page! The about:cache?device=disk is the disk
cache page! browse around in here. This is completely different to what is temporary internet
files in IE. Use the quick find function by pressing / (forward slash) and type i....
Every time you open Photoshop or Microsoft Word, it scans for all the fonts on your computer. That
can take a while, especially if you have 500 of them, like me. There are often many fonts installed
on a person’s computer, but the average computer user doesn’t need so many fonts. For example,
Microsoft Office 2003 installs a large collection of fonts, but in reality these fonts are just ugly
and not useful at all. The last time I used one of those fonts was 3 years ago, and that was on
someone else’s computer. And if you’re a web designer, you will have a very hard tim....
It is in Beta 1 still. But if you downlaoded you can download the google toolabr for FireFox3 Beta
1. What I like about it is the download menu. I mean everytime I downlaod something the layout is
just like the Mac's but Firefox way. Also the way you bookmark stuff is easier. What are your
thoughts?....
It just not long ago the Firefox 2.0.10 release. The Firefox 2.0.11 is now out. This release
corrects a compatibility issue with some websites and extensions discovered in Firefox 2.0.0.10.
Check out this new version now !! URL :
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.11/releasenotes/ ....
Here's something I found on another forum, and thought I would post it here. This apparently
makes your Invision Power Board a lot quicker using eAccelerator. First, check if your host has
eAccelerator(Im pretty sure trap17 does) Second, Add the followinf code before the closing php tag
in conf_global.php(Found in your root directory): CODE $INFO = '1'; Thats it. I
tested this out myself, and the forums do load really quick, but I'm not sure if the speed has
increased. Could be my imagination because I expect it to increase. Try it out for y....
Well, I have installed the lastest version of Firefox 2.0.9. But it got some issues that when I have
browse few web site such yahoo. It got some text wrong positioned. Anyone got this problems too ?
Thanks. ....
i've had this attempt before with no luck now i'm going to try again! now that i got my two
laptops (laptop1 - Vista, laptop2 - XP) wirelessly connected, i still can't see each others
shared files... i tried this before with my PC (XP) and laptop (Vista) now i have to make this
work because i have some files needed to be transfered between them... i have gone through the
manual process of anabling file sharing blah blah through here
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/e...e/vista_fp.mspx
http://www.home-network-help.com/simple-file-sharing.ht....
Some registry tweaks for Microsoft Windows Media Player to run Windows Registry Editor (regedit);
Click Start menu > click run and type "regedit" . ( no quites). To disable " Upgrade" message
1- Go to the following address: QUOTE
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/MediaPlayer/PlayerUpgrade 2- Right click In the right panel
and then create a new String Value and name it "AskMeAgain". 3- And finally give it value of NO, in
the Value Data field. To delete last Play List in the History 1- To delete last files go to QUOTE
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsof....
Hi everyone, this is hard to explain..Basically i use firefox for browsing and i like the way ive
got it set up, but now im ging into web development more i need the development addons for FF. The
problem is i dont want to have millions of addons on my normal FF browser as it gets clogged up in
the toolbars etc and would annoy me. So i thought i would get another download of FF and use that
and add all the usefull Dev addons i could find, the problem is both FF exe's use the same
settings, probably from the same registry entry, if i clear history in one, it gets clea....
I love Firefox, but we have IE 6 at my school. I tried using Portable Firefox, but it runs
unbearably s l o w and takes up almost half of my network drive space. Does anyone know how to make
it faster or smaller? (or of any other super tiny browsers?)....
You can remove Firefox 2.0 or higher tab scroller, an invention annoying like linux distros simple
as walking few miles on your hands /ohmy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":o" border="0"
alt="ohmy.gif" /> . Just a joke, it's much much simpler. Three steps proces 1. open your
firefox and type about:config in adress bar (the place where u usually type
http://trap17.com/forums) , without that http thingy 2. find option browser.tabs.tabMinWidth and
change the value to 0 -- 3. restart your lovely firefox, and start it again.. Enjoy your
No-Tab-Scrolling su....
From here: http://poptech.blogspot.com/2006/09/intern...ecure-than.html QUOTE Is Browser
Security getting better? That is tough to say but Firefox is definitely not leading the way. Despite
all the hype, despite all the Myths, Firefox 1.x has a worse security record so far in 2006 than
Internet Explorer 6.x. The popular security site Secunia reports advisories that can include
multiple security vulnerabilities of a product. The most severe Firefox Secunia advisories tend to
get posted at each version update of the browser. These version update advisories mislead ....
i've recently noticed the my mozilla firefox doesn't download the things that i download
from sites. there are some exceptions, but most of the stuff can't seem to be downloaded.
i've reinstalled the browser but it still doesn't work. now i'm thinking that a virus
has affected my browser as well. maybe i really have to do a reformat on the system. tsk.....
The usually excellent Firefox is annoying me. When ever I try & install a theme or add-on im
greeted with: 'Software installation is currently disabled. Click Edit Options to enable it &
try again' So off I go to edit options, & nowhere is there 'enable software
installation', ive looked through every menu on firefox & just cant find it. Where am I going
wrong? Its very annoying.....
Seeing there is a lack of good sources for information these days I'll begin with a quick
introduction... Dreamweaver (v1.0 - v8.0, MX and MX 2004) was programed, developed and compiled by
Macromedia (now part of Adobe Systems Inc.). This is a very good program and I highly recomend you
spend some denero and get this program. It's a WYSIWYG editor. The acronym menas What You See
Is What You Get. Some of the features of Dreamweaver MX 2004 include: The ability to view the
contents in WYSIWYG and HTML formats. Multi-Language (ASP, XHTML, ASP.NET ect...) The....
Hey guyz! Do you hate Internet explorer? or do you want other people to stop using Internet
explorer and make them switch to another browser? If yes, then here's the time to show your
support. I've started a campaign in which I am requesting people to stop using Internet
Explorer, I am sure that most of us know why we've got to do this...I know most of us are
intelligent /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> I
think if anyone thinks the way I think..must take part in this campaign and must make other people
awar....
I have problems with both IE and Firefox. IE always crashes or freezes on me all the time. When I
can actually use it, it never displays flash. Like if somone has a flash animation in their banner
it just shows a still picture. I went into the internet options and enabled flahs and stuff and it
doesn't show the animation. I even got the newest version of Flash. Firefox doesn't crash as
much as IE but it does from time to time. I have ran spyware and virus software and nothing comes
up. I dunno what the problem is. Also, whenever I download something on IE or Fire....
Hello all you FireFox user's! Did you know that on croatian language FireFox means >
"VatrenaLisica" /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /> Anyway
here is the deal: with this easy tutorial you'll get very fast pageloads in firefox browser:
just follow this simple code: CODE Here's something for broadband people that will really
speed up Firefox: 1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look
for the following entries: * network.http.pipelining * network.http.proxy.pipelining ....
I have a problem typing in Fire Fox 1.0.4 sometimes the cursor moves back one space for no reason at
random. In fact right now its fine and before it was moving back all the time was this just a glitch
or is there something I need to fix?....
I have a serious problem with Firefox: the cookies for some sites do not work. In other words, when
I'm logged into a site, like as the admin on my gallery for example, my session ends
immediately. My session behaves normally when I'm logged into my email services, but my cookies
behave really weird in other sites. I have two solutions to this, one drastic and the other not
drastic. I can either format my computer and start from scratch, or I can completely rid of computer
of any traces of Firefox, including ALL history, passwords saved, cookies, and cache. I&#....
So I download Firefox. The free version. I get all of it installed. For some reason it just
doesn't work on my computer. I have XP I have the Service Pack #2 Is anyone else having an
issue using it?....
Can some one help me? Every time I open flash sites the quick time plugin is used instead of the
flash plug in can some one tell me how to change this? Thanks....
I have tried Internet Explorer 6 , Netscape Navigator 7, Opera 7 and then Firefox 1.0PR. And in my
view Firefox is best among them all. There all following reasons:- 1. Great Speed 2. A lot of
good Extensions 3. A lot of themes 4. Security 5. User Interface
.......... and many others also. I want to know your view about this. Thanks in
advance.....
