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by **wonder** on Sat Aug 27, 2005 3:47 am

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
^Firefox.. a nice browser alot better then IE (most of you probably already have it)
but you can make it browse so much faster it only works on broadband connections though
http://forevergeek.com/open_source/make_firefox_faster.php
^is the link on how to speed it up

Enjoy Smile

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by **pcweirdo** on Mon Aug 29, 2005 11:57 pm

Awesome. It's not much help on my home dial-up, but I'll keep this in mind for the school computers and such.

If I remember correctly, this would probably breach the Windows XP EULA because you're not supposed to have more than 10 network connections or something. (Could be just server connections, I can't remember).

Now, is there a downside to this pipelining?

by **ShadowForces** on Wed Aug 31, 2005 11:15 pm

What is does for dial up is kills it. When you do the max requests it will just kill your 56KBps so dont it it. Only if you have DSL/Cable or in my case T1 Very Happy

But yeah it helped for me.

by **Agamemnon** on Thu Sep 01, 2005 12:08 am

There's no downside fore pipelining if you have broadband or dsl. Also you can make it only pipeline 10 connections or however many you want.

by **Dtgr** on Thu Sep 01, 2005 5:56 pm

Yea, this really speeds the firefox up, but is that legal? Some people says it isn't some says it is. Who knows?

Anyway, i have speeded up my firefox and i'm happy with this.

by **Arucard98** on Thu Sep 01, 2005 6:26 pm

Why would it be illegal? I modded mine in this same way, I seem to crash more often, but I definately am faster.

by **pcweirdo** on Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:59 am

I had thought it might be illegal, but now I see I was wrong. The Windows XP EULA says something about other devices connecting to Windows XP, but Firefox's connections are outgoing and therefore should be fine.

-pcweirdo.

by **NeonTempest** on Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:11 pm

I have been using Firefox since it was released on the Windows Platform. I HIGHLY recomend this product. Also, there is a portable version for flashdrives which is extreamly useful.

by **jaguar616** on Fri Sep 02, 2005 8:47 pm

Is there a similar speed up for Opera, which is what i use?

by **NeonTempest** on Sat Sep 03, 2005 3:13 am

not nearly. Firefox is spreading a lot faster

by **evln** on Sat Sep 03, 2005 7:20 pm

There are some great firefox tweaks on http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips. You can find tips like disabling marque, enabling frame resize, disbling java script site annoyances, ad-blocking and lots of other tweaks as well. I just can't live without these. You will need the ChromeEdit extension to make applying these tweaks easier as you have to make changes in a number of files in your profile.

by **pwner4once** on Wed Sep 07, 2005 2:16 am

lol im still downloading around 100kb/sec comparing to 110 before.
oh well i guess dsl would improve much since im on the basic plan anywayz

by **rabz** on Thu Sep 08, 2005 8:57 pm

thanks ... it's working with me .... it's a greate tweake ....
but does it works behind firewalls or NAT?
bcoz it isn't working @ school Sad

.... tell me what should i do?

by **pctech** on Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:18 am

Faster than IE by a long shot. Some peeps are just too smart! Glad they have the time to find the info for morons like us that cant do research... j/k

by **ciny** on Fri Sep 09, 2005 3:03 pm

thansk for the tip it works a little better now... BTW Does anyone know of an extension wich would anonymize my http headers and I could edit them?

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