speed up firefox by 150-250%

white2098 · Post by **white2098** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:53 pm

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=o1xxjzedwo

i found that while on firefox's stumble feature. i definitely noticed a big difference in speed. i also checked it out before i actually did it and it seams to be safe. it also only works for people with high bandwidth so dial-up or slow connections probably won't work.

Kmaster · Post by **Kmaster** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:22 pm

It's a nice tip, but pipelining is an experimental feature, and some servers don't allow it

Slayer · Post by **Slayer** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:43 am

heh, I just read a new firefox vs opera study, and though teh study was total BS, all the comments at the end primarily supported the new opera over firefox.

I was kinda suprised at that, but I might have read it before the firefox fanboys got to it

white2098 · Post by **white2098** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:48 pm

i personally hate firefox. it's given me problems for a while now, especially freezing my entire computer forcing me to restart.

Slayer · Post by **Slayer** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:53 pm

white2098 wrote:i personally hate firefox. it's given me problems for a while now, especially freezing my entire computer forcing me to restart.

clearly your not a fanboy, if you were you'd be like

My machine keeps freezing when I have firefox open, but firefox is perfect, so it must be that Windows uses internet explorer to display its content on the desktop and internet explorer sucks.

white2098 · Post by **white2098** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:56 pm

lol, so true

Teranor · Post by **Teranor** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:13 pm

Mozilla Firefox rules.

white2098 · Post by **white2098** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:25 pm

it has a ton of great features, but it can't handle media for it's life. for example, today i was trying to look at some videos on break and firefox wouldn't load the video so i tried it on IE and it worked perfectly. this happens all the time to, not just today, and not just break.

Slayer · Post by **Slayer** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:30 pm

I'm still using Avant, except for those addin thingies, its great, pretty much has all the features of the two combined (right out of the box), and it uses the trident engine, so no issues on rendering any pages or media ever.

For those of you that have never heard of it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant_Browser

Kmaster · Post by **Kmaster** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:52 pm

but ie does sucks lol, it can't even display the MSN page, what, you want a screnie?

man that's usefull lmao

I have never tried Avant, but i don't think i will heh, Gecko and Adblock rules, i have never had a problem with it

down with proprietary software, firefox rules

Woody · Post by **Woody** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:59 pm

Its the extensions that make firefox my browser of choice. I have 44 active right now, it would be more but not all of them have been upgraded for firefox 3 yet.

Whenever I fire up IE so many things I'm used to are missing.

OLD_Fenderbender · Post by **OLD_Fenderbender** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:13 am

hehe, i've tried the 3.B version of firefox (it automatically updated to the 3.0 recently), big improvement, but when i did it crashed when i went to the msn site, however it won't crash if u bypass that site to check email though lol, it is faster than before, still has its lows (not as many), but is better than IE 7 that craps its self when it feels like it, kinda funny though...

Slayer · Post by **Slayer** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:25 am

the MSN site will crash IE5.0, the default website and default browser for windows 98, isn't that swell

They is something wrong with the MSN site...

OLD_Fenderbender · Post by **OLD_Fenderbender** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:00 am

lol ur gonna like this, i went to see if it worked again, and it jsut loaded the text thats it, was like huh?

refreshed it and it looks fine by me now, the 3.0 seems to be fine for msn

te hee

Kmaster · Post by **Kmaster** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:29 am

To all firefox users, carefull with version 2.0.0.15, it can not resolve any IP or show any page (at least for me, and other users)

Right now I'm in Ubuntu (Firefox 2.0.0.14 and it works fine)

Kmaster · Post by **Kmaster** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:37 pm

Got it.. I have a nasty DNS problem http://64.233.167.147 works but http://www.google.com doesn't, same thing goes for IE...

I reinstalled FF 2.00.14 btw

EDIT: Fixed. (and I got IE working again lol) and yes, "ipconfig /flushdns"
and "ipconfig /registerdns" were completely useless lol. I had to use this commands:

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nbtstat -R
nbtstat -RR

I'm not sure if that solved it, because I uninstalled Kaspersky too (although it was completely disabled)
odd..

I don't know if FF 2.0.0.15 caused this problem, but I won't install it lol, (Version 3 was released, so there's not a really good reason)

OLD_Fenderbender · Post by **OLD_Fenderbender** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:17 pm

3.0 is working fine for me atm, haven't found too many problems yet, other than it like to quit itself at random times, not often

Slayer · Post by **Slayer** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 7:03 pm

OLD_Fenderbender wrote:3.0 is working fine for me atm, haven't found too many problems yet, other than it like to quit itself at random times, not often

kinda funny you put up with bugs like that.

OLD_Fenderbender · Post by **OLD_Fenderbender** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 7:37 pm

only happened trice lol, hasn't happened yet again

Slayer · Post by **Slayer** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:13 pm

How long have you been using it?