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Monday, March 3, 2014

How To Make FireFox Faster

Firefox is an excellent browser and is one of my favourites.Besides,the huge number of add ons that it provides with makes it more special.However,the add ons can also have a negative impact and can hamper the actual speed of the browser .So here are a few tricks to increase browsing speed in firefox.

FireFox

1.Flash Block

If you want you can also block flash as flash is “just evil”. Just install the FlashBlock extension. And if there is any flash that you anyway want to see just click the button and it will start.

Then, restart Firefox and experience how much faster it is.

2.Remove Unused Extensions

Extensions can leak memory and have a negative effect on the performance of Firefox.

Uninstall extensions you are not using.
Check the list of problematic extensions and either uninstall or disable while not in use.
Extensions should also be disabled while not in use.

3.Increase Cache Size

I should have given this at the top since this greatly decreases loading time of webpages.Believe me,I know this because I myself have a low speed connection and this tip is the most effective.

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.

4.Data Compression

If you have a low speed data connection like me I am pretty sure that you often get frustrated about staring at white space while your webpage is loading .Well dont worry at all.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 theres 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 youre on a limited 1 GB-per-month account, and can at best double your browsing performance.

5.Install 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. Its still buggy so isnt available in the regular Firefox download yet, but if youre willing to risk the odd crash or two then theres 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 thats it - youre running the fastest Firefox Javascript engine ever.

6.Enable Pipelining

Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return.

Look for “network.http.keep-alive”. If it’s false, double-click that line and to change it to true.

Make sure “network.http.version” is set to “1.1″.

Look for “network.http.pipelining”. If it’s false, double-click that line and change it to true.

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 8 by double-clicking it. This means it will make 8 requests at once. There is no point setting it higher then 8 as it is capped at 8 max. The default value for this setting is 4.

Install Firefox 3 6 In Ubuntu

Mozilla released Firefox 3.6 few days ago. It is fast to start and fast to do js things. More in release notes here.

Installing Firefox 3.6 is same as installing Thunderbird 3 which I have already covered here.

Ill just copy pate those things here. So to update your Firefox follow the steps below:

Open Terminal
Add Mozillas sources by:

For Karmic:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa

For version older than Karmic:

echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu ubuntu_version main | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 247510BE

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install firefox-3.6 firefox-3.6-gnome-support firefox-3.6-branding
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade (just in case youve missed anything)
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-mozilla-daily-ppa-karmic.list (Otherwise your update manager will show new updates each day)
sudo aptitude update

Firefox Startup Slow In Ubuntu

Add-ons can slow down your browser. There are many add-ons available for Firefox making your whole browsing experience better and better but some of them can also make your browser crawl.

Today Mozilla has released the names of add-ons that makes your Firefox browser slow to start. You can find it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/performance/#addon-11

If you dont use some particular add-ons just disable them. It will not eat your valuable resources then.

Save by Title in Firefox

One major difference between IE and FF is the way they name file while saving the web page. IE saves by the title while FF saves by the title only if in URL there is no page name. In rest of the case FF saves by the page name. But people find lot convenient by saving by title name. To do so in FF you can add addon. Just search for the addon title save and install it and the next time you save the page it will be saved by the name of the title.

Mozilla Firefox 5 Final Released Officially

Today the Mozilla Firefox browser officially present 5. If youve sampled the previous Release Candidate (RC), now is the time to download the full version on the link below.

In view no different than previous versions. Only the placement of features Do Not Track relocated to more accessible. Mozilla also claims, Firefox 5 is more lighter than the previous series, so it takes up less memory.

Firefox 5 now also has support for animation css developers more easily create simple animation effects for a site, even without the need to mess around by writing complex JavaScript.

Although offering a more of improvements over the previous version, presence of Firefox 5 still reap a lot of questions. Therefore, many users are wondering why life of Firefox 4 is so fast.

According to James Lee Phillips, analyst and author of the technology, it could be because Firefox increasingly squeezed by the growth of Google Chrome, forcing Mozilla to immediately do a lot of changes. But in terms of appearance, Firefox 5 do not change much from version 4.

As quoted from Softpedia, Firefox 5 can be downloaded at the following link:

- For the Windows version
- For the Linux version
- For the Mac version

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