[vox-tech] Speeding up FF

[Alex Mandel]

Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> On Sun 17 Dec 06, 12:26 PM, Jeffrey J. Nonken <jjn_lugod at nonken.net> said:
>> On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:50:45 -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>>> http://www.metacafe.com/watch/333720/lightning_fast_browsing_trick_f
>> or
>>> _internet_explorer_and_firefox/
>>>
>>> I can't watch this video.  It simply says I need to upgrade Flash
>>> Player.
>>>
>>> Can someone please watch this on IE and share the gist of the idea?
>> It says basically the same thing for FF as here:
>>
>> http://jnork.livejournal.com/172830.html
>>
>> I can summarize the IE section too, if you like. IE requires a
>> registry hack.
> 
> OMG!!!
> 
> That is one helluva speedup!  I'd say that this makes FF at least as fast as
> how I remember Opera being.  Nice!!!
> 
> Highly recommended!


This is included in a popular Firefox addon I've been using for a while 
Fasterfox. http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/faq.html

Which does a bunch of other things to, even prefetching if you want it to.

Alex