Make Firefox Faster

dropCGCF · 12-23-2004, 03:43 AM

I like Firefox because it's so customizable. I see it overtaking IE in 5 years.

GameMaster · 12-23-2004, 04:13 AM

I'll have to try this tomorrow. Thanks for the cool hack.

Typhoid · 12-23-2004, 04:19 AM

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Originally Posted by dropCGCF

I like Firefox because it's so customizable. I see it overtaking IE in 5 years.

Ask a 10 year old kid what "Netscape" is.

IE is the new Netscape.

Null · 12-23-2004, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Typhoid

Ask a 10 year old kid what "Netscape" is.

IE is the new Netscape.

i fail to see your analogy... a 10 year old kid isnt going to know what nutscrape is. i honesly doubt most will know what either is. but they're more likly to know what IE is over what Firefox is. so how is IE the new netscape?

IE still has 90% of the web browsing userbase. Firefox has about 5%, i think they said thier goal at firefox is to have 10% by next year.

Dont get me wrong, IE is by far the very worst possible browser one could get right now. But im not getting what you mean when you say its the new Netscape.

Seth · 12-23-2004, 04:29 AM

seems to work a bit better for me. Thanks for the link!

GameMaster · 12-23-2004, 03:05 PM

I notice the speed, thanks Dyne.

Canyarion · 12-23-2004, 04:20 PM

So how does this work? Does it preload links? Cause I don't want that.

*not sure if that's possible*

Dyne · 12-23-2004, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Canyarion

So how does this work? Does it preload links? Cause I don't want that.

*not sure if that's possible*

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

Canyarion · 12-23-2004, 06:32 PM

And does that cost extra bandwith? Because I have to keep an eye on my data limit.

Null · 12-23-2004, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Canyarion

And does that cost extra bandwith? Because I have to keep an eye on my data limit.

i'd have to say no. cuz your not downloading anything extra.

think of it like a glass of milk is the website

whether or not you drink (download) that milk with 1 straw, or 4 straws, your still getting the same amount.

so a sites a site. it doesnt matter how quickly you download the site, its still getting downloaded.

Dyne · 12-23-2004, 07:14 PM

Web pages are peanuts compared to multimedia files. My estimate is that you wouldn't even download 10 megs just by browsing pages during a period of a month, on low-image sites; however, downloading two or three mp3s (of average size) would use the same amount of bandwidth.

Canyarion · 12-24-2004, 04:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Null

i'd have to say no. cuz your not downloading anything extra.

think of it like a glass of milk is the website

whether or not you drink (download) that milk with 1 straw, or 4 straws, your still getting the same amount.

so a sites a site. it doesnt matter how quickly you download the site, its still getting downloaded.

Huh?

Thanks.

MuGen · 12-26-2004, 12:46 AM

Ie can go a lot faster then Firefox if you tweak your registry settings, but I'm sure you guys dont wanna mess with your registry.

In any case, IE is good for sites like MTV and LAUNCH for playing Music Videos. Whenever I went on Firefox it said I didn't have Windows Media Player Plug-in, and I installed it. I went on MTV.COM LIVE with IE and it recognized it.... so Firefox still has a lot of kinks and bugs to work out of their end.

dropCGCF · 12-26-2004, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Kyuzo

Ie can go a lot faster then Firefox if you tweak your registry settings, but I'm sure you guys dont wanna mess with your registry.

In any case, IE is good for sites like MTV and LAUNCH for playing Music Videos. Whenever I went on Firefox it said I didn't have Windows Media Player Plug-in, and I installed it. I went on MTV.COM LIVE with IE and it recognized it.... so Firefox still has a lot of kinks and bugs to work out of their end.

Firefox can't do cursor trails.