FasterFox is a new Firefox extension which apparently speeds up Firefox. Looks like it just tweaks a bunch of those things that people have mentioned before (connection numbers, etc). I get a noticable speed increase, but it could smash webservers by the looks.

will try, thanks.

much love trog <3

does seem to load pages much fasterer. Sweetas!

Oooh... there's a little fox in the bottom right who tells me how long each page takes to load! The extension was worth it just for that!

just installed it its awsome there is a noticable diference

Is Firefox worth using? I never have issues with IE and how much stuffing around is there to get the links across as well.

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ill pretend you didn't say that rev.

once you go firefox you won't know how you lived without tabbed browsing.

I've been using it for a few months. It's pretty good except for ONE site which rejects me (despite using conservative settings):

http://www.dnsstuff.com

Try to perform a whois (or someting else) from within that site and you get:

FORBIDDEN: Pre-fetching abuses our website.

If you are using the FireFox extension 'FasterFox', it is very poor and will block you from websites that it abuses. Please uninstall it (and perhaps add a comment to the FasterFox page. If you are not running it, you are running some sort of poor extension that pre-fetches pages that it shouldn't (ones without a 'link' marker). Once you have done this, you can re-load this page. Note that if you do not remove the rogue program, you will continue to see this message occasionally

I haven't bumped into any other problems though :)

i cant possibly see how pages can load faster than they do in ie

u guys must have slow internet connexions

get over it IE sux. Just use firefox.

f*** me. Firefox is way quicker than IE when I'm browsing QGL. Although I don't like the way it scrolls down sorta jerky like. I'll give it a go for a while and see what happens but so far I'm impressed with the speed.

Gonne check some porn sites to see if they load quicker.

LOL

tools->options->advanced->browsing->use smooth scrolling

Although I don't like the way it scrolls down sorta jerky like

Turn off "Use Smooth Scrolling" in Options->Advanced.

Then install the SmoothWheel plugin: http://smoothwheel.mozdev.org/

Scrolling with the mousewheel now becomes extremely smooth and pleasant :)

tools->options->advanced->browsing->use smooth scrolling

No, no. It's much better to turn OFF the in-built "Use smooth scrolling" and install the 3rd party plugin instead.

The in-built smoothscroller is jerky and crap compared to that plugin. Try it and see. It's the first plugin I install on fresh installs of Firefox :)

last edited by parabol at 12:49:33 29/Dec/05

so what are some other useful firefox plugins?

I can't find where to download that smoothwheel thing. Is there a hidden download option on that page?

8-)

I can't find where to download that smoothwheel thing

On that site: click Resources->Installation, then click Install.

so what are some other useful firefox plugins?

Adblock plugin, using Pierceive's filter set (2005-12-11a.txt)
FireFTP (useful upload/download FTP client)
MediaPlayerConnectivity (allows videos to open in another program with 1 click, instead of needing an in-browser plugin to view them. Also allows direct links to videos to be extracted easily)
CuteMenus (nice cosmetic improvement to right-click menu)

Holy s*** Batman!.. that is a LOT faster.

WD Trog.

now i have the smoothwheel install. scrolls smooth but very slow. there is not extension icon for it and i cannot find any option menu to change the setting. how the f*** do i get rid of this hunk of s***?

Tools -> Extensions

Select it from the list and click the Options button to change settings, or the Uninstall button to... uninstall.

yeah it wasn't showing up before. i just reinstalled and now it's there. phew.

I'm extremely impressed with Firefox so far. I can't believe how much faster it is.

Thanks trog!

8-)

You didn't have access to this menu under Extensions?

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~boldajis/images/smoothwheel.jpg

By the way, with FasterFox I'd suggest altering the Initial Paint Delay (Rendering tab) down from the default of 250 ms to something like 50 ms. (but not 0 ms, as that will cause several initial repaints and make it a little slower than having the slight delay)

yeah i installed the later build and it bypasses the profile or something (thus it didn't show up in extension). so i installed the earlier one which deleted over it i am guessing. one day it will crash and i will delete all of the gadgets and start again.

Firefox enables you to spam faster

Only thing I dont like about firefox is I am way retarded that I cant install quicktime shiz or whatever, so some pages I always gotta open in IE.

There should be a massive pluging called "Massively Leet plugin" that has shockwave, java, and any other s*** that c***s use on there s***ty webdoobies.

firefox is stopping you from installing those warm turds as a favour. if it's in quicktime i doubt it will be worth downloading.

While we're on the topic of extensions, here's another good one for people that have access to their net usage data as an XML feed - it allows you to customise your toolbar (right click on the toolbar and select "Customize...") and drop on a usage bar that displays how much you've used and have remaining in the current month, etc.

DownThemAll! is also good for grabbing images from dir listings, forums, etc and you can filter for different file types (movies, documents, images) and so on.

ctd,

Only thing I dont like about firefox is I am way retarded that I cant install quicktime shiz or whatever, so some pages I always gotta open in IE.

grab Quicktime Alternative. All Quicktime files open correctlt in your FireFox browser

netusage is very good. i give it 5/5

I have real and quick alternative. Didnt know you could use it for firefox :S

I also find ReminderFox useful.

Just noticed my name doesn't come up in online users in Firefox but it does with IE.

Hmmm.

I've been using it for a few months. It's pretty good except for ONE site which rejects me (despite using conservative settings):

http://www.dnsstuff.com

Try to perform a whois (or someting else) from within that site and you get:

FORBIDDEN: Pre-fetching abuses our website.

If you are using the FireFox extension 'FasterFox', it is very poor and will block you from websites that it abuses. Please uninstall it (and perhaps add a comment to the FasterFox page. If you are not running it, you are running some sort of poor extension that pre-fetches pages that it shouldn't (ones without a 'link' marker). Once you have done this, you can re-load this page. Note that if you do not remove the rogue program, you will continue to see this message occasionally


I haven't bumped into any other problems though :)

parabol, I just tried doing a whois and A name lookup and it works just fine using the default "Turbo charged" setting. I haven't tweaked any other settings because it's working just fine as is.

I've been using it for a few months. It's pretty good except for ONE site which rejects me (despite using conservative settings):

I just did a whois on qgl with that site in firefox. worked just fine.

Domain Name:QGL.ORG
Created On:01-Oct-1998 04:00:00 UTC
Last Updated On:22-Aug-2005 02:58:29 UTC
Expiration Date:30-Sep-2008 04:00:00 UTC

that's not all of it, it's like 2 pages long.

edit: yeah net usage item is great but transparent background for the win
http://images.ausimages.com/upload/2005-12-29/TN_netusage.png

last edited by whoop at 14:12:48 29/Dec/05

Under Linux, I can only perform a whois using Courteous or Default settings.

Under Windows, I can't even view the MAIN dnsstuff.com page if it's on Turbo Charged, much less be able to even attempt a whois :/

why would you even want to use a website for whois in linux? just go to a command prompt and type whois blah.com. Worked on my linux box anyway, slackware I think.

why would you even want to use a website for whois in linux?

I wouldn't.

The point is, there were early claims that optimising Firefox's network settings would lead to problems and/or bannage from sites. I used to think that claim was BS until I came across that site. Luckily, it's merely one out of thousands of sites I've visited, so it's not much of an issue =)

I've posted too much in this thread. /out

how do u set up the netusage extension so that it appears in the toolbar?

view - toolbar - customeize toolbar

Awesome plugin. I can certainly notice the speed change. Thanks trog!

ta fade. i went in there but it wasnt there before but now it is :/

Does this plugin optimise your firefox for a broadband connection? Would it be worth me grabbing it since I use ISDN? I don't want it to f*** up my firefox and actually make it load slower or something because its trying to open heaps of connections at once or something crazy.

Also, another Firefox worth getting imo is Flashgot. I use it heaps, pretty much when I download anything that allows the use of a download manager, especially when theres a few files I wan't because I can just pass them to Flashgot which then queues them up in Getright and downloads them one at a time in a nice orderly fashion. If theres a list of files on the page, you can even highlight all the text on the page and tell Flashgot to parse it for links and grab all the files it finds, that came in really handy when I was sucking down lecture notes and sample code for uni off our student portal (because apparently my programming lecturer doesn't believe in zipping).

that sounds like a rip off of flashget khelly

I don't want it to f*** up my firefox and actually make it load slower or something because its trying to open heaps of connections at once or something crazy

The Options menu gives you several choices:

* Default: Restore all settings to their non-optimised Firefox default values.
* Courteous: Rendering tweaks only, does not increase server load.
* Optimised: Network optimisations for increased performance within the RFC specs.
* Turbo Charged: Maximum performance, exceeds RFC Specs.
* Custom

On top of that, you could even uninstall it if it's not to your liking. There's not much to lose trying ...

Just installed, it's awesome

much <3 for firefox

with the netusage where is says start day of usage month do u just put in the date like 01/01/06?

Holy crap thats fast ... i'm going to need a little time alone with fasterfox and a box of tissues!
Ta Trog :)

It actually takes a little longer to open a page I havn't been to before but one it is cached it's MUCH quicker than before even when a page was supposedly cached.

last edited by Xy at 18:14:22 29/Dec/05

everyone on the site comments said its s*** house ? wtf

So anyone know how to make FF not lock up for a few seconds when you right click save image as?

So anyone know how to make FF not lock up for a few seconds when you right click save image as?

no... If you find that one out please post here

Sif this extension is new =P

Ps, the only real difference between optimised and turbo charged is a ff will attempt a few more connections (network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 6 vs 8), which really wouldn't put that much extra load on any web server, seeing as some people have been using upwards of 16 in firefox tweak guides.

PPS, don't use the 'advanced prefetching' option unless you don't care about bandwidth, or feel like adding every image heavy site to the exclude list. In an earlier build I watched firefox chew threw a few hundred megabytes in a few minutes. Also, like someone said earlier, some sites take a low view of this as it's very much like shoddy web spiders and leeching bots.

last edited by eXemplar at 03:53:36 30/Dec/05

i don't get any lockups when saving pics. weird

I use IE and Netscape 7.2 myself,might give this a go.

Me either (pics saving). Very slight delay (almost like a hiccup) when I select the option from right click but nothing I would have noticed without someone having a massive problem with it.

I don;t have adblock installed on this machine tho, could be something to do with that? I knwo it chucks some stuff into the FF's right-click menu.

Awesome thread - thanks for FasterFox and that smooth scrolling s***!

my spamming has increased by 11% since I installed fasterfox.

maybe it's flashgot?

i'll talk you through what happens so you can test it

i right click on the 'post reply' image on this forum and select 'save image as'
i hit enter straight away to save it in to the default directory as default name
it then sloooooooowly pops up the download manager
and then eventually it saves the file
and then the 'one file downloaded' or whatever pops up down the bottom right of my screen
and then the mouse pointer goes from the sand-timer to normal pointer and i can continue

all up it takes between 5-10 seconds to save the 'post reply' image on this forum from once i've chosen its name and hit enter.

the same thing happens if the 'downloads' mini window is already up (as it was during this test) so it's not a case of it taking a while to open the new window.

This is on a dual core x64 w/ 2gig of ram, and happened on my single core x64 as well so it's not a dual core thing.

^ Works fine here. 1/2 second to save. No flashgot installed.

i uninstalled flashgot and disabled adblock but it still takes several seconds to save an image from this forum.

It locks up for a few seconds when starting to download a file for me too (not saving an image, havent checked that actually).

sweet as

mine doesn't lock up because I always maintain a safe distance

i cant possibly see how pages can load faster than they do in ie

u guys must have slow internet connexions

You obviously don't know much about how web browsers work, or for that matter anything about networked applications.

learn2notbegay

f*** me please...been using this all day and all i can say is god damn this pisses all over IE,im converted!

One question though,when downloading images larger or longer than the screen,it seems to center itself on the picture,sany way to stop this?