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| Speed up Firefox |
| Monday, December 18, 2006 |
Speed up Firefox
There is a lot you can do to really speed up the way Firefox loads pages. It involves making a few changes "Under the hood".
While all of what I am saying below is still valid, there is a great tool
you can go download called Firetune (http://www.totalidea.com/freestuff4.htm).
Firetune lets you choose a mix of settings based on the speed of your computer and the speed of your internet connection then simply make a few mouse clicks, restart your browser and you're done. Or, you can perform your own tweaks:
To really speed up Firefox, you should create your own user.js file with some recommended settings. The user.js is just a text file in your profile folder. Where is your profile folder you ask? Well, that depends on your operating system (OS). Go here to find out where yours is. In Windows XP, it is located in
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.###\
I spent quite a bit of time combing Mozillazine to determine some accurate settings.
I put together a user.js and commented it with sources of the information. You can see it here
(http://users.tns.net/~skingery/weblog/user.js).
The thread on Mozillazine about fine tuning Firefox is here |
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