Good new extension for Firefox

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:02 am

Fasterfox. Really makes the Web rip when using Firefox. Fast as hell.

fasterfox.mozdev.org

Take care,
PK

mixdj1 · Post by **mixdj1** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:09 am

Thanks for the link. That's a noticeable speed improvement.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:44 am

it just seems to time the page loads.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:50 am

fsquid wrote:it just seems to time the page loads.

And those page loads are faster with the extension than without it. That's the point of the timer.

Take care,
PK

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:51 am

well, it certainly loads this site faster.

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:57 am

Much faster, danke

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:09 am

Bitte schoen.

Take care,
PK

Boom · Post by **Boom** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:10 am

nice stuff! Thx PK

hjb1 · Post by **hjb1** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:53 am

Good link! Thanks.

Sully · Post by **Sully** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 12:45 pm

Very nice, thanks PK!

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:18 pm

Hmm. Based on the good impression I may try in on my laptop since I' m out a lot but I only have like 1.5 GB left n the HD. Does it hug a lot of memory?

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:26 pm

10spro wrote:Does it hug a lot of memory?

Fasterfox is asexual and not very touchy-feely.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:45 pm

10spro wrote:Hmm. Based on the good impression I may try in on my laptop since I' m out a lot but I only have like 1.5 GB left n the HD. Does it hug a lot of memory?

Massive amounts of disk space. A whopping 33K.

Very few of the Firefox extensions consume much space at all. Many take about the same as an average-length Word file.

I'm addicted to Extensions. I have 16 of them installed for my Firefox 1.0.7 browser now, and every one of them is very useful and makes the most kick-ass browser on planet Earth even better.

Take care,
PK

slimer · Post by **slimer** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:39 am

Care to share any other of those great extensions? I am too lazy to do a lot of checking myself.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:15 pm

My Firefox Extensions lineup:

Mouse Gestures
Googlebar
Image Zoom
Focus Last Selected Tab
WebmailCompose
Undo Close Tab
IE View
ForecastFox
Sage
LiveLines
Copy Plain Text
FasterFox
Adblock
AJAX Yahoo! Mail
ReminderFox
CustomizeGoogle

Take care,
PK

bdunn13 · Post by **bdunn13** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:58 pm

I bet this extension does not make some webmasters happy.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 5:10 pm

bdunn13 wrote:I bet this extension does not make some webmasters happy.

Adblock pisses them off more.

Take care,
PK

ProvoAnC · Post by **ProvoAnC** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 5:56 pm

I'll dig it up, but there is also a change you can make to Firefox. Maybe fastfox is the same thing, but what I had to do was change lines in the program itself. What it does is alter the amount of times your browser will send requests to a website. You can make it higher so instead of sending 1 request it will send 20...much faster load times. Is this the same thing you guys are talking about?

bdunn13 · Post by **bdunn13** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:08 pm

Prov,

What you are talking about is called pipelining.. which is completely different from what this extension does.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/ ... g-faq.html

BD