best firefox optimizer?


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I was wondering what people feel is the best optimizer for browsing, I tried fasterfox before but it blocked gmail, the others Ive seen are FireTune and Google Web Accelerator. Does anyone have any recomendations or maybe I shouldn't use any at all?

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Well Fasterfox is good because it does not have many useless entries and if you choose "custom" or what it is called you dont have to use a fixed preset. So easier than user.js or about:config. Problem you had could have been "Enhanced prefetch" what makes Fasterfox special. See his FAQ on website, bandwidth eater or speed up... Just turn it off and you have easy to use interface for tweaks that matters. If you uninstall Fasterfox it might be a good idea to chose Firefox defaults preset - or last chosen values will still be active in prefs.js I think.

Firetune at least used to have entries which didnt even mean anything. May be it has improved but could be the typical tweaker program = more is bettter, max/min values. Like "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" is best with 0 where some swear by higher values like 500 or 750, 1000 even.

Fasterfox never messed up my Gmail but I didnt use Enhanced prefetch, have also turned off build-in prefetch - cant tell the difference so I conclude I have no need.

This is my "preset" entries in user.js:

user_pref("browser.chrome.image_icons.max_size", 0);

user_pref("config.trim_on_minimize", true);

user_pref("network.prefetch-next", false);

user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 31744);

user_pref("browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers", 5);

user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);

user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);

user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 6);

user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 750);

user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 32);

user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 8);

user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 6);

user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 4);

user_pref("browser.urlbar.autocomplete.learning.mode", 2);

Actually I dont see much need for this though delay thing is nice and noticeable. May be because I also use Adblock and what it does works better with more delay, dont know. Speed is relative, if you do some of those benchmark tests you will probably find no Adblock give better results and yet Adblock is definitely a major speed booster during regular browsing.

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Shouldnt be there, nothing to do with optimizing. Something I found here http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ml/autocomplete/ Think it is redundant today - no dump files I can see. Had forgotten about it.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries should be updated for 1.5? If so it is easy to look up what is active today.

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  • 9 months later...
Most people seem to like the config I posted a while back. It's simply a custom user.js that does most of what all these extensions try to do:

http://www.bangbang023.com/wordpress/archives/227

On the page where it say copy ?%UserProfile%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles? with the quotes, it only seems to wwithout the quotes.

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On the page where it say copy ?%UserProfile%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles? with the quotes, it only seems to wwithout the quotes.

that was a typo probably, most people know it's not to include the quotes

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