Freeware of the Moment- FireTune
I love Firefox, it’s full-featured and I’ve added just the extensions I want. I will admit that Firefox can sometimes get a little slow, especially with complicated websites, and I’ve read numerous articles about tweaking the configuration file to get better performance. It can be a bit daunting, so I am very happy to present our Freeware of the Moment- FireTune. FireTune is a little application that uses one user selection to determine all the right settings to be changed. It’s one-click simple and the speed difference in my Firefox browsing is simply amazing after running this once. Be sure and backup your configuration before running FireTune just in case, oh yes, there’s a button for that too. Well worth the free price.
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Nothing wrong with Firefox, but for my money Opera wins every time.
Opera combined with Privoxy… well, surfing Nirvana is here.
Is there a Mac version ? I can only see a Windows version.
I’m stumped. I don’t know which XP version to get!
And are you SURE about this? The one time I tweaked Fox, I got bad results!!
Well, for me it worked. And, yes, I think Firefox is faster now.
Nik, looks like it’s Windows only.
Mike, there’s only one version of FireTune; it’s at the bottom of the downloads. The other downloads are other products.
That’s why the config backup is such a good idea. It worked well for me but if it hadn’t I could have used FireTune to roll back the changes.
Haven’t dug into what this does, but I’m presuming it’s basically the same things you can do by typing in “about:config” in the address line of Firefox.
The biggest thing people have been doing to improve speed is to switch “network.http.pipelining” from false to true. It parallelizes accesses more, basically.
The rest is probably just tuning the amount of simultaneous connections and the amount of cache used, I’d guess.
Meaning there is no real need for this program as long as one is willing to spend a few minutes peeking at what is available to change at “about:config”. One can also try “about:mozilla” for fun… :)