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For Firefox Sake!
« on: March 28, 2005, 03:23:20 PM »
hum,
i know that a few of u out there use Firefox v1.x....

Here are two tweaks that will turbo boost your surfing (just been released: but tested by me and they work)

1) For those with a brain try this link...

or this onepage (save page as) version from yours truly

look for the bit where it says `FireFox on Steriods banned from Olympics`...




2) For the `beginners` (and not as powerful) try FireTune 0.6 it`ll preform an easy and fast optimization of your browser.  

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Re: For Firefox Sake!
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2005, 09:21:41 PM »
Hum,
Tnx,
Yeah i should have said something along the lines of `not going overboard with the connection numbers`.

With dial up you could use a number like 4 - though experimentation helps.

With broadband you could try a number like 10 - 20 (or higher)...

i personally wouldn’t bother with increased CPU load, (as i run seti with 10-15 applications and it’s always at 100% usage) - but for very slow processors then the hack may not be suitable.

It`s simple case to `undo` though.


@T3000

Forget the software utility, do it by hand.
(see the `steroids` webpage)

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Re: For Firefox Sake!
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2005, 09:55:11 PM »
Hum,
I suppose you`ll next be telling us that you`ve already added a value of fffffe to the DWord, TcpNumConnections, in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters register,
 To increase your default connections as well?

(assuming you got sp2)


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Re: For Firefox Sake!
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2005, 06:53:24 PM »
Hope you`ve all updated your browser to version 1.0.4

It`s got a few critical security holes fixed, including all javascript vulnerabilities.
There are currently no known active exploits of these vulnerabilities although a proof of concept has been reported."

See...

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Re: For Firefox Sake!
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2005, 08:20:32 PM »
Today Firefox has released a patch and a configuration workaround for a Firefox vulnerability which could allow remote code execution.

If you are using Firefox you should type 'about:config:' in the URL box at the top of the Browser.
Now, type 'network.enableIDN' into the second box that appears.
Verify that 'network.enableIDN' is set to 'false'.

Rightclick  to toggle.


This will cure the bug - or wait untill V1.5 is fully released...

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Re: For Firefox Sake!
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2005, 10:41:24 PM »
Hum,
yeah,
Tnx, my typo....

No colon or space...

about:config

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Re: For Firefox Sake!
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2005, 11:28:46 PM »
Hum,
so you set it as

nglayout.initialpaint.delay

With a value of 0 rather than 1000?