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296I like the adblock extension a lot. In addition to making my favorite sites looredfish-1/31/2005
295Well I got this tweak working and I see no difference. I did my time test and 5Garlic Breath-1/28/2005
294<<It takes a lot of time to open on the initial opening - right after I stEva-1/28/2005
293Yes, I put them in and they seem to work fine, the prefetch helps on loading firMichael Gaudet-1/26/2005
292Michael, Did you try to do this tweak? I just tried it and it said applicationGarlic Breath-1/26/2005
291This is interesting: <i>So why isn't pipelining on by default? What abPatricia Meaney-1/26/2005
290Patricia, how fast things load may have something to do with memory size if multGottfried-1/26/2005
289Here are a couple of things that might help, esp the prefetch shown on this pageMichael Gaudet-1/26/2005
288lol - good idea!Patricia Meaney-1/26/2005
287Patricia, yes - on computer startup a lot of programs initiate without any indicGottfried-1/26/2005
286It takes a lot of time to open on the initial opening - right after I start the Patricia Meaney-1/26/2005
285Patricia, time to open Firefox with 5 web sites in 5 tabs is about 5 seconds forGottfried-1/26/2005
284I wonder if it has something to do with settings on individual computers? ReasoPatricia Meaney-1/26/2005
283I noticed that too and it's even slower with those extensions. It takes a gGarlic Breath-1/26/2005
282Steve, I don't have any extensions loaded on my laptop that I use Firefox wPatricia Meaney-1/26/2005
281I thought the same thing myself when I read it but am always looking to tweak thGarlic Breath-1/25/2005
280~protege, I made the changes and reversed them after I did not notice any speeduGottfried-1/25/2005
279for broadband users only... How to Speed Up Firefox : freerepublic.com I'v~digs-1/25/2005
278Teen Helps Build Firefox Web Browser apnews.myway.com~digs-1/24/2005
277FireFox continues gains against IE By Jim Hu CNET News.com January 21, 2005, 4:4LindyBill-1/22/2005
276I have found some of the keyboard shortcuts are much handier. mozilla.orgLindyBill-1/22/2005
275Use SpellBound. Much, much easier, and 10x faster..... BWTHDIK, ZMZincman-1/21/2005
274Ork Yup, I just found it out, great Thanks, now where is the spellcheck? :) laEva-1/21/2005
273close your browser, reload it, select a word, right click on it, and you'll orkrious-1/21/2005
272I downloaded it, but what now? I can't see it anywhere, you say right clickiEva-1/21/2005
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