I had my eyes on the FastestFox add-on for the Firefox browser for some time now. In the beginning, I thought it was just another add-on to speed up the browser like Fasterfox which tweaks the network performance of Firefox. Turned out that FastestFox, and its FastestChrome clone, offer a lot more than that. The [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox Preloader, Start Firefox Faster
The start up time of the Firefox web browser ranges from almost instantly to half a minute or even more on some systems. This disparity stems from different hardware configurations, installed add-ons, session restore and other Firefox configuration settings. Add-ons for example can increase the start up of Firefox significantly. Firefox loads slower as well [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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QuickDrag, Speed Up Firefox Actions With Drag And Drop
The Firefox web browser offers a variety of add-ons that can speed up specific actions in the browser. Actions in this case mean everything that requires manual interaction, like searching for text in a specific search engine, saving an image on a page or loading an url that is not linked properly on the page. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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SpeedyFox Optimizes Firefox Databases To Speed Up The Web Browser
The switch to storing data in SQLite databases has caused a problem for Firefox users who use the web browser heavily. The databases grow over time and reduce the startup time and responsiveness of the web browser due to fragmentation. This can be largely attributed to the fact that Firefox will not optimize the databases [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Speed Up Firefox By Limiting The History
The Firefox web browser will save visited websites for a minimum of 90 days and a maximum of 180 days in the Firefox history by default. The hard limit is set to 40000 websites that are stored in the History. When that limit is reached old history entries will be deleted from the database that [...]