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[avextraxjp]

How do i improve firefox so that it loads faster ?

[SoftStag]

Do you mean load the program, or load web pages?
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-- Bill Gates, on code stability, from Focus Magazine

[avextraxjp]

both, if that is possible

[SoftStag]

Speeding up the time of loading the program is not easy. Basically, you need to ensure that you have plenty of RAM in your system to prevent the use of swap files, and also keep your hard drive defragmented.

In order to tweak Firefox to give you better performance at loading web pages, requires configuring Firefox in accordance with the specification of your PC and internet connection. The following should help, but if you can give me more detail of your PC specification and the type of internet connection and it's speed, then I can suggest some further tweaks.

In the address bar, type about:config and press Enter
Find network.http.pipelining and ensure it is set to True, if not double click to change the value
Find network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set the value to 8
Find network.http.proxy.pipelining and set the value to True
Find nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set the value to 0 (note that this value is often not there by default, if not then right click, select New - Interger, give it the name nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set the value to 0)

These settings enable pipelining which enables multiple data requests, basically speeding up the fetching of data. The last setting slows down the display of the entire page, however it starts to render it sooner, allowing you to start reading the page before it has finished rendering. This gives the illusion of quicker load speeds.
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"Microsoft programs are generally bug-free. If you visit the Microsoft hotline, you'll literally have to wait weeks if not months until someone calls in with a bug in one of our programs. 99.99% of calls turn out to be user mistakes. I know not a single less irrelevant reason for an update than bugfixes. The reasons for updates are to present more new features."
-- Bill Gates, on code stability, from Focus Magazine

[avextraxjp]

Pentium 4 3Ghz, 512MB RAM, Mozilla firefox 1.0
I'm using a 56k dial up connection most of the time

[Steve]

[SoftStag]

OK. So there is more than one person interested in this. I'm not advising everyone on an individual basis, so I wrote this article:

Fine Tuning Firefox
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-- Bill Gates, on code stability, from Focus Magazine

[avextraxjp]

I've upgraded from Mozilla firefox version 1 to 2.0.0.6, I notice there is a slight lag (3 to 4 seconds) when saving pictures as jpeg through right clicking the image and click "save image as "

This does not occur in the previous versions of firefox. I'm saving the jpegs to the C drive and the pics are about 80 to 200 KB in size.

My connection is 512kbps, this problem also occurs on another PC running Win XP SP2 with a similar firefox version.
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[avextraxjp]

I'm also wondering if Firefox downloads the images again when I right click the pic and select save image as. The pics appear in the firefox download box everytime i save them despite I have set 500 MB for cache and clearing it every other day.
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[SoftStag]

You should be running 2.0.0.7 - this is the latest current version. It is important to keep it up to date to ensure that any security holes are plugged.

There shouldn't be a significant delay in selecting to save a picture and it doing it. The file is taken from the cache, not downloaded again. You can test this by disconnecting from the internet before trying to save it. The time will depend upon the PC specification, the number of processes running and the available memory. On my pc with a Core2Duo and 2Gb of RAM, it appears almost instantaneous. I note on another PC with 512Mb RAM and bloated with software it is slower.
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"Microsoft programs are generally bug-free. If you visit the Microsoft hotline, you'll literally have to wait weeks if not months until someone calls in with a bug in one of our programs. 99.99% of calls turn out to be user mistakes. I know not a single less irrelevant reason for an update than bugfixes. The reasons for updates are to present more new features."
-- Bill Gates, on code stability, from Focus Magazine

[avextraxjp]

If firefox copies the file from cache, why does it appear in the download box?
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[SoftStag]

This is just the way Firefox works. Technically the file has been downloaded, first to the cache, and then taken and copied to where you want it.
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"Microsoft programs are generally bug-free. If you visit the Microsoft hotline, you'll literally have to wait weeks if not months until someone calls in with a bug in one of our programs. 99.99% of calls turn out to be user mistakes. I know not a single less irrelevant reason for an update than bugfixes. The reasons for updates are to present more new features."
-- Bill Gates, on code stability, from Focus Magazine