Categories:
Browsers Supported:
Firefox 1.5
Firefox 2.x
Operating Systems Supported:
Windows
Mac OS X
Linux
About Web Browsers Summary:
"The Fasterfox add-on for Firefox speeds up your browser by utilizing a series of network and performance tweaks. Idle time is taken advantage of using a content prefetching mechanism to help you achieve the fastest load times possible. Also including a popup blocker focused on Flash plug-ins, this extension can help you get the most out of your browser."
Publisher's Description:
"Performance and network tweaks for Firefox. Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay. Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with the unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing. A popup blocker for popups initiated by Flash plug-ins is also included."
Fasterfox Review:
"The Fasterfox add-on works behind the scenes to turbo charge your Firefox browser when it comes to loading web pages. By overriding the browser's built-in prefetching feature with a more powerful version, most links are silently loaded in the background before they are clicked. This effective use of idle bandwidth speeds things up tremendously. Couple that with improved rendering techniques along with pipelining requests and you have a vastly improved browsing experience."
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