FireTune – Tweak, Tune and Optimize Firefox 3 to Load Website Faster
Firefox is one of the widely used browser all over the world. Due to its high security and flexibility, people prefer to use it. But there is always some room for further improvements and tuning.
One option to further enhance the performance of firefox is by manually changing the values in “about:config“; (type it in the address bar, without quotes). Newbie’s will find it really hard to tweak this way.
Another useful alternative, that I found to optimize firefox is using FireTune – a freeware that enable you to optimize several internal settings of firefox for better performance.
Since the process is fully automated, you don’t have to regret of not knowing the “geeky” stuff. Select from the available options that suits your requirement and FireTune accordingly.
The simple way to tell whether Firefox is faster after optimizing is to follow these instructions.
- Clear the cache of Firefox from the Firefox settings dialog – this is very crucial!
- Before you optimize Firefox, navigate to http://www.numion.com/stopwatch/and do a speed test on http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
- The time needed to load the site completely will be displayed to you in the browser window. Write down the time
- Clear the cache of Firefox from the Firefox settings dialog again – this is also very crucial!
- Now, close Firefox, and optimize it with FireTune
- Start Firefox again, and repeat the speed test on http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
- Compare the displayed result with the result from the test before the optimization
It is based on a collection of popular and well working optimization settings used and tested by the experts and has been download 2.5 million times, and includes everything to tweak firefox.
Please note that it DOES NOT modify/change firefox’s executable file, or any other binary file that firefox may be using. Feel secured while using it. Mozilla Firefox v1.x, 2.x and 3.x are fully supported by FireTune.
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This is great! My Firefox on my laptop has been acting up recently and not loading pages correctly. Maybe this can help.