Fasterfox - 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 allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, cache, pipelining, DNS cache, and initial paint delay...
A millisecond accurate page load timer tests the effectiveness of your settings and a popup blocker for popups initiated by Flash plug-ins is also included.
Here are some key features of "Fasterfox":
· Prefetch Links - Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with Firefox's unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing.
· Tweak Network - Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.
· Page Load Timer - A millisecond accurate page load timer tests the effectiveness of your settings.
· Block Popups - A popup blocker for popups initiated by Flash plug-ins is also included.
· Locales included for Argentine-Spanish, Brazilian-Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, and Turkish.
Requirements:
· Requires Firefox 1.0 - 2.0
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Added support for Firefox 2.0.
· Added the following 11 locales: Spanish (Argentina) (es-AR), Spanish (Spain) (es-ES), Frisian (fy-NL), Hungarian (hu-HU), Lithuanian (lt-LT), Portuguese (Brazilian) (pt-BR), Portuguese (Portugal) (pt-PT), Russian (ru-RU), Swedish (sv-SE), Ukrainian (uk-UA), Chinese Traditional) (zh-TW)
· Fixed bug which caused OK and Cancel buttons to not display properly in some locales and themes
