Improve Your Web Browser For Free!

MSE_Martin

Browsers are the software used to view the net, 90% of people use Microsofts Internet Explorer, yet Mozilla's Firefox is commonly regarded as beating it hands down & a free 'British' English version is available. It's worth a look (you don't have to get rid of your old browser) as amongst other things it allows free live updates to sites such as MoneySavingExpert!).

Download/Read more about Firefox (the download is top right)

Read about RSS live booksmarks for MoneySavingExpert.com

shrek101

There's plenty of add-ons to for Firefox, Mozilla foundation that develop Firefox call these extensions some examples are HERE . Some of the most popular ones are spelling checkers (great for this site), phising, translators, gmail extension, passwords (save those precious passwords) etc.

You can also customize the look and feel on Firefox, Mozilla call these themes you can get these from HERE

tomthebomb

Am missing A1 Roboform already.
Any good form filler, Password manageing programmes I can use in Firefox 1.0.6?

3dom

Stuff I found that greatly improves Firefoxes Speeeeeed
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Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30.
This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0".
This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

4. Find network.dns.disableIPv6

Double click to toggle it to true and then restart Firefox.
You should notice a speed increase, page to page.

sra

3dom wrote:

Stuff I found that greatly improves Firefoxes Speeeeeed
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Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30.
This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0".
This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

4. Find network.dns.disableIPv6

Double click to toggle it to true and then restart Firefox.
You should notice a speed increase, page to page.

Tweak Network Settings does the same thing and you can toggle switch it back to default whenever you want

sra

tomthebomb wrote:

Am missing A1 Roboform already.
Any good form filler, Password manageing programmes I can use in Firefox 1.0.6?

There is a version of Roboform for Firefox
There's also Autoform

(I haven't tried either)

The google and yahoo toolbars for Firefox have form fillers
Firefox has a built in password manager

shrek101

Roboform doenst work with v1.06 I updated mine this morning with the last build of roboform and the extension but it says on top of firefox where toolbar is, that its unspported. So gone back to v1,05 for now

kit

I am a non techy person whose OH put firefox on my PC without me knowing!

It took me AGES to get use to it but now I would never change back to explorer. I find the 'tabs' are a lot easier to use and the bookmark 'bar' is great.

I would TOTALLY recommend this to everyone.... give it a try!

KiT

PS - OH is trying to convert me to Thunderbird instead of Outlook, I'm not so sure but may run it for a while to see what I think.

rushnowt

Thanks for the link, downloaded some add ons that i needed

try as i might tho couldn't find the damn spelling checker

shrek101

Try this spell checker this works

You need spellbound extension and libraries (libraries are languages)

http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/install

sra

rushnowt wrote:

Thanks for the link, downloaded some add ons that i needed

try as i might tho couldn't find the damn spelling checker

spellchecker is here
Click install halfway down the page. The first time you do it, it'll ask you to click the the bar to allow downloads then go back to the page and try again.

There's also one on the new google toolbar for firefox