i've been tuning my firefox lately, and i must say the results are noticable!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

here is a tool that will automatically tune your firefox for you:

 

 

 

http://www.totalidea.com/freestuff4.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

if u wish to go deeper into the settings and the meaning of settings, i can recommend these sites:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/edit - finding how to configure your firefox manually

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=53650 - about tuning settings (and ALOT about em. this is a 26 pages thread)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.tweakfactor.com/articles/twe ... eak/4.html - a howto on all the usefull manual settings, these do thesame as the FireTune tool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i hope it helped u guys, cya!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Alfa

Novice users beware, these are advanced configuration settings and should be modified with care, if at all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why does Firetune need to be an exe? Why can't they just make it an extension?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personally, I've modified these setting manually without the use of any other programs. A slight increase in speed, but not all that much.

Okay, you're asking users to either get an executable we don't know, from a site which is in no way connected to the Mozilla Foundation (as far as I can tell). Or to modify .js files, which is a *very* outdated way of configuring Firefox. If you want to configure Firefox, you should either use the Tools > Options window (as much as possible) or about:config (for anything else you want to do).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They could have just made an extension instead of an executable. Now we don't know what it will do, and we are just supposed to trust the authors (which is not the case with extensions on update.mozilla.org (UMO for short) which need to be approved before being admitted, so at least there's some guarantee they won't totally mess up your computer (and a solid organisation to complain to if they do).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The above will get you just as far, and will get you the same speed improvements, but without the security risk. Sounds a whole lot better than getting a random executable and praying it'll work (and not mess up your computer).

the program does thesame as what u guys to to the about:settings .... it was just a hint, it helped me alot, both on my fast and my slow comp.

.... Or to modify .js files, which is a *very* outdated way of configuring Firefox. If you want to configure Firefox, you should either use the Tools > Options window (as much as possible) or about:config (for anything else you want to do)....

 

 

 

 

 

 

user.js just creates entries in about:config.... It also keeps them there when you update firefox.