Are you like me and have made several changes to your Firefox registry file or “About:Config” file? Well just like any other changes that take time to do you want to back them up so that you will not have to go thru the trouble of redoing all that work. It is pretty easy and painless thing to do all you need to do is know where to go to get to the file that you need which is call “prefs.js” and for your Firefox installation on your desktop computer it can be reached by clicking on your start button, [ Read More ]
In previous posting’s I have mentioned several ways that you can tweak Firefox to speed it up. Now there are all kinds of different off the shelf so to speak applications that will make these tweaks for you without you having to even tinker with the inner workings of Firefox. Those are good and I have seen significant browsing speed from my previous tweaks but the one that I want to tell you about today is quick simple and very effective. I now see my webpages load about 50% faster. By going to a blank address bar in Firefox and [ Read More ]
If you are like most folks even though you may now have a fast Internet connection that is still not enough. You are still looking to wring just a little more speed out of your surfing experience. Well here today we have some quick tips for speeding up your web surfing experience using one of the three most popular browsers. If you do not have a broadband type connection to the Internet these tips will not be as helpful but you will still notice some improvement in your web surfing. Internet Explorer: Remember to always make a backup copy of [ Read More ]
So what do you do if you have Firefox installed and you have it setup just the way you think you want it with all the best extensions and all the most usefull GreaseMonkey Scripts and then it crashes? I had this happen to me for the first time this past week and needless to say I was a little miffed. I tried to use Windows XP’s system restore to fix what ever it was that I had done to crash things. But that did not help. I tried to uninstall Firefox. Then to reinstall it. I even tried to [ Read More ]
