Firefox for the proverbial WIN

I have to admit that this blog is more for my own personal convenience than any other reason; however, if you are an Internet Explorer user I personally recommend that you make the switch. Not only does the Firefox web browser have a kick arse spellchecker for those of you illiterates out there, but it is also completely open source. What does that mean? It means you can configure this bad little beast to do just about whatever specification you want. I'll cut to the chase here and not get to technical. Add-on's and plug-in's are your best friend. In this Blog I'm going to direct traffic towards the essentials in this web browser for the sole purposes of safety and surfing speed. IE users, my best advice to you is to just stop what your doing (forever). I'll use a numbered list here since they are easy to read and (on the obvious) chronological.

1. Download Firefox HERE.

2. Next, install the NoScript add-on HERE.

3. Now you want to remain anonymous yeah? Cool, so do I. Install the Torbutton add-on HERE

Now you are relatively safe. We aren't done yet though.

4. Pipelining. (In English) - We are going to make your web browser load web pages much faster by following these very simple steps (this is where the "open source" aspect of firefox kicks major arse amongst other various reasons):


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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 "6" (to keep the crashing of your fav websites you like to visit to a minimum in case all of your best buddies are doing this as well). This means it will make 6 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.

If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!





**Firefox has hundreds more add-ons HERE, you can also make it look very different with a vast array of themes HERE.**


\m/ <(o_0)> \m/ -- TDK1