SpeedyFox - Boost Firefox in Single Click!

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Not sure if this has been covered before, but appears to be a Firefox tweaker.

http://www.crystalidea.com/speedyfox

Promo text from them: "Mozilla Firefox is a fast browser, but with the lapse of time it starts working much slowly. The reason is fragmentation of profile databases. A free tool SpeedyFox is designed specially to resolve that problem. The method used in SpeedyFox is 100% safe for your profile (e.g. bookmars, passwords, etc), it's well documented and tested on many computers."

Every disk I/O and CPU time slice counts, I think I am going to add this to my "magical thumbdrive" . :p
 
Bummer, not available for Mac? It seems like if its tweaking things in the program itself it would be available for other platforms as well? Maybe by "profile databases" its registry tweaks related to FF in the Windows registry. Let us know how it works.
 
I downloaded it and used it inside a virtual machine. Not sure I can really tell much difference. Does anyone know of a site I can use to test the speed of the page render?
 
My 1000th post ... Lets make it a good one..

@Gunslinger

Hello brother ! Haven't seen you in a while ? Thought you'd abandoned ship.
Any news on that project you where doin' a while back ? I think it was some form of Bootable Tech CD ?

Anyways ... Stumbled upon this just for you from LifeHacker..

http://cache.lifehacker.com/assets/resources/stopwatch.php

Drag and drop the 'Time this page load' link to your bookmarks toolbar, and you can time any page load ;) And of course once you go to it once, its cached and will load faster next time..
 
Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for.

IE took 2.127 seconds to load

Firefox took 1.051 seconds to load

1.268 seconds to load after the tweak....lol


As for my Tech CD project, well lets just say I should have listen to my own advice and backed up my data. :o
 
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I consider myself lucky to have never experience data loss once, but I still synchronize my folders to an NAS AND run my hard drives under RAID mode wherever possible. I even make occasional drive clones when I feel I need to do so.

On topic though. I don't like using things like this because they tend to suck up precious bandwidth from websites that are otherwise completely innocent. These things usually just increase the amount of connections you can make to a server, something you can easily do with about:config in firefox. without the bloat of having to install an entire plugin. Some more sophisticated programs probably do more now, but I'm not entirely sure about that.
 
I'm just curious JosephLeo, do you find the NAS drive "slow"? After doing lots of research, I determined that the best way for me to back up was still USB HDD. Sure, I could add another HDD to my system internally for ultimate backup speed, but I'd read that NAS really isn't much faster than trying an online backup service. And I've tried those; much too slow to be worthwhile with my bandwidith. And the online services would eat up a lot of bandwidth while you were trying to get "real" work done. Almost like the old days when you were trying to download antivirus updates and surf the internet at the same time. On dialup.

I'd also read that NAS isn't very good when you're trying to stream video or audio; it just can't keep up, and hiccups a lot. Care to verify or negate this?
 
Well, out of the box is will be VERY slow just because of the sheer amount of data you need to transfer to your box. but once you get that first step you can just set it to synchronize the folders every so often. I set it to sync all my media folders every Night at 2:00am and then shut down the PC afterward. After all I have to be careful about my electric bill and more importantly my "carbon footprint"

Also, you can totally use NAS while working on your computer. Think of it as having an external hard drive. As for video streaming, it really just depends on the quality of the hardware and connection. I've never noticed any hiccups aside from when it's syncing itself with my PC & Laptop.



UPDATE Also I forgot to mention that as far as hardware goes- it depends on how many users. Since It's just me I can use literally anything. I made my own NAS using a Mini-ITX motherboard with an Atom 330 Processor, 1GB of RAM, and 4 1TB hard drives Hardware cost = $190 plus $350 for the hard drives back then... Powered by FreeNAS. NAS is just essentially a server made for centralized data storage.
 
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I've been using SpeedyFox for a couple of months now and it does make a difference to Firefox startup times. Firefox startup was getting a bit lethargic at startup times.

It's the little apps like this that help set Firefox apart as the most robust and reliable browser solution. Open Source FTW.
 
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