Improve Firefox Browsing, Streaming, Download Speeds & More With Fasterfox

Firefox isn’t a slow web browser by any means, but with a little bit of tweaking and fiddling around, you can make it even faster. This is exactly what Fasterfox aims to do.

Fasterfox is a small extension for Firefox that adds several ways to speed up the browser. It is designed to boast upload and download speeds, reduce page load times, and can make video streaming faster.

The add-on comes packaged with a few presets that let you swiftly switch between different levels of performance.

Fasterfox gives you control over various options. Just key-in ‘ctrl+shift+a’ in Firefox, go to the Extensions section and click Options. A new window will appear and you will see two tabs – ‘Presets’ and ‘Fasterfox’.

Presets carry a bunch of different profiles that allow you to quickly switch between different levels of performance improvement, namely ‘Default/Normal’, ‘Courteous/Light’, ‘Optimized/Medium’, and ‘Turbo Charged/Strong’.

For instance, Default/Normal keeps Firefox settings at their default, while Turbo Charged raises performance to maximum. If you’re a casual user, using these presets should suffice. Advanced users, on the other hand, might want to tweak performance settings on their own via the ‘Custom’ option at the bottom of the presets tab, which also unlocks the remaining tabs (‘Cache’, ‘Connection’, ‘Pipelining’, ‘Rendering’, and ‘Popups’) in the Options window, each carrying its own set of tweaks.

Under the Fasterfox tab, you can toggle ‘Enhance Prefetching’ and specify certain keywords for links you don’t want to prefetch when loading pages. Another option within the same tab lets you enable or disable a page load timer.

Install Fasterfox Extension for Firefox

Source: Addictivetips