Boost Firefox with Faster Fox
Published July 11th, 2007 in MozillaFasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with the unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing. A popup blocker for popups initiated by Flash plug-ins is also included.
You can select from variety of settings to kick your firefox to the maximum.
Running firefox and faster fox greatly increased your surfing needs, however many complains from the Webhosting company that firefox with fasterfox double the loads than usual. The real secrets lies on the prefetching technique.
Prefetching is a way to use utilizes browser idle time to download or prefetch documents that the user might visit in the near future. A web page usually provides a set of prefetching hints to the browser, and after the browser is finished loading the page, and after an idle time has passed, it begins silently prefetching specified documents, storing them in its cache. When the user visits one of the prefetched documents, it can be served up quickly out of the browser’s cache.

Prefetching gave great impact to firefox perfomance. No matter how much complains, users always want the best. Get the extension from here.
Works with:
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Firefox: 1.5 – 2.0.0.*
Download : Fasterfox


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