On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 12:37 -0500, David Boles wrote:
But to help your Firefox experience I have four suggestions.
- Install the Adblock Plus extension
This stops all, or most, of those adds and speeds up the pages loading.
- Install the Flashblock extension.
This blocks flash from all sites and you can, as you wish, allow flash from certain sites as you choose.
- Remove all of the languages that you do not need from the extensions.
English is 'built-in' and these are checked for updates each time you load Firefox. Slows down the loading. This has to be done as 'root' and they will be replaced with each Firefox upgrade from Fedora.
- use the squid proxy
Yum install squid
service squid start
goto the services menu and set squid to start on boot in levels 3 and 5.
save and close the window
start Firefox > Edit > Preferences > Connections 'settings...' button
select manual proxy configuration
in the box HTTP Proxy type 127.0.0.1
in the box Port type 3128
check the box Use this proxy for all protocols
click ok
set Cache to 0 (that is the number zero)
click clean now
click close
Enjoy the speed up
Perfect! I had no clue! Squid does a helluva job, I just didn't know about it. Thanks! Ric