Intermittent Disaster

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 12:37 -0500, David Boles wrote:

> But to help your Firefox experience I have four suggestions.
> 
> - ---------------------------------------------
> 1) Install the Adblock Plus extension
> 
> This stops all, or most, of those adds and speeds up the pages loading.
> - ---------------------------------------------
> 
> 2) Install the Flashblock extension.
> 
> This blocks flash from all sites and you can, as you wish, allow flash
> from certain sites as you choose.
> - ---------------------------------------------
> 
> 3) 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.
> - ---------------------------------------------
> 
> 4) 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
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