FireTune [FireFox]

[Tami]

UPDATED

v1.0.2 - April 27th 2005 - Service release

** Fixing a few issues with screen font settings larger than 96 DPI
** Some changes to the online update version check
** Some optimizations to a couple of tweaks
** A couple of changes to the helpfile
** New languages included: Bulgarian, Danish, Estonian, Norwegian
** New setup included since the old one was not working properly under certain circumstances.
  A version of FireTune that does not require installation can be downloaded from <a href="http://www.firetune.com" target="_blank">http://www.firetune.com</a>

Visit firetune.com for the newest installation <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... /smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':)\' />

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FireTune - the very first automated optimizer for Firefox
- used by more than 250.000 people -
... and still counting ...

FireTune for Mozilla Firefox v1.x was developed for an easy and fast optimization of your browsing experience with Firefox. It is based on a collection of popular and well working optimization settings used and tested by the experts. Usually you have to optimize Firefox manually, which can be time consuming and difficult for the novice user. FireTune helps you here - it includes all the performance optimizations. The only thing you must do is: make your selection. FireTune does the work for you.

How to tell whether Firefox is faster after optimizing it with FireTune

There's a simple way to tell whether Firefox works faster after optimizing it with FireTune. Just follow these instructions:

*Clear the cache of Firefox from the Firefox settings dialog - this is very important!

*Before you optimize Firefox, navigate to http://www.numion.com/stopwatch/ and do a speed test on http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

*The time needed to load the site completely will be displayed to you in the browser window. Write down the time

*Clear the cache of Firefox from the Firefox settings dialog again - this is very important!

*Now, close Firefox, and optimize it with FireTune

*Start Firefox again, and repeat the speed test on http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

*Compare the displayed result with the result from the test before the optimization

On our testmachine we noticed a speed improvement of 1.25 seconds - the loadtime was 3.99 seconds before optimizations, and 2.74 seconds after optimization.

FireTune is available for free.

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[mobil1_oils]

[b][i][color=\"gray\"][font=\"tahoma\"]I actually got around to using this program yesterday, and it was great. I am on a 1.5mbps connection, and firefox is now noticably faster with most websites that are able to provide that bandwidth.

All round this program speeds up the way firefox loads webpages with literally no side-effect. Highly recommended download. [/b][/i][/color][/font]

[Trinity]

Went from 06.910 to 00.731 <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... iggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':D\' />

[Vercz]

[color=\"green\"]thats a nifty little app...another reason to ditch IE and <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... >/GWTP.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'(gwtp)\' />

lol, my scores

(8:18:26p) +vemo | Before: 06.399
(8:18:26p) +vemo | After: 04.856

gotta be happy with that <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... /smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':)\' /> [/color]

[mobil1_oils]

[b][i][color=\"gray\"][font=\"tahoma\"]Just ininstalled the tweaks and did 2 tests (always good to to 2, even better to do 3 if you want to get a decent idea of a fair result, eliminates flukes.)

First 2 tests without the tweak, cache cleared between each attempt:

04.16
04.500

And the last 2 tests with the tweaks installed, cache cleared between each attempt:

03.859
03.672.

Also those of you interested in increasing your performance of firefox even further, i urge you to check out Josh`'s thread about [u][url=\"http://forums.killagraphix.com/index.php?showtopic=4079\"]Secrets of Firefox 1.0[/url][/u].

Some very great about:config tweaks there, although i highly suggest making a backup of your config files. [/b][/i][/color][/font]

[NightStorm]

I have no idea if it worked for me or not... since without the tweak, I was still hitting under a second to load the page, with the tweak made no apparent difference (in fact, with the tweak, it was ever so slightly slower).
Perhaps if I track down a significantly larger page or something...

[Endo]

Nothing like a dialup users opinion
Done without tweak: 32.977
Done with tweak: 35.371

Obviously not a tweak for everyone <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... igwink.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\';)\' />

[Trinity]

Yeh, because there is no option for "really fekking slow connection" <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... ntlaf2.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'(laf)\' />

[us3rX]

well the sites load just fine for me, most in under 2 seconds so yeah, no need to try to make it a few hundred milli-seconds faster... but seems like a nice tweak <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... >/good.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'(Y)\' />

us3rX <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... /ph34r.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':ph34r:\' />

[radar]

Before: 5.7
After: 3.2
Difference: 2.5 seconds.

This is at school and they've got an uber connection so I'm surprised it takes so long to load a single page.

[radar]

And at home.
Before: 1.297
After 0.915
Edit: Oops <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... >/blum.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':P\' /> Those times are for loading my own site, but it does show a good improvement.
Firetune <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... >/good.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'(Y)\' />

[Endo]

Heh; had to make a new post to bump this topic; forgot editing the original wouldnt <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... >/blum.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':P\' />

[i]* edit; posts this here to so that people will actaully see it[/i]

[b][size=7][color="blue"]UPDATED[/b][/size][/color]
[quote name=\'changelog\']v1.0.2 - April 27th 2005 - Service release

** Fixing a few issues with screen font settings larger than 96 DPI
** Some changes to the online update version check
** Some optimizations to a couple of tweaks
** A couple of changes to the helpfile
** New languages included: Bulgarian, Danish, Estonian, Norwegian
** New setup included since the old one was not working properly under certain circumstances.
  A version of FireTune that does not require installation can be downloaded from [url="http://www.firetune.com"]http://www.firetune.com[/url][/quote]

Visit [b][i][url="http://www.firetune.com"]firetune.com[/url][/i][/b] for the newest installation <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... /smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':)\' />

[Josh]

Thanks for the info Endo! Getting ready to use it now! <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... iggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':D\' /> <img src=\'http://www.killanet.net/forum3/public/s ... >/blum.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':P\' />

[mobil1_oils]

[b][i][color=\"gray\"][font=\"tahoma\"]New computer, 1gb of ram, 2.0ghz processor.

Before tuning:
01.31
01.16
01.110

After tuning:
0.781
0.734
0.875

EDIT: After changing many settings in about:config relating to memory and CPU usage, along with alot of other network settings in there aswell (all found through the link i posted in one of my earlier posts, and links found on that page aswell) and these are my new times:

0.454
0.469
0.515

(Site was already cached in all of these tests, cache was not cleared.)
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