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Speeding up FireFox and Mozilla
davidnix71:
I'm using an eMac and Panther. Both the OS and hardware are IPv6 capable, but Mozilla's disable IPv6 value is/was "True." The only time I have problems is if I use v92 modem drivers. My isp doesn't use v92, so it becomes very unstable if I try.
I'm still using an older version of Firefox (1.0.4) because it seems every time I want to get the 'latest and greatest' most of my extensions won't work and I refuse to give them up.
mobrien_12:
--- Quote from: Pathos ---If you don't have ipv6 capable hardware I would expect it to fail instantly and therefore not have any affect.
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Not from what I've seen.
There was a big difference between my home and work computer. My home computer was pissing me off. I hadn't noticed it on my work computer.
Your post made me dig deeper. My home computer: Fedora Core 4, which has IPv6 enabled by default.
My work computer: WinXP (yuk) which did not have IPv6 installed (is not installed by default). The speed up was there, but the slowdown was far far less significant.
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Do you notice how there is a gap between when you enter a url and the page title is shown and another gap before the content is displayed?
The first gap is the time it takes to get a dns reply, retrieve the html and process the html. The second gap is the time it takes to download CSS and javascript files and process any initial java script before rendering the page.
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I noticed three distinct gaps. The first was the worst: where it was taking forever while the info bar at the bottom said it was trying to resolve the URL. The second would be your retrieve and process the html. The third would be the CSS and javascript. The second and third are not bad at all, usually because I kill javascript that pisses me off with adblock.
Orethrius:
--- Quote from: davidnix71 ---I'm using an eMac and Panther. Both the OS and hardware are IPv6 capable, but Mozilla's disable IPv6 value is/was "True." The only time I have problems is if I use v92 modem drivers. My isp doesn't use v92, so it becomes very unstable if I try.
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Decent choices - if you have IPv6 capable hardware, other than shortening the load times slightly on IPv4 equipment, there's really no good reason not to have it enabled. As for the modem, it's really a bad idea to run 56k.v92 on anything that can't handle it - just like you wouldn't run a cable line to a DSL modem.
--- Quote from: davidnix71 ---I'm still using an older version of Firefox (1.0.4) because it seems every time I want to get the 'latest and greatest' most of my extensions won't work and I refuse to give them up.
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Seriously? Most of the extensions out there have 1.5.x counterparts, and those that don't - well, let's just say that the XPIs are actually ZIP archives, and you need to change one line of XML within said archive to fix most of them, and let you go from there. ;)
davidnix71:
I've unzipped the xpi files and edited the version number, but I couldn't figure out how to rezip the file so Firefox would accept it as an extension. I have WinZip in Virtual PC and 7-zip. Could someone explain how to rezip the folder into an xpi after editing?
inane:
Sweet
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