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 -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
