FireTune is a free software application to easily optimize several configuration settings for the Mozilla Firefox webbrowser. FireTune is based on an article on TweakFactor (http://www.tweakfactor.com), however - similar optimization guides can be found on lots of Firefox related websites. Actually it automates the procedure of optimizing the browsers preferences for faster browsing with the FireFox webbrowser.
System Requirements:
This software has been tested on Windows XP only. However - it should also run on Windows 2000 / 2003.
Since this is a tuning software for Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox is therefore required. On some systems the Microsoft Visual Basic runtime files might also be required. Those files are usally pre-installed on Windows 2000/XP/2003. If you get an error message during startup of FireTune, please download and install these runtime libraries from the Microsoft website - download here.
FireTune versions vs Firefox versions:
From time to time people ask whether the version number of FireTune is somehow related to the version number of Firefox. This is NOT the case. Any version of FireTune will work with any version of Firefox 1.x as long as we do announce that you need to update your version of FireTune for a specific version of Firefox. So: FireTune v1.0.3 for instance is not limited to Firefox v1.0.3. The FireTune version number does not indicate any limited compatibility to a specific version of Firefox.
How to tell whether Firefox is faster after optimizing it
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.neowin.net- 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!
- Start Firefox again, and repeat the speed test on http://www.neowin.net/
- Compare the displayed result with the result from the test before the optimization
On our testmachine we noticed a speed improvement of 2.05 seconds - the load time was 9.47 seconds before optimizations, and 7.42 seconds after optimization.
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