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Dec 8, 2006, 11:21 AM
 
I have been using Safari for quit some time now and today I finally decided to try our Mozilla Firefox 2. I was testing the two browsers and doing run times for websites vs. each other. Safari has the edge in speed however Firefox 2 has better options. Is there any way you an make Firefox faster?
     
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Dec 8, 2006, 11:48 AM
 
Originally Posted by frankthetank966 View Post
I have been using Safari for quit some time now and today I finally decided to try our Mozilla Firefox 2. I was testing the two browsers and doing run times for websites vs. each other. Safari has the edge in speed however Firefox 2 has better options. Is there any way you an make Firefox faster?
Sure is.
     
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Dec 8, 2006, 03:32 PM
 
I don't think that actually works. Everyone that reviewed it said it didn't.
     
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Dec 8, 2006, 09:44 PM
 
It works. Of course, you might not be able to notice any gains.
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Dec 9, 2006, 06:41 AM
 
I read on some Firefox blog that setting the MaxRequests to 30 has no effect. Setting it to 8 seems to have. I don't know what the deal is.
     
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Dec 9, 2006, 07:11 AM
 
Originally Posted by frankthetank966 View Post
I have been using Safari for quit some time now and today I finally decided to try our Mozilla Firefox 2. I was testing the two browsers and doing run times for websites vs. each other. Safari has the edge in speed however Firefox 2 has better options. Is there any way you an make Firefox faster?
You could try the other power-browsers available such as OmniWeb and Opera. OmniWeb uses the same rendering engine as Safari (it's actually using a newer version than Safari is at the moment) called WebKit. Opera uses its own rendering engine.
     
   
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