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> Useful Firefox things, 1 addon 1 program
Vectris
post Oct 7 2008, 09:10 PM
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For me, this add-on and program were life savers.

The first is simply getting your home page to open when you open a new tab. It was always annoying when it was blank and you had to type something in.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/777

The second is an uncommon one, and a 3 years old one that still amazingly works for FF 3.0. It's called FireFox Startup Enhancer.

I'm not sure how many people get this problem, but I've noticed it on my computer and on those of my friends. When you first boot up the computer, and let everything load, FF will still have an extreme minute or too of jerky lag that makes browsing impossible. Then after a minute everything instantly goes smoothly. This is because FF is being loaded into your computers RAM (or something like that) during that first minute. FF Startup Enhancer will load FF into your RAM on boot up, and it doesn't increase the boot up time by anything noticeable at all.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffpreloader/
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- Vectris   Useful Firefox things   Oct 7 2008, 09:10 PM
- - laubri   Thanks for the tip about Homepage in New Tab. I re...   Oct 16 2008, 11:59 PM
- - Micha'El   Every time I install FireFox on a machine, I alway...   Feb 1 2009, 04:42 PM
|- - chulo   QUOTE (Micha'El @ Feb 1 2009, 04:42 P...   Dec 24 2009, 02:02 PM
- - Abydos   Hi Micha'El Being a fan of Firefox, there are...   Feb 1 2009, 05:16 PM
- - Micha'El   Awesome, It's always nice to have more tips to...   Feb 1 2009, 08:28 PM
- - Konfucide   Thanks for the awesome adds.   Feb 2 2009, 04:00 AM
- - Blowwish   QUOTE (Vectris @ Oct 7 2008, 10:10 PM) I...   Feb 2 2009, 10:38 AM
- - Abydos   Hi all A "little" update since my last ...   Feb 24 2009, 03:29 AM
- - Ztruker   Vectris Abydos, many thanks for the Home Page tab ...   Feb 24 2009, 08:37 PM
|- - Abydos   QUOTE (Ztruker @ Feb 24 2009, 08:37 PM) A...   Feb 24 2009, 08:43 PM
|- - MalwareHunter   QUOTE (Ztruker @ Feb 24 2009, 09:37 PM) V...   Mar 6 2009, 09:31 PM
- - Trevuren   For those of you like myself who prefer to use Fir...   Mar 6 2009, 01:17 AM
- - Abydos   Hi Trevuren Excellent utility to FX . I have u...   Mar 6 2009, 01:24 AM
- - Ztruker   Mozbackup doesn't work for me. I've tried ...   Mar 6 2009, 09:16 PM
- - tallin   For me it is GHost 12 for my PC and Acronis 10 for...   Mar 6 2009, 09:33 PM
- - Jkc73   LinkExtend is the latest addition to my collection...   Jan 1 2010, 04:31 PM
- - Jkc73   An excerpt from an article on Firefox's securi...   Feb 1 2010, 08:20 AM

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