Add-ons
Mr. Robb
About me
| Name | Mr. Robb |
|---|---|
| User since | March 5, 2007 |
| Number of add-ons developed | 0 add-ons |
| Average rating of developer's add-ons | Not yet rated |
My Reviews
Re-Pagination
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I've been using this extension since Firefox was in beta. Just keep advancing the max version in the .rdf and this sucker just keeps on working.
It's simple, clean and handy as can be. Anytime you search, this extension really pays off because you don't have to read a page - hit next - wait - read [repeat until your finger falls off]. One click and you've got all the pages in one long scroll (if you want; I usually do chunks of 10 to reduce the load times).
Reading a multi-page article online? Repaginate that puppy! No more waiting for all the ads and fluff on page 2 to load, just scroll down.
Got a broadband connection and really want to fly through a multi-page document? Open page 1, repaginate the next 10; duplicate the tab, focus the new tab, jump to page 11 and repaginate again. Go on back to the first tab and read away while Repagination loads up the second set of 10. By alternating tabs, you can seriously speed up your reading!
One caveat, though: If you want to follow a link in a Repaginated tab, you'll lose the repagination unless you open that link in a NEW tab.
Double-plus good extension!
Fasterfox
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Contrary to the previous review, this addon is far from a placebo. Clearly the reviewer never bothered to actually install FasterFox (don'cha just hate jerks who do that?) before commenting.
Myself, before I contradicted hundreds of 'Net gurus who keep FasterFox on their Top 10 lists I think I'd at least know what I'm talking about.
If he/she had done so, then they would have been able to clearly see the configuration changes it makes by simply typing "about:config" in the URLbar and scrolling down to the "network.http" entries. Feel free to try this yourself. Note the changes to things like ".pipeling" and connection numbers. A placebo does nothing - clearly FasterFox does something.
In addition to the "network." tweaks, FasterFox adjusts a few other values in the browser configuration to improve overall performance. The amount of improvement is dependent on non-browser issues, however, so some users will see huge gains and others won't see much. A dial-up user, for example, will never have speed like a broadband user because of bandwidth limitations. Using FasterFox will optimize the dail-up configuration but nothing on Earth can change the fact that it's still a 56k connection. The addon is also limited, naturally, to the browser configuration - if your internet connection config is hosed, FF can't help. Then too, some ISPs and sites have settings that limit FF's effectiveness.
So if you're limited to a dial-up connection, then the link prefetching provided by Net Accel and High Speed CAN improve your performance. If you "want faster internet", then you'll need more than just a browser addon. But if you want to maximize the performance of your *browser*, then FasterFox is the addon for you.
Besides - if you know how to install it, you know how to uninstall it if you don't like it.
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