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Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.


Fasterbird



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Performance and network tweaks for Songbird.

Fasterbird allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.

Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with the unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing.

A popup blocker for popups initiated by Flash plug-ins is also included

http://code.google.com/p/songbird-othersaddons/




Release Notes

version 2.0.11 - 05/14/10
- maxVersion bumped to 2.0.0a (Songbird 1.7.2 Compatibility)




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Comments

(55)


ninh373409
ninh373409

this add-on makes the web-browser way faster. :P

almost 5 years ago
flynismo
flynismo

Wow, the difference is insane! This is a must have add on. 5 stars!

over 4 years ago
GeekShadow
GeekShadow

@flynismo

really ? if you notice any bugs feel free to post it here =)

over 4 years ago
flynismo
flynismo

@ GeekShadow

Yep, this is just wonderful...I don't get increases this good when I manually edit settings in FF3...
Using this for two weeks, running great so far, no bugs to report yet but if I do happen to come across anything I'll make sure to let you know.

over 4 years ago
GeekShadow
GeekShadow

@flynismo
Thanks :)

over 4 years ago
Steve123458
Steve123458

Very awesome, it really works and works much better than the FireFox version.

The difference is awesome.

over 4 years ago
komomaan
komomaan

How come I don't feel any difference?

over 4 years ago
Hiromacu
Hiromacu

Wow... My bird got speed a lot! I added a new name: JetBird :) lol

over 4 years ago
claytonofbricks
claytonofbricks

This is an excellent add on. Speeds up my browser a bunch! Good work

about 4 years ago
Hiromacu
Hiromacu

Something no good after I upgraded to Songbird 1.1.1, Build 1018 (20090309144748).
The little bird icon and option menu appear twice.
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/7421/fbpic.png

about 4 years ago
komomaan
komomaan

And you can't seem to hide the timer. The button doesn't work.

about 4 years ago
ihanson
ihanson

This is an absolutely stupendous add-on that actually makes the browser more than tolerable. My Chrome was having Gmail troubles, and now even Songbird can load it up real quick!

Hooray and hurrah.
Nice work.

about 4 years ago
Toothpick1000
Toothpick1000

I LOVE this add-on, BUT ever since I've had it Songbird will freeze up everytime I open a new tab or load a new page. It might be the add-on using a large amount of resources, but it is quite annoying to have everything lock up everytime i change the site I'm viewing. I have tried other settings with FasterFox and it still has the same effect. Anyone else have issues?

almost 4 years ago
Hiromacu
Hiromacu

@GeekShadow: Thanks! The status bar now is OK! But the hide the timer option still doesn't work.

@Toothpick1000: I noticed this problem without Fasterbird too. So I think not this add-on causes it.

almost 4 years ago
GeekShadow
GeekShadow

@Hiromacu
Clic on Hide Timer then restart Songbird

almost 4 years ago
Hiromacu
Hiromacu

@GeekShadow: Yes, I realized. Thanks!

almost 4 years ago
mrjake2002
mrjake2002

Bloody brilliant!

over 3 years ago
jpv41193
jpv41193

please update for 1.7.2 beta!

about 3 years ago
klint
klint

Geekshadow

Would you mind adding new tweaks to make search more efficient, by adapting the songbird.dbengine.cacheSize parameter with a scenario like the one proposed by Andrew here: http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20315

Thanks :)

almost 3 years ago
surrealityS
surrealityS

does this affect the actual Mozilla Firefox installed on my computer as well ?

almost 3 years ago
GeekShadow
GeekShadow

@surrealityS
Nope it's separated.

almost 3 years ago
surrealityS
surrealityS

Aww thats sad.. cos i find yours easy to use..not as complicated as those for the actual firefox.

Great job anyway =D

almost 3 years ago



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Name: Fasterbird


Author: GeekShadow

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