You might suffer from slow page loading of some website. It may irritate you. Here is a option in Opera to fix it. Opera 10.5 version has been released and it comes with new features and one of the important update in this version is the turbo mode. Turbo mode in Opera 10 increases your internet bandwidth speed on slow connections using data and image compression technologies. This feature uses Opera proxy servers to compress the traffic before it reaches the Opera browser installed in any PC.

This turbo feature can be configured on your Opera and to do this, right click on the bottom left corner icon and select configure Opera Turbo.

In the configure box, you can set the mode of turbo. It can be configured to be automatic, On or off.

The settings are
* Automatic: Turbo will enable only if it detects a slow network
* On: Optimize pages with Turbo so they load faster on slow networks
* Off : Load pages normally
* Notify me about network speed: Network speed indicator becomes visible within the Opera Turbo icon on the Status Bar

Select Automatic, it will be the best option according to my browsing experience in Opera. Happy browsing =)

In previous posts i have given some tips and tricks, now comes the tweak part for Firefox. Follow the steps given below to experience a difference in your browsing speed:

Step 1: Write “about:config” in address bar (without quotes)

Step 2: Search for entry “network.http.pipelining” and change its value to “true”

Step 3: Search for entry “network.http.proxy.pipelining” and change its to “true”

Step 4: Set entry “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to anywhere from 30 to 50.

Step 5: Right Click on the page and select New, then Integer. Name it as “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and put its value as 0

That is it. You have done. Now restart your firefox and get ready for a speedy browsing.

Happy browsing =)

You may feel that Firefox is such a memory burden. Sometimes when you try to open up a few tabs, it starts to slow down your whole system. You can do something about it. Here are simple tips and tricks to reduce Firefox memory and cache usage

Reduce memory usage when minimizing

1. Start up Firefox
2. Type in about:config in the address bar and hit Enter
3. Right click and choose New > Boolean
4. Type config.trim_on_minimize in the pop-up box and hit Enter
5. Select True and hit Enter.
6. Restart Firefox

Reduce session history

browser.sessionhistory.max_entries determines the maximum number of pages in the browser’s session history, that is the maximum number of URLs you can traverse purely through the Back/Forward buttons. The Default value is 50.
We usually won’t surf more than 5 of the websites we previously surfed before, and there is really no need to store more than that in the session which can clog up memory as they grow.
1. Open Firefox
2. Type about:config in the Firefox address bar
3. Press CTRL-F and search for browser.sessionhistory.max_entries
4. Double click on the value 50 (or whatever value is there currently) and change it to something lower such as 5.
5. Restart Firefox.

Fixed cache capacity OR Disable Cache Totally

Every time new page is loaded, Firefox will cache the page so it doesn’t need to load again to be redisplayed. By default, this setting is set to -1 for browser.cache.memory.capacity and to a number you specified in Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Network / Cache for browser.cache.disk.capacity

To fix your cache to a certain value:

*browser.cache.memory.enable and browser.cache.disk.enable needs to be True for this to work
1. Start up Firefox
2. Type about:config in the address bar and hit Enter
3. Search for browser.cache.memory.capacity and set a number in KB to use for the memory cache (ie. 1024KB = 1MB).
4. Search for browser.cache.disk.capacity and set a number in KB to use for the disk cache (ie. 1024KB = 1MB).

To Disable the cache Totally

Set both browser.cache.memory.capacity and browser.cache.disk.capacity to 0.
Alternatively, you can also set browser.cache.disk.enable and browser.cache.memory.enable to False.
Finally to Check Firefox Memory Usage

Type about:cache?device=memory in the address bar and hit Enter. Firefox will display your current number of entries, maximum storage size, storage in use and inactive storage.

That’s it.

If you’re experiencing slow file transfer speed while you’re copying or moving files in Windows Vista. Even though the issue was supposed to be fixed in Windows Vista SP1, most people will find that the transfer speed is still very slow in Windows Vista even after applying the SP2 upgrade. Here is a simple trick that you can apply to make file transfers a bit faster in Vista.

The trick is to turn off “Remote Differential Compression”. You can try doing this by going to

Control Panel > Programs and Features > Turn Windows Features on or off and uncheck Remote Differential Compression

That’s it. You are done