Firefox is a great browser, but for some reason it has moments where it seems someone has poured treacle into my PC or the code has been written in BASIC. Quite a bit of this is probably my PC, the randomness of the Internet and other things I can’t control but being a “power user” there must be something I can fiddle with…
Open a new tab and type “about:config” into the addressbar. Look at all those cryptic options! It’s like browsing through /etc or poking the Windows registry with regedit. Fancy a fiddle with the settings? I found two sites that tell you to change things and type in new configuration options – all with the promise your browsing experience will be “faster”. They don’t quantify what this “faster” means, but hey! ignore that and have a fiddle, it seems to have made things load quicker.
Now if only there was a way to make Flash not clog the browser up, or Java bring the whole thing tumbling down.