Fasterfox For Mac

Fasterfox is a streamlined Firefox extension designed to provide various network teaks and performance improvements to your browser.

The add-on was created to make your web browsing faster by loading webpages more quickly, as well as to make your downloads and uploads run more smoothly.

Fasterfox works out of the box after installing it, but you can set various options from the Preferences window. By default, you can choose between five different presets from the Preferences window: Default, Courteous, Optimized, Turbo Charged and Custom.

A major feature which you can enable is the enhanced prefetching. This means that your browser can use idle bandwidth to cache and download links in the background, making them ready for use when clicked.

You can, however, filter this option by specifying which links not to be prefetched in the Fasterfox tab of the preferences. An additional option in the same tab is the page load timer enabler.

Another parameter that Fasterfox allows you to customize is the browser cache allowance. You can easily increase or decrease memory and disk cache capacity from the Cache tab of the settings window. The same can be done to the DNS cache expiration and entries.

You are provided an option to increase or decrease the number of HTTP connections your browse makes. Increasing the number will speed up the loading speed of webpages containing images or other content.

In addition to this, you can enable the pipelining functionality and set the maximum pipelining requests. Pipelining can boost the loading speed of sites to a great extent by allowing multiple requests to be sent to a server without waiting for responses to the previous requests.

Rendering is also an important criterion which can improve the performance of your browser. With rendering enabled, you can set your own values to the initial paint delay and submenu delay.

To sum things up, Fasterfox can boost the speed of your browser considerably by bringing various tweaks and by allowing you to customize the right settings.