Firefox is an internet web browser like Microsoft's internet explorer. Firefox is product from a software company named Mozilla. Mozilla has a dedicated team of developments and testers for the features development and maintenance of the Firefox web browser. Firefox is a freeware and has features equivalent to any other browser in the software market. This browser is a free browser and is worthy to have the features incorporated in it beating the other web browsers.
Mozilla firefox has an added advantage of having lots of add-ons which makes this browser stand unique compared to the other web browsers. There are many user and developer created add-ons which can be used to customize the features and looks in the web browser. There are many features like security features, music players, weather reports and many more available as add-on which you add additionally in your firefox web browser based on your needs and requirements. This customizable add-ons feature in mozilla browser gives the advantage of having user defined features in the web browser.
Since the firefox browser is still in development stage, having few open bugs in it, some people ask for the tips to make the browser work faster than any other free web browsers. There is another add-on available called FasterFox which is developed by an independent developer to tweak the speed in firebox browser. This is a free add-on which can be downloaded from Mozilla webpage. Many people have experienced the increase in the speed in web browsing after the add-on is included in the firefox web browser.
FasterFox is found to have accelerated the speed of loading a webpage. When compared with the other browsers, it is observed that the time taken for loading a webpage is reduced by few seconds. FasterFox, by the way of its working as a browser, has increased the amount of processing power and the way the browser sends the page request per second to get the web page contents to be displayed in the browser. Some of the settings in the firefox browser exceed the recommended specifications and even create strain of the web servers. But this will problem on the web server will not impact your system or network connection performance. When many computers access same website through firefox installed with fasterfox, the web server may undergo stress and may crash also.
Some of the web servers can take the overload and can deliver the requested pages faster. FasterFox also can be configured to pre-cache the pages received. This means whenever you visit a website, FasterFox will take a snapshot of the webpage, its contents and can store it in the browser cache. When you visit the website again later, the FasterFox browser can use the stored content and display on the browser without having to contact the web server again to download all that information which is already stored in the browser cache. Even though many other browsers do similar cache mechanism, FasterFox is said to be doing this action faster and with very minimal effect of the CPU performance.
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