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	Garcel	2011-05-12 , 11:06
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Hi guys.

Garcel here from the philippines.
This is a add-ons (Fasterfox) which works in my country that really makes the browser of the N900 (Microb) faster.

Update 9/18/11

Fasterfox version 3.9.7

Fasterfox Lite Version 3.9.1 - without the Enhanced Prefetching

"Speed DNS".
This add-on does DNS pre-resolution of all the links on a web page and hence saves the extra second that it takes to lookup this information when you click on a link. No more starring at your web pages till it loads.

install it here

Having installation problems?

1) You restart MicroB but still nothing happens?

Code:

Originally Posted by Carlito
Use filebox and remove everything from the:
/user/.mozilla/microb/extensions/
folder.

2) Notification is telling that "Microb could not install the file because not a valid install package" Error 207

Code:

Source
Retry - after clearing your cache - the next time you're connected to the internet.

Update:

Addban Add-ons
Blocks ads, ad popups, cookie trackers and spyware on the web. basically. no adds on a websites will load the page much faster.

Feed backs

Originally posted by Changegames
salamat... yup its faster

Originally posted by N900faniam
works really well, much faster browser. thanks

Originally posted by Jovica666
Thanks!I`ve installed it but I can`t say/or I can`t notice that MicroB is faster now...anyway spread the good news around

Edit:-Actually....it is faster

Originally posted by toxaris
Atleast SpeedDNS cuts 5-7s while loading www.DN.se.

Originally posted by eL.ectron1k
Thanks, i've forwarded it to Russian official group of Nokia

Originally posted by corduroysack
installed and it does seem faster

Originally posted by eefo
working awesome
great work .

Originally Posted by MaDless
working for me and it looks like MicroB is slightly faster...

Originally posted by Ministeri
I was very skeptic about SpeedDNS making any difference in speed, but seems I was wrong.

It seems to take away (partially) the long delay between entering the address and microb starting to load the page.

Originally posted by Maj3stic
Wow this is amazing, I feel like the browser starts up faster as well and pages load almost instantly, sorry to those having troubles but once you get it you will be happy

Originally posted by titi974
indeed, this seems faster thanks

Originally posted by rizbert
Installed both and it does certianly seem quicker.
Nice 'easy' way of speeding up browsing

Originally posted by bltcool
thanks for the trick btw, microB is much, much faster ^_^

Originally posted by mohi2k7
works very well actually thanks mate

Last edited by Garcel; 2011-09-18 at 20:17. Reason: Updated Fasterfox & it's lite version

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	blipnl	2011-05-12 , 11:22
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- How can you prove that file and source are reliable?
- Instructions needed besides 'install it'?
- What will be changed?
- Who has developed and tested this?

Nonetheless, I am interested in improving the speed of MicroB.

[EDIT] Thanks for the kind responding, have installed and notice the improvement. Kind regards! [/EDIT]

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Reffyyyy	2011-05-12 , 11:33
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http://www.prekshabansal.com/speed-u...ith-fasterfox/

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	dr_frost_dk	2011-05-12 , 11:43
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just tried this in ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop, and it seems to work, would say some pages loads 2x as fast

don't know about microB, can anyone confirm this on microB

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MINKIN2	2011-05-12 , 11:52
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So I take it this is just a packaged list of all the changes that we would normally make in About:config yeah?

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	Garcel	2011-05-12 , 11:55
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I don't promise this add-ons to work around the world. We just tested and it seems to work

@blipnl
Thanks for the heads up. Just want to make the thread simple.

@reffyyyy
Thanks for posting the source I forgot about it.

Just post feedbacks. if you guys want to close this thread I'll close it for you no hard feelings Im just sharing.

Last edited by Garcel; 2011-05-12 at 11:58.

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	eefo	2011-05-12 , 11:58
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instruction for installation please

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AndiThebest	2011-05-12 , 12:05
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so, fasterfox downloads linked pages on each website?
this would incrase data traffic and decrase battery life, right?

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	ndi	2011-05-12 , 12:05
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Don't mean to be a behind, but fasterfox had so many issues I had to kill it in several incarnations. For one, it assumes I should use RAM to preload things. In a portable browser, RAM and CPU is limited, while bandwidth is respectable at 54 MBps.

Using the same wifi, Microb is slower than a laptop, obviously due to RAM usage and CPU when rendering.

It might deliver, but it didn't for me. Only a few sites were slightly faster, as the expense of memory. Also, bandwidth was never my issue, it might be for you.

Just adding my experience. Good luck.

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