Laptop running slow

It is no doubt that the IE browser will become clumsy overtime as different toolbars, bookmarks or favorites was added into the browser and various temporary files been created. Beside clean up toolbars, favorites and temporary files, here are a few extra tips that might help you to speed up the IE8 browser speed. 1. [...]

When surfing the internet, there are two things that determine the speed of the page that is loading. The first is your internet connection which you can’t do much about to speed up. The second is the speed of your browser. There are things that you can do that will make your browser work faster. [...]

If you are new here, you may want to subscribe to my feed or subscribe to us on Twitter! One of the best upgrades from the newer BlackBerry OSs has been the much improved Internet browser. Back when I had my 8830, with its scroll-only trackball function, surfing was okay, but not a remarkable experience. [...]

How to Speed Up Your Firefox Browser ADVERTISEMENTS Firefox, an open source browser, has become the most widely used web browser ever since its release some 5 years back. The following steps will show you how to speed up your Firefox browser. You can read about the latest version of Firefox and download it from [...]

So I just read the statement from the Mozilla Foundation which predicts 10% of the world’s web browsers will be Mozilla-based by the end of 2005. While some people seem pretty excited about this development, I can’t help but wonder if we are settling for too little here. 15 months? 10%? By comparison, every time [...]

This is an excerpt from the ExtremeTech book, Hacking Firefox: More Than 150 Hacks, Mods, and Customizations. This chapter shows you how to speed up page rendering, tune Firefox to your CPU, optimize memory and caching, and more. Hack it, tweak it, and make it scream down the information highway. This chapter covers several of [...]

Hacking Simultaneous Connections To edit these settings, you can use the built-in about:config utility, add the entries to the bottom of your prefs.js, or add them to the user.js file. My preference is the latter because it makes it easier to update and manage all my tweaks and hacks without having to weed through all [...]

some tips might only increase performance for broadband users. * Disable Name Completion and local network lookup Whenever you enter a single word into the address field Opera will look in your bookmarks for that name and try to find a local network with the name as well. Server Name Completion tries to append prefixes [...]

Internet Explorer web browser is used by lot of users to surf the internet. “My Internet Explorer has slowed down, was working very quickly first time I used it“. Ideally, over a period of time Internet Explorer may slow down. This may result is slower website opening and Internet Explorer freezing or causing errors. Following [...]

Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 21:30:02 -0600 From: Rick VanDerveer Subject: Additional tip for the “Browser Performance” page Thank you for the tip for IE 4.5! I’ve long switched to IE because of the advantages it offers, such as using Apple’s MRJ for Java, better handling of cache files, and Appearance Manager-savvy. But, I do [...]