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FasterFox
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The Question
Eternal
Hell, I have to have three simultaneous torrents going just to slow it back down to normal. :lol:
Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
Anyone else experiencing frequent crashing with the new Firefox upgrade (1.5)?
I am. Both at work and at home.
I am. Both at work and at home.
Dark Link
Morituri te salutant
Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
I reloaded the 1.0.7 upgrade (which worked flawlessly for me) to overwrite the 1.5 upgrade, and things are fine again.
The Question
Eternal
Friday said:Thanks a bunch.
Unfortunately, I have literally no room on my hard drive left to download and install it. I can't even download a song from iTunes. The inn is full, so to speak.
I'm looking into external hard drives.
You might also (of course) look into compressing any nonessential files into an organized system, then doing a disk cleanup followed by a good, deep-tissue, full-body Swedish defrag.
Big Dick McGee
If you don't know, now ya know
I use a cable modem at home. Will this upgrade make even a cable modem faster? It currently takes about 1 day for me to d/l four simultaneous 1-hour television episodes.
The Question
Eternal
Big Dick McGee said:
Yes. Much.
Well, it only affects Firefox (it changes some of the settings Firefox uses for caching and displaying web content.) However, if you're using a router, there are some changes you need to make in order to get torrents downloading faster. Access your router's Administration utility, then go to the Port Forwarding section (for a Linksys 4-port Ethernet/2-port telephone broadband router like mine, that's under the "Games & Applications" header.) Set the starting port as 6881 and the ending port as 6990. You should have a drop-down box for TCP, UDP or Both. Alternatively, you may have checkboxes for TCP or UDP. Either way, select both, then check "Enable", then save your settings. Use those same settings on any firewall you may be using, and you should see torrent speeds triple at least.
Big Dick McGee
If you don't know, now ya know
Ummm...I have a cable modem that plugs directly into a USB port on my computer. I don't think I have a router. How can I tell??
The Question
Eternal
Well, if you had a router, you'd know it. 
Mine looks a little like this:
A router basically lets you connect multiple devices to your modem. Right now, I have two -- the first one has my phone, my computer and my wireless router connected to it. My disabled DHCP on my wireless router in order to use it as a simple wireless access point.
Mine looks a little like this:
A router basically lets you connect multiple devices to your modem. Right now, I have two -- the first one has my phone, my computer and my wireless router connected to it. My disabled DHCP on my wireless router in order to use it as a simple wireless access point.
Big Dick McGee
If you don't know, now ya know
Nope, no router. But I'll still install fasterfox, I like to be one of the hip kids, you know.
Friday
Bazinga!
My friend/Mac consultant found 3.5 gigs for me. I was literally down to zero kb. He advised me not to add anything else, because the machine needs a little breathing room to operate.The Question said:
A few well placed comments last night insured that I would be getting a 400 gig external hard drive for Christmas. So, I'll bookmark this thread, and wait till then.
Thanks for the advice, TQ.
Colonel Kira's Left Tit
Bearded Belly of Bajor
^ For what it's worth, you've got plenty of space left to install Firefox. It only takes up 15-20MB. Congrats on the incoming 400GB, though.
As for the extension, it's pretty sweet but my line speed is fast enough to not really need it. I can see how it'd be nice on dialup maybe.
As for the extension, it's pretty sweet but my line speed is fast enough to not really need it. I can see how it'd be nice on dialup maybe.
NeonMercuryASH
beer, I want beer
I just got the faster fox. And it is. good grief, Friday. How big is your HD? I had a record library, 2000 photos, 10 videos plus mozilla, thunderbird, firefox, opera, with 29 gigs to spare on a 40 gigger.