Fasterfox or Tweak Network ?

jamjar

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Hi there So following on from a thread about Fasterfox ,and is it any good ,i want to know which of these 2 are best ,or what the views are about them :
Fasterfox or Tweak Network add ons ?
Is one better than the other ,or are they much of the same ? :confused:
 
I've dabbled with Fasterfox and couldn't find any noticable performance improvements.

In addition to that, I don't really 'trust' the features it implements. Link prefetching doesn't fit into my usual web browsing workflow and it just uses up bandwidth unnecessarily. A lot of the network tweaks may be advantageous to the end user, but are rather unethical when you look at them from a web developer's perspective – bombarding servers with simultaneous connections and pipelining, I believe, is a source of much aggravation. These network tweaks can be implemented by editing some variables in about:config, anyway, so there is no real need for Fasterfox in that sense.

The Tweak Network Settings extension is largely similar in that it just utilises the existing configuration capabilities in Firefox and acts as a front-end. Even then it's not a whole lot of use – if you don't understand the terminology browsing through about:config, you're not going to understand it when its thrown at you in a seperate window!
 
I have used both & i can say that tweak network is the better.
I see many ppl who have used fasterfox & say they see no difference but all comments from ppl that i have seen that use tweak network say they see a difference.
Yes tweaknetwork is just a front end for firefox internal network setting but it makes life easier as most ppl don't understand them all & all that most want is getting firefox browsing fast as possible hitting the Power Profile did the trick.

Nowing how it works is irrelevant in this case.
 
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