Thursday 15 December 2011

How To Make Firefox Faster

Now-a-days there is a big debate on which is the fastest Internet browser. Many would suggest that Google Chrome is the fastest and it may be. But a real Firefox fan would never leave Firefox for other any browser even if they are fast. One of the Firefox's bad point is it uses to much memory and as the extensions and addons increases this problem is often noticed. This ultimately slows the Firefox's performance but there are many tricks which you can use to speed up your Firefox. Here are some of them.

This are some tricks to tweak the configuration setting of Firefox, for this type "about:config" in Firefox's address bar. You will see a message, press the button " I'll careful, I promise"

1) Reduce the RAM reserved for cache feature in firefox. 
While surfing Firefox reserves some of the RAM for caching. This can adversely affect other process including Firefox. Using the filter search for " browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer.  The Default value is -1, change it to 0.

2) Increase the page load speed. 

  1. Search for "network.http.pipelining" it's default value is "False" change it to " True ".
  2. Search for "network.http.proxy.pipelining" it's default value is "False" change it to " True ".
  3. Search for "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" it's default value is "4" change it to "10".
  4. Now right-click on this window, then select New>integer. A box will appear, in it type "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set it's value to "0".
3) Save RAM while Firefox is minimized.
Right-click on the window, then select New>boolean. A box while appear type in it "config.trim_on_minimize" and then set it's value to "True".

TORRENT TIPS

Torrents has revolutionized p2p file sharing. Internet without torrents would have been really dull. So here are some tips to make your experience with torrents more fruitful.

1) Never try any optimizing techniques given on the web, like tweaking the settings in torrent client, i have tested many of them and found out that they were of no use, instead they degraded my utorrent performance. i am not saying that all of them are completely useless but some tweaks that have worked for a handful may not work correctly with everybody.

2) Choose torrents wisely from the sites which you are familiar with and confirm whether they are safe. according to me the best sites for torrents are "pirate bay" and "isohunt".

3)Always see the comments given by the earlier downloaders to check the authenticity of the torrent. you may ignore 2-3 bad comments out of many, as many times the file doesn't work due to the downloader's own mistakes.

4)Never change the upload speed in your torrent client if  your ISP is providing you with unlimited upload bandwidth, lowering it may lower your download speed also.

5) If you are downloading many files simultaneously but you think the client should give more preference to one particular file. Just right click on it and set the 'bandwidth allocation' to "high".

6) Avoid using "update tracker" option. Use it only when you think there is really need of it.

7) Use torrent only if you have higher Internet connection than 512kbps because for a 512kbps Internet connection torrent gives a downloading speed of 30-35 kbps while normal downloading from sites like rapidshare will give you speed of 40-50kbps. So first try to find files on file sharing sites like Rapidshare if you don't find the files there you are free to download from torrent.

Personal Note:- This my is my personal advice and some reader may disagree with some points, they are most welcome to present their thoughts.

Cracking Adobe Products

Adobe is one of the leading software companies in the multimedia fields. Most of their products are at the top in their category. So lets see how you can crack this software by restricting them from connecting to their server. Some may think why go through all this trouble, just download the software and use any key. But it is not that easy. After using the key the product connects to its server and checks whether the given key was used earlier, if yes then it discards it and asks the user for a new one. The solution to this is to restrict the product from connecting to the server. So here is how do it.

Step 1) Download the extended trial of the Adobe product from their site.

Step 2) Download this file DOWNLOAD

Step 3) In the above folder you will find a file called "hosts" just copy it and paste it in C --> WINDOWS --> System32 --> drivers --> etc.

Step 4) When you start the product it will ask for key. Find any working key for the product and use it. Thats it. ENJOY !!!