Web browsers often slow down after being left open for a long time. Mozilla Firefox is no different. Fortunately for Firefox users however, there is an add-on called Memory Restart that provides an effective solution to the problem. Memory Restart is a free tool coming in the form of a Firefox extension. The add-on lets [...]
Add-ons or extensions are a great way to enhance your browser’s functionality, but this increased functionality comes at a cost of decreased performance. For most browsers, the impact on its load time is negligible, but some can affect it as much as 75%. Mozilla recently analyzed the top 100 add-ons that slow Firefox down and [...]
By connecting peers, torrents offer us a quick way to download large files. But some users experience slow torrent speeds over their slow Internet connections. Here to boost those speeds is a torrent client called BitMate. BitMate is a free torrent client for Windows computers. Its setup file is nearly 20MB and is based on [...]
One of the key elements of a good website design is loading speed. If you want to know how your website stacks up against the competition in terms of speed, then you should check out Whichloadsfaster. This tool lets you easily compare website loading speed against any other site online. Using this tool is very [...]
If you have a really slow mobile internet connection and it takes ages for web pages to load, try using Mobtimizer. This web application can speed up internet browsing on your mobile phone by optimizing the web pages. It removes all unnecessary graphics and leaves only the important content. All you have to do is [...]
Do you get long loading times while browsing the web on your mobile? If that sounds familiar then check out IYHY.com. This site can speed up your mobile internet browsing considerably. The site reduces loading times by removing all unnecessary elements (images and graphics) and leaving only text. All you have to is go to IYHY.com, [...]
If you frequently browse web from dial-up, mobile phone or any other device with a slow internet connection then make sure to check out BareSite. This handy little website strips all unnecessary attributes from the webpages and leaves only the main content. No installation or download needed, simply go to BareSite.com and enter the URL [...]
Finch is a website that makes internet browsing on dialup connection faster and less painful. It can speedup the page loading time by stripping the text styling and other secondary formatting elements from the webpages (CSS, images, Flash, metadata, iframes, etc). From the page: “For example, the New York Times homepage is over 110KB, and [...]