By default, Firefox runs fast enough. But you can amplify your browsing experience a little bit by modifying a few settings. Usually you have to optimize Firefox manually, but manually configuring - by typing about: config in the address bar and scroll through the page and setting or altering some options are little bit difficult and time consuming especially for the novice user.
FireTune is a free software application to easily optimize several configuration settings for Firefox. According to your specific computer speed and internet connection speed, FireTune will optimize several internal settings of Firefox for better performance
How to tell whether Firefox is faster after optimizing it
After installation, just follow these instructions:
* Clear the cache of Firefox from the Firefox settings dialog - this is very important!
* Before you optimize Firefox, navigate to http://www.numion.com/stopwatch/ and do a speed test on http://www.neowin.net
* The time needed to load the site completely will be displayed to you in the browser window. Write down the time
* Clear the cache of Firefox from the Firefox settings dialog again - this is very important!
* Start Firefox again, and repeat the speed test on http://www.neowin.net/
* Compare the displayed result with the result from the test before the optimization
* Repeat this three or more times
>>Download FireTune
>>Requirements - Firefox v1.x / 2.x / 3.x.
>>OS: Windows 200 /XP/2003 (some system required VB6 run time to run it. Those files are usually pre-installed on Windows 2000/XP/2003. If you get an error message during startup, download and install VB runtime (http://download.microsoft.com/download/vb60pro/install/6/Win98Me/EN-US/VBRun60.exe)-
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This guide covers the installation of Apache, MySQL, and PHP on Ubuntu 7.10 (More commonly referred to as LAMP, or Linux Apache MySQL PHP). Optionally, you can also install phpMyAdmin as a front end for MySQL. We assume that you already have Ubuntu 7.10 running on the machine as well. That said, let's get right into it. The first thing we're going to do is open up a terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal).
Installing Apache
Now we can get started installing. This will take a few minutes, so grab a beer (or your favorite beverage,) and off we go. To install Apache, type or paste this into your terminal:sudo apt-get install apache2
Testing Apache
Once apache2 is done installing, you can go ahead and test it by using:sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
If you get a message that it's already running, you're good to go. Now, open up your browser and navigate to:
http://localhost.
You should see a page just like this. As long as you do, we're ready to install PHP.
Installing PHP
Again, to install PHP, type or paste this into your terminal:sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5
Once it's finished installing, restart apache, using:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Testing PHP
Now, let's make sure that PHP is working properly. To do this, we're going to run phpinfo(). You can, of course, swap out gedit with your editor of choice.sudo gedit /var/www/phpinfo.php
Type or paste the following into the document, and save it. (remove the space before the '?php')
< ?php phpinfo(); ?>
Now we can test PHP by browsing to:
http://localhost/phpinfo.php
You should see all of the info about your PHP installation listed on the page, like so. For security reasons, you should remove this page when you're sure that PHP works.
Installing MySQL
Now we can conquer MySQLsudo apt-get install mysql-server
As MySQL is installing, it will ask you to configure your root password. Make sure that you type it correctly, as it will only ask you once.
Testing MySQL
After that is finished, you can test MySQL by running this, where zzzz is your passwordmysql -uroot -pzzzz
If it brings you to a MySQL prompt, you're done! You can type exit to get out of MySQL.
Installing phpMyAdmin
Now, if you want to install phpMyAdmin to have a front end for MySQL, you can use the followingsudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql phpmyadmin
It will ask you to choose a webserver to configure automatically, you can use the space bar to select Apache2. And after that's finished, restart one last time.
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Finished!
Now you have your own LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) server, with phpMyAdmin.
Useful Commands and Default Locations
To Save yourself some time, you can make launchers for Apache or MySQL start, stop, and restart if you feel the need.Apache
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
MySQL
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart
Locations
/var/www/ -- Document Root
http://localhost/phpmyadmin -- phpMyAdmin
/usr/share -- phpMyAdmin local location
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