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Re: [LUG] Disabling Firefox / Epiphany prefetch

 

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:16:31 +0000, Henry Bremridge
<henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Came across the following email on the gnupg-users mail-list. 
>
>http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/03/20/how-to-disable-prefetching-in-firefox-epiphany/
>http://lwn.net/Articles/139725/
>

Thanks Henry
That really speeded up Firefox startup on my XP box as well :-)
All the unnecessary links it downloaded got Virus Scanned :-(
The 30 second pause until my bookmarks menu is usable has gone.

best regards
Dave
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