Speeding up firefox 3

In the about:config enable the setting network.dns.disableIPv6 (double click will suffice).
Then install the Flashblock Firefox extension to load the Flash stuff only when you want.
Additionally try to use the fastest SDD drive for the FF cache, instructions below:

• Open a new tab and type about:config into the address bar.
  
• Right-click anywhere in the lower part of the screen and choose new->integer.
• Name the new setting ‘toolkit.storage.synchronous’
• In the second popup, set the value to 0 (zero). This tells the browser not to wait while writing files.
• Create a new string called ‘browser.cache.disk.parent_directory’
• Set its value to ‘/dev/shm/firefox-yourusername’. This tells the browser to use a RAM disk instead of the SSD.

The above procedure placaes the cache in the RAM, however this means it will be lost when shutting down the computer.

update Xandros to Firefox 3

Looking to upgrade to firefox 3 under the original Xandros distribution, after some trial and error I came to find that Asus has actually published updates for Firefox 3 and associated stuff like Flash Player. To do it add this entry to the apt source file

deb http://update.eeepc.asus.com/1.6/ common main

(comment out the original entry). Now the following command will upgrade to Firefox 3 and Flash Player 10 (only partial output shown):

# apt-get update
# apt-get install firefox-upgrade

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
adobe-flash-player firefox firefox-extension-default firefox-locale-de gtk2-engines libc6 libcairo2 libdatrie0 libglib2.0-0 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common
libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libthai-data libthai0 locales tzdata
Suggested packages:
glibc-doc libc6-i686 ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-thryomanes ttf-baekmuk ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gkai00mp ttf-arphic-bkai00mp
librsvg2-bin
Recommended packages:
libglib2.0-data x-ttcidfont-conf
The following NEW packages will be installed:
firefox-upgrade libdatrie0 libthai-data libthai0
The following packages will be upgraded:
adobe-flash-player firefox firefox-extension-default firefox-locale-de gtk2-engines libc6 libcairo2 libglib2.0-0 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common
libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common locales tzdata
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