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Another day, another program that spreads misinformation. You would think by now people would do five minutes of research before providing others with advice. In this case the FireTune Tweak Utility made by TOTALidea falls for the old /prefetch:1 shortcut myth. FireTune claims to improve Firefox performance using Placebo effect tweaks like this? I wonder how many other useless tweaks are included in this utility?



Ryan Myers of the Microsoft's Windows Client Performance Team has already debunked this Myth months ago. Yet judging by the download numbers at MajorGeeks over 600,000 people have been suckered in, lovely.

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TSThomas Junior Member Posts: 2 Joined: 2003-05-10

#63192 Posted on: 11/07/2005 08:55 PM It's not just Firetune, I've seen several windows tweak guides recommending this same switch. Funnily enough, even a few Firefox guides do - that's probably how Firetune picked up the tip too.

TSThomas Junior Member Posts: 2 Joined: 2003-05-10

#63193 Posted on: 11/07/2005 08:58 PM Actually, now that I think of it, the biggest placebo/misunderstood setting in Firefox is nglayout.initialpaint.delay

LoVMephisto Junior Member Posts: 10 Joined: 2003-09-07

#63202 Posted on: 11/09/2005 08:42 AM @ author Wow, thanks for that useless piece of information! Go rant in your crappy blog about it but keep trash like this out of W2S!

bolan2005 Unregistered

#63494 Posted on: 12/03/2005 06:16 PM very good

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