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Google Web Accelerator

Posted by samzenpus on from the google-faster dept.

Lukey Boy writes "Google has released a free web accelerator product for both Firefox and Internet Explorer. According to their information page the software uses Google servers as a proxy for web content, delivering the pages to your system more rapidly and compressing them beforehand."

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 1, Troll

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. Re:Smart. Scary. by SunSaw · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Google Web Accelerator blocks Yahoo! mail.

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    --When it's my time, I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather -- not screaming like all the passengers in his car
  3. Re:Smart. Scary. by MerlinTheWizard · · Score: 0, Troll
    What's next? Hopefully a calender.

    (A calendar.) Great, so now they'll know what you search for, what you visit *and* what you are going to do in the future. You're right, not much freedom left after that one...

  4. Speed up your browser without the help of Google.. by b3rs3rk3r · · Score: 1, Troll

    Some simple tweeks to your browser, or registry (if you are using IE). http://www.swedegoingberserk.com/2005/04/speeding- up-firefox.html Basicly you increase the number of connections your browser can use to download content, ie your browser can download everything on a page at once instaed of doing a couple items at a time. It really makes a differece on "busy" sites with lot of content. IE is set to defualt to use 2 measly connections...