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Watch an Adobe flash file without a Web browser

Many sites provide Flash Video (FLV) and Shockwave Flash (SWF) formatted video files. There are FLV and SWF plug-ins for Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) and other Web browsers. To view FLV and SWF formatted files without a Web browser, you need a standalone player with FLV and SWF plug-ins. You can download a popular FLV [...]

How to Boost FireFox speed

To boost the performance of FireFox 1.5 or later, you need to install extra add-on named FasterFox provided by Mozilla. To download this add-on, go to
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269
FasterFox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.
Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with the unique [...]