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If you are trying to track down why your computer is running so slooowwwly, try using this simple DOS command from Digital Inspiration to uncover a possible problem:

FireFox is a full-featured rich and fast alternative to Microsoft Internet Explorer. It is also highly customizable and can greatly improve your browsing experience to indulge in a few modifications. The following tweaks are described to the best of my ability, taken from a number of documents, my and my own hacking of the browser to come up with an aggregated list of enhancements.

One of the "features" of Firefox 1.5 is a pop-up dialog that appears whenever a page takes too long to load that reads, "Warning: Unresponsive script. A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete."

Specific instructions on keeping away from inevitableheartbreakandpain.com.

Ever not been able to keep your little clicking mouse from obsessively browsing to that bad, dark place on the web?

Hack your morning with an alarm clock that reads you RSS feeds from your favorite newspapers.

This tweak changes how Windows loads Firefox. If you prefetch the application it will start much faster.

I recently showed you how to keep someone with a guilty conscience from erasing your Internet Explorer History. Now your asking yourself "Can I do the same thing for my homepage?" Yes, my tweakers, you can.

You can use it to keep your sanity -- or to pull a stunt on someone by changing their homepage and preventing them from changing it back. I take no responsibility for the latter option if they get really mad at you (but I'd love to see pictures of the tantrum).

Trust is very important, but nobody has much of it when it comes to computers. I can't tell you how many times I've looked through IE's history after someone (friends, co-workers, strangers at the public library) used my computer. We nosy folks just wanna know, right?

Edit some critical settings to super charge the Firefox web browser's performance

To jump start the speed of Firefox ability to load pages faster, check out these settings edits.