Speed Up Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox comes with a wealth of add ons to do everything from downloading videos, saving favorites, checking the weather and many more. They can be very helpful, but if your internet is running slowly, if your clicks are taking forever to get to the selected pages then listen closely. The problem is more than likely “Add On Overload”. This is how you fix it.

Close all browser windows except for one. In your Firefox browser window, go to the top and click Tools/Add Ons. The Add Ons window will come up listing all of the add ons you have installed. Go through them all and select “Disable”. Close Firefox and re-boot your computer. When it comes back up, go back to Firefox and do some surfing as usual. Do you notice a difference? Is it faster? Do the links respond quicker? If so, then you know the add ons are your problem.

Now decide which ones you cannot live without and make a list of them. Go back through the motions as laid out earlier and bring your add ons window back up. All of your original add ons should still be listed there, but you should see a tab that says “Enable” where before it said “Disable”. Take your list of add ons you can’t live without and enable them one by one. Close Firefox and restart it after re-enabling each one. Do some surfing after this step and see if your browser speed is still at the level it was after you disabled all of the add ons.

Pay attention here because as you go through the process of re-enabling each add on, you need to notice if there is one that slows your system down. If so, it could be part of your problem and you’ll need to delete it permanently and find another program to do the job it previously did. Good luck. If you have any questions my email is russmediagroup@gmail.com. Feel free to contact me.

If you are an affiliate marketer you need to pay close attention to this article. We all hear about Adware and what it can do to our computer systems. But usually all we hear is that it makes unwanted ads appear while we are surfing the Internet. Wake up affiliate marketers. For us it does much worse. For affiliate marketers Adware can and often does overwrite tracking cookies. In case you don’t know, tracking cookies are what tells the retailer it was you who referred the customer. Without them, you don’t get paid! Would you like me to repeat that? Without tracking cookies, affiliate marketers DON’T GET PAID! If you suddenly notice your commissions aren’t what they usually are, it could be Adware stealing your money.

It’s kind of a Catch 22 sort of thing. Merchants want to sell their products and they know they need to advertise in order to sell them. Adware is an option they have to advertise these products. With adware, program code slips onto your hard drive riding on the backs of MP3s, videos, PDFs and software. Some adware is even written into software pro- grams in an agreement between the merchant and the software manufacturer. Then the merchant ads begin to appear, against your wishes,  while you are using your computer. The merchant hopes this is enough to get you to buy their product.

Sometimes they are so sneaky about it, they know you will inadvertently click the “Buy Me” link when you think you are just getting rid of an unwanted pop up.  You don’t even realize what you have done unless you check your credit card bills every month and notice the charge. It’s not that they are being malicious. They do want you to become an affiliate and promote their products. Most are not even aware that  they are causing you to lose commissions.

Fortunately, the affiliate marketing industry as a whole has started doing something about this problem. Through discussions in Internet Forums, affiliate marketers have begun organizing their efforts. The general consensus has been that the best way to deal with this problem is to discourage merchants from using adware to advertise their products  Merchants either indifferent to or supportive of adware are being exposed by affiliates, thus damaging those merchants' reputations and tarnishing their general affiliate marketing efforts. They are being “blacklisted” for the protection of honest affiliate marketers. Affiliates that were aware of this problem have been  fighting back by terminating the affiliate relationship with these merchants and switching to another merchant that doesn’t use adware to promote their products. The results of affiliates standing up for their rights.

In December of 2002, the Publisher Code of Conduct was put in place as an attempt at self regulation by the affiliate marketing industry. The code is not a law, but a best practices guideline that the participating networks have committed themselves to. It basically forbids merchants from doing anything, like using adware, that interferes with an affiliate marketer’s attempt to make money using affiliate marketing. This was an important step in protecting the rights of affiliate marketers. To read about the Publisher’s Code of conduct and it’s updates copy the address below and paste in your browser.  http://www.cumbrowski.com/CodeOfConduct.asp#orgcoc