How-To
Speed up WordPress with Gears for Firefox
Description
If you use the Firefox browser, you might want to install the Gears add on from Google to speed up web applications including WordPress. This video goes through the why and how in under 2 minutes.
There are separate videos for Internet Explorer and Safari should you prefer.
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WordPress.com (128), WordPress.org (179), 2.7 (71)
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Date
February 27, 2009
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featured (70), Firefox (2), Gears (3)
March 2, 2009 at 5:47 pm |
how efective to increase speed loading my wordpress ??
actually i d’t get or bit different before and after use Gear apliaction.
thankz for answer.
March 4, 2009 at 1:52 pm |
I hope the speed increase a lot!!!
March 16, 2009 at 10:53 pm |
i hope the speed increase a lot!
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April 5, 2009 at 12:39 am |
Yeh, How come the video stops plying?
Luis
April 6, 2009 at 6:22 am |
Depending on the speed of your internet connection and memory/processing power of your computer, you may experience some “buffering”, where the content of the video is cached to the short-term memory of your computer. In that case, pausing the video temporarily will give it time to catch up.
April 13, 2009 at 6:11 pm |
It would be good to get turbo up and running for the current beta of Chrome.
“Grab yourself a coffee or other hot beverage of your choice.” LOL
April 18, 2009 at 5:21 pm |
Hello
I installed gears for firefox linux, I think I installed the offline tool for
wordpress (my account in wordpress.com) but then what?
Services such as goggle docs or zoho have an offline button, which I
can’t find in wordpress.
Moreover how shall I connect to wordpress when I am offline?
thanks
Uwe Brauer
April 20, 2009 at 5:33 am |
After installing Gears, activate the “Turbo” button found top right of the screen in WordPress if you’re logged in and in the back end. That’s all you need to do. This will speed up general use of WordPress by downloading key files to your computer. However, we don’t at this point offer an “offline” mode as with Zoho/Google docs. I believe this is something the developers would like to add, however.
April 30, 2009 at 10:26 am |
I dont think that a user-side application can speed up a web application. unless there is somthing to do with java scripts and caching.
May 3, 2009 at 11:44 am |
This is exactly how it works: WordPress uses Gears to locally store (cache) files for the blog dashboard.
January 19, 2010 at 1:18 pm |
Michael,
I run several blogs and use Foxfire as my browser of choice, so I was very excited about this add on.
Help me with this. In the video, I see that you downloaded and installed “Google Gears 0.5.4.2″ without problems. When I went to the Google Gears site, I downloaded what I thought was the same file you did, but when I tried to install it I got an error message that said the file was incompatible with the build of browser I am using (Foxfire ver. 3.5.7).
I subsequently was able to install “Google Gears 0.5.33.0″.
Will it perform the same functions as described in your video?”
Reggie
January 22, 2010 at 8:38 pm |
You should be all set.