Speed Up Your Browser With Google Web Accelerator

If you have broadband, you can speed up your browser even faster by using Google's free Web Accelerator. This tool uses strategies that load Web pages faster by doing the following:

• Sending your page requests through Google machines dedicated to handling Google Web Accelerator traffic.
• Storing copies of frequently looked at pages to make them quickly accessible.
• Downloading only the updates if a web page has changed slightly since you last viewed it.
• Prefetching certain pages onto your computer in advance.
• Managing your Internet connection to reduce delays.
• Compressing data before sending it to your computer.

Since it's designed for broadband connections, it probably won't help a dial-up connection. It requires Windows XP or 2000 SP-3 operating systems and Internet Explorer 5.5+ or Firefox 1.0+ browsers. If you're using another browser, you need to change the proxy settings to use Google's Web accelerator.