Unique Forum Reader - Web Forum Reader 1.01

• Platform - Win 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / XP / Vista
• Size - 2MB
• Cost - Free
• Website - http://www.chemtable.com

High Speed Browsing - Apple Safari 3.0.3

"Safari 3.0.3 Beta" is the latest browser from Apple Inc. The speed of displaying web pages are twice as fast as IE or Firefox. In this latest beta version, it has included the security update and to improve the stability.

• Platform - Windows / Mac
• Size - 8MB
• Cost - Free
• Website - http://www.apple.com/safari/download/

Faster, more secure and fully customizable - Firefox 2.0.0.8

The award-winning Web browser "Firefox 2.0.08" is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better.

• Enjoy a Better Web Experience
  Firefox 2 delivers helpful new features to make your online experience more productive.
  
• Stay Secure on the WebFirefox continues to lead the way in online security, and now includes active protection from online scams to keep you safer.
  
• Personalize Your BrowserChoose from over a thousand useful add-ons that enhance Firefox. It’s easy to personalize Firefox to make it your own.
  
  

* Please also note that Mozilla has also released Firefox 3.0 Alpha and we will provide updated information once a formal release is announced.


Platform - Windows, Mac, Linux
Size - 5.7MB (for Windows)
Cost - Free
Website - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Three Times Faster Download - BitComet Ultra Accelerator

"BitComet Ultra Accelerator" is an effective plug-in for BitComet P2P. The program includes most modern technology that is used to increase speed of BitComet downloads. Also the number of your download sources will be improved - you can have more seeds available than normally revealed by your BitComet. Interface is beautiful and easy to use.

Features includes:

• Finished and wrong files are cleaned automatically;
• Finds more sources at user-specified intervals;
• Interface is easy to use and good-looking;
• Interface is easy operable by a system tray icon;
• Automatically resumes paused downloads;
• Configuration from last run is saved and auto loads on start-up;
• Clean and free, without any adware or spyware.

Platform - Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Size - 1.34MB
Cost - Free
Website to Download - http://www.trafficspeeders.com/

Accelerate Web Browsing - Google Web Accelerator

 

"Google Web Accelerator" is an application that uses the power of Google's global computer network to make web pages load faster. Google Web Accelerator is easy to use; all you have to do is download and install it, and from then on many web pages will automatically load faster than before.

Google Web Accelerator uses various strategies to make your web pages load faster, including:

• 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.

Platform - Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP 3+ with Internet Explorer or Firefox
Size - 1.65MB
Cost - Free
Website to Download - http://webaccelerator.google.com/index.html


* There is a small display on the menu bar of your browser where it will display the total time saved. For me, I have been using Firefox today for over 3 hours and the total time saved was 6.2 minutes. Not bad.