Here is how you can try out Google Web Light to view webpages without consuming too much data.

Google Web Light is the new tool introduced recently by Google to help loading pages faster in areas with slow connection. It is going to be rolled out in India and Brazil soon. No word on the date for other countries as of yet since most of them have fast connection.

It boast to load pages 4× faster, compress pages by 80% and increase traffic by 50%.

We certainly need this feature to be rolled out for places with slow connection everywhere around the world.

For now, here is how you can access any site with that feature:
1. Enter this address in the address bar
http://icl.googleusercontent.com/?lite_url=http://www.twowiz.com
2. Now, to access any other site, replace 'twowiz.com' in the address above with the site you want to access.

I can see the page load considerably faster. Stay tuned for more updates like this!

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Tutorial: How To Enable Firefox Optional Tracking Protection To Reduce Load Times of Major News Sites By 44%.

Former Mozilla software engineer Monica Chew and Computer Science researcher Georgios Kontaxis has found that news sites does indeed load slower with tracking mode on in your browser. For more you can read news from Venturebeat.

If you turn on Firefox's Optional Tracking Protection you can reduce the load time of major news sites by 44%. 

So, lets get that thing turned on.

Follow these steps:
1. Start Firefox and open about:config in the address bar
2. Search for privacy.trackingprotection.enabled
3. Double-click or right-click the preference to toggle the Value to “true”

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