You were able to speed up the management of your blog by installing Google’s Gears for Firefox. Unfortunately, in 2011 Google discontinued the support of the Gears API.
With Gears most of your blog’s images and CSS files were being stored locally on your computer. This was speeding up mainly your WordPress admin area.
If you wish to optimize your WordPress blog so that it loads faster for all visitors, you can still check our tutorial onhow to optimize WordPress.
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