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Speeding Up Firefox

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kristof007

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So I was looking around at the AfterDawn forums and found some nifty tricks to speed up firefox. They work for me. I hope you can use them too.

1.Type about:config into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set network.http.pipelining to true

Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true

Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0 (zero). This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!


You have to close your browser after you make the changes. When you start it back up they will be in effect.
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Some more stuff I found .. this is even more comprehensive .. thanks to yourdeardaniel

More on Firefox Tweaking!
 
Works great, pages do load faster (i was wondering why it just sat there w/ the little image place holders for so long if ie just filled em in!!!) thanks.

I also wonder why this wasent enabled from the start, or durring installation.
 
Originally posted by: xtknight
Cool, I like it. Thanks. Now why wasn't the 0ms. page layout delay enabled in the first place? 😕
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My guess is that the things you enable with those commands are bandwith hungry since the warning that this is for broadband users. On the link I got from another thread here it says what you can do with fast computer / slow connection, slow/slow, fast/fast, slow/fast combinations. I guess each config is specific to the internet's capabilities and the computer's power.
 
Using the pipelining tweak is perfectly safe and is recommended as it increases speed for both you and the web server. The only thing is that it may cause problems with older web servers which do not understand pipelining properly.

The connection tweaks on the other hand should be avioded at all costs as they violate the HTTP protocol, which recommends a limit of 2 connections per server.
 
Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
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It's like a mini-DoS! Although, it used to limit these to 8 or something. :shrug;

How many times is this same doc going to get posted here?
 
Originally posted by: kristof007
Originally posted by: xtknight
Cool, I like it. Thanks. Now why wasn't the 0ms. page layout delay enabled in the first place? 😕
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My guess is that the things you enable with those commands are bandwith hungry since the warning that this is for broadband users. On the link I got from another thread here it says what you can do with fast computer / slow connection, slow/slow, fast/fast, slow/fast combinations. I guess each config is specific to the internet's capabilities and the computer's power.
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Not the page layout delay.
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
Click to expand...

It's like a mini-DoS! Although, it used to limit these to 8 or something. :shrug;

How many times is this same doc going to get posted here?
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haha no kidding. I thought al this was common knownledge with FF by now?
 
worked for me, but now every website loads...and then its all good, then it pops up with "this document contains no data"

or maybe that was just one site... yeah it was just that one site. nvm
 
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