Make Firefox Faster

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:05 pm Post subject: Make Firefox Faster

To those who run Firefox, give this a try - it works great:

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 any number around 10-50. This
means it will make X requests at once, depending on the number you put in.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New > Integer.
Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0".
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 2-3 times faster now.
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:43 pm Post subject:

Ty for the post pitt. I hope this works. Rolling Eyes

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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:49 am Post subject:

It does - I did it last night. Wink

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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:58 am Post subject:

Interesting enough on one of my computers I had these configs and the other I did not. One change I made to Firefox was the FasterFox plugin. Could these be some of the config changes within FasterFox? Could be, could be.

I feel a lot of the request delay is reduced by these changes, those precious milliseconds of life are not wasted Smile

-Barb
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:08 am Post subject:

CAN'T SEEM TO BRING UP THE CONFIGS ON MY VISTA PC BUT COULD ON MY XP UNIT AND CAN'T REALLY TELL THE DIFFERENCE, WORTH AT RY.
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:58 am Post subject:

maybe it wasnt working cause your caps button was on.
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