Speed up Firefox

Lozzy_Ozzy

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I don't know if you guys already know this, but a friend directed me to this site.

I did what it says and it REALLY speeds it up :D.

http://forevergeek.com/open_source/make_firefox_faster.php

Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up: 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". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!
 
I didn't notice a differance.
 
Zelig said:
It's not that great... there was a good blog by one of the Firefox devs a while back explaining why they didn't use these options as default.
Yes. One of the reasons they don't use it as the default setting is that it tends to be very annoying to website administrators, as it causes you to use up more of their bandwidth making a bunch of requests at once.
 
Deinstall Firefox and use Internet Exploder? :D

I used to be a bog proponent of Firefox and Opera, but IE, along with Maxthon, is much faster now and more stable than the other two. I said it, yes I did!
 
So its actually doing sites bad?

Hmmm, I might put it back then...
 
I used to be a bog proponent of Firefox and Opera, but IE, along with Maxthon, is much faster now and more stable than the other two. I said it, yes I did!

You must be smoking some good stuff....
 
thanks for the info lozzy. this really speaded it up a lot for me. for example loading up the Myspace front page would take me almost a minute on broadband, not it only takes 2-3 seconds.
 
it actually seems to be about as slow as it was, it speeded up for a bit, then slowed backdown.
 
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