Firefox Hack

[Shakie]

This hack is used to speed up your firefox browser when using broadband.

Very simple:

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.

 

[Shumway]

Shakie your too slow this has already been posted a couple time's.

 

[Shakie]

Shakie your too slow this has already been posted a couple time's.

true... but not here... at least when I did a search I couldn't find it.

so

 

[jinexile]

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

Doesn't do anything or is capped slightly above 8

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.

Its actually faster for broadband users to set this at between 100-250

 

[willz0rz]

Thanks my firefox runs faster now!

 

[extendcradle]

Nice information shacky....Even if this information exists somewhere,I still have no idea that this is possible so this is a nice post.

 

[Lonewolf5460]

yah it is nice info already done it to firefox.can some one sticky this in the browser section.

 

[bart]

No bad even it already is some were else

Thanks

 

[TMan7000]

Thanks, It works great for me

 

[Tyler1989]

I'm trying it now but I'll be ticked if this screws anything up when I update down the road.

Edit: One part of your tutorial is flawed I'll go make a better one elseware . I'll give you a hint SP2 restricts the amount of connections a program can have you need to do a system hack then the firefox hack...

Edit2: hey everyone I'm so sorry. I intended to fix the flaw when I got back from vacation but I never did but late is better than never. XP SP2 limates the number of downloads/steams/connections an app can have. So nothing will go above 10 I think. You need to hack the registry to allow 50 connections at one time. I'll ask Eric to post the automatic registry hack or I can upload mine if I can find it.