FIREFOX Speed Tweak

[v930]

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 recieves.

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


Hope this helps alot of people. Its very simple and pages do load faster. Try it out

 

[Fallen Angel]

Add these to the config as well :

user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 128);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 24);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.firstrequest", true);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.maxtextrun : 8191)
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("plugin.expose_full_path", true);
user_pref("ui.submenuDelay", 0);
user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);

 

[v930]

what exactly will those configuration settings do ?

 

[Fallen Angel]

They help Firefox open more connections to the sites, and greatly reduces loading times. It's the same priniciple as changing IE's max connections setting from 2 to 10.
These are quite common by now, you can find them on most any Firefox tweaking sites.

 

[3rdID]

Do you really need to speed it up it was already pretty damn fast. I mean the pages would load in less than a sec., seems like I wouldnt even be able to notice if it was any faster.

Does it help load hi res pics?

 

[v930]

Yes it does. Not much buch it helps. I have noticed pageloads load up faster. Ive tested it with google. I searched for something with and with out the mods and looked at the time results. They were about 1 sec dif. Pictures load up a lil faster as well though. Its not realy a must. But it wouldnt hurt.

 

[sjpritch25]

Hey Fallen Angel
What is this supposed to be
user_pref("content.maxtextrun : 8191)
a integer, or string

 

[Fallen Angel]

String value.

 

[Static_11]

does this ONLY work with broadband?? no dialup

 

[v930]

it makes more of a difference with broadband