Make FireFox Faster.

[Tomez]

Make Firefox Faster

December 26, 2004 | Category: Open_Source | derek

After you get past the beginner stage with Firefox, try this "power-user" trick to make it download pages faster by allowing multiple connections so it can download more than one file at a time. It's only useful for broadband users, so if you're still on dial-up you can just skip this one for now.

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.

[preso]

which one is make firefox faster by using this method or firetune?

[Lite]

I posted this in another thread, but its the thing for this:

I'll breakdown what they do (and why they are the default options and the problems they cause)

"network.http.pipelining" to "true"

"network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Both of these are disabled by default as they are EXPERIMENTAL and cause stability problems.

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

Will dramitically increase memory/ CPU usage.

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.

This "tweak" is really pointless. It makes it SEEM that firefox renders a page quickly, but it actually doesnt. If you use a stopwatch to see how long page takes to render with this set to zero vs default, i think you will find the default one is quicker.... Why you ask? Simple firefox will be trying to render stuff that isn't actually downloaded. Not only increasing CPU/ Memory usage, but INCREASING the overall rendering time.

[Guest oxygenuk]

Make Firefox Faster

December 26, 2004 | Category: Open_Source | derek

After you get past the beginner stage with Firefox, try this "power-user" trick to make it download pages faster by allowing multiple connections so it can download more than one file at a time. It's only useful for broadband users, so if you're still on dial-up you can just skip this one for now.

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.

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and the source..? :)

[vin3e]

FireTune... google it. Relatively easy to use.

[Guest airmale]

Fasterfox is now an extension for Firefox and works well.

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1269