a short and a quick guide to tweaks for speeding up Firefox

[majithia23]

just found a link , which posted this ,

a quick and a ready guide to firefox tweaks ....

could be useful ,,especially for beginners and those , lazy enough , like me :P,, ,,,, not wanting to go into any details or forensics of tweaking ....

identify your computer and the network type ,

hit 'about:config' in your browser and after promising firefox to take care :lol: ,,, tweak it ,,,, and see if it works for you ......

(p.s. - i already had done the tweaks before ;) )

Common to all configurations

These are the settings that seem to be common to all configuration files regardless of connection speed or computer speed with a couple of additions - plugin paths can be found with about:plugins and the bookmark menu delay is turned off.

user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);

user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);

user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);

user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);

user_pref("plugin.expose_full_path", true);

user_pref("ui.submenuDelay", 0);

Fast Computer Fast Connection

user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);

user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);

user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);

user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);

user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);

user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);

user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);

user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);

user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);

user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8);

user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);

A couple settings of note - Firefox is allocated 4096 KB of memory by default and in this configuration we give it roughly 65MB as denoted by the last line. This can be changed according to what is used.

Fast Computer, Slower Connection

This configuration is more suited to people without ultra fast connections. We are not talking about dial up connections but slower DSL / Cable connections.

user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);

user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);

user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);

user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);

user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);

user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);

user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);

user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8);

user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);

user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);

Fast Computer, Slow Connection

user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);

user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);

user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 3000000);

user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 8191);

user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);

user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);

user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);

user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 32);

user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 8);

user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 8);

user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 4);

user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);

user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);

Slow Computer, Fast Connection

user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 3000000);

user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);

user_pref("content.notify.interval", 1000000);

user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);

user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 1000000);

user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 4095);

user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 1000);

user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);

user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);

user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);

user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8);

user_pref("dom.disable_window_status_change", true);

One of the changes made for this particular configuration is the final line where the status bar is disabled for changing web pages to save processor time.

Slow Computer, Slow Connection

We have entered the doldrums of the dial-up user

user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);

user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);

user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);

user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);

user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 750);

user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 32);

user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 8);

user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 8);

user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 4);

user_pref("dom.disable_window_status_change", true);

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