Speed up Fire Fox

[Dolby]

I use the Firefox browser alot and I found the following tweak and I have noticed it has increased the speed at which webpages are loaded on my broadband connection. Just wanted to share this with you because i know there are some that use Firefox here.

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How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity)

Posted on 12/12/2004 12:45:50 PM PST by KoRn

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!

[Pixi]

Nice info. Noticable difference on my connection too.

[Drumstix42]

Awesome! Thanx a ton.

[Tarrax Ironwolf]

W00t! Thanks for the tweak! Much better!

[Foosh]

wow, big difference, excellent info.

[insomniac]

you can go crazy with customising the way firefox works, this thread from mozillazine is full of stuff like that.