Firefox speed up hacks

Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 8:20 pm

From http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000803024910/

Original article wrote:

orevergeek.com has a useful guide on speeding up firefox for broadband users. basically after getting to the hidden config settings you set the browser to request more data that it usually does.

1.Type â€œabout:configâ€? 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 â€œnetwork.http.pipeliningâ€? to â€œtrueâ€?

Set â€œnetwork.http.proxy.pipeliningâ€? to â€œtrueâ€?

Set â€œnetwork.http.pipelining.maxrequestsâ€? 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 â€œnglayout.initialpaint.delayâ€? and set its value to â€œ0â€?. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

If youâ€™re using a broadband connection youâ€™ll load pages MUCH faster now!

New article with some more options: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/8007.htm

Original article wrote:

To get started, type "about:config" in your FireFox address bar. The settings you're looking for are:

2.) network.http.pipelining.firstrequest => true
<snip> (rest of the tweaks already in first article)

Talks about tweaking parameters to enable http pipelining, and optimizing for broadband. Enjoy! Wink

If you are still using IE, Firefox is a good free alternative.

Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 1:39 am

Sweeet, thx a lot man!
it works...!

Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:12 am

lrd_reaper wrote:

Sweeet, thx a lot man!
it works...!

I grabed these off nforcehq and can tell you that these really work a treat for 56k'ers

Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:50 pm

np. Certainly much more responsive than IE with these tweaking.

ps. I use Opera, same parameters are in the preferences and page responsiveness is about the same.

Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 4:41 pm

It is great, but I need to point out that some servers will reject you until you set that limit not to 30 but under 5. Isohunt goes nuts for anything over 10 after you have viewed about 4-5 pages from her.

Good find though!