how to make firefox run faster

[MechaPiano]

http://forevergeek.com/open_source/m...fox_faster.php

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!

[atRax]

Wow .. running FASTER here for True !

[gesteves]

I can't tell the difference

[Subway]

This was posted in the big Firefox tips and tricks thread, but the initialpaint.delay is new. Thx for sharing.

Fredi

[1stbite]

nice tip, thanks

back in the good books with the otherhalf, now i made her FF faster...

[flashpenguin]

way faster here.. thanks

[EVPohovich]

Shaweetness......now if I can only keep the dang virii away...

[Ultima Designs]

That's unreal.

[N_R_D]

Wow, man !

Unreal !

Much faster!



Now if there was a way to make BIG flash files run faster, and not slow down.

[big_k]

"The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded"


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[big_k]

nevermind, had to take out the space after "about"

[yasunobu13]

seems to work well with mozilla also

[gerbick]

works well, but sites like Adobe.com seem to still load in slow ass sections to me though.

[FlashKid105]

Thanks for sharing this tip, man. I did exactly as you said and I can see a big difference in page loading times now.

This is SA-WEEEET!

[the sherrif]

I can see a bit of a difference. k10k.net still loads pretty slow.

[gerbick]

Originally posted by the sherrif
I can see a bit of a difference. k10k.net still loads pretty slow.

part of me blames the fact K10K.net is ASP.NET based for the initial slowness.

[squidlips]

if only there were more tweaks like this! working a charm here.. everything seems much more snappy and responsive.

[Orkar]

awful nice if somewhat known tweak ....

as to the maxrequests:

Originally posted by MechaPiano (and many others in many places)Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30

this could be set lower to 16 or something
some knowledgeable people argue it won't even work above 8 requests.

another old tweak setting you could change is

browser.turbo.enabled change the value to true

I'm not sure if this value is still supported in the application but it is still in the config list

[TheOneNeo1000]

that rocks

[tiber123]

Thanks a ton,that worked!