How to make Firefox rock!
p2pnet.net News:- Are you a Firefox user who wants to see his/her favourite browser rocketing instead of merely surfing?
Say no more.
“Here’s something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up,” posts KoRn on Free Republic.
Read on >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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!
(The tip comes from Bill Evans who says it really does work : )
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March 15th, 2005 at 6:51 pm
“Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.”
Best to set this to 8. Anything above 8 won’t do much.
This is also a disclaimer for enabling HTTP pipelining. See the following site:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/007164.html
Andy
From Blogs for Firefox
http://blogsforfirefox.blogspot.com/
March 15th, 2005 at 10:54 pm
cool, works on mozilla as well
March 16th, 2005 at 2:23 am
Great–now every idiot on slashdot will really knock-out sites longer.
Can you imagine if IE did this in order to make their browser seem “faster”?
FireFox surely set the default to 1 for a responsible reason.
Sounds like a good way to get FireFox requests ignored, the way p2p programs that abused auto-requeries got banned.
Will this atificially increase the FireFox usage numbers?
March 16th, 2005 at 5:24 am
up!
March 16th, 2005 at 9:20 am
that doing this can ‘break’ some flash site??
or maybe it was some other config settings
March 16th, 2005 at 5:38 pm
There’s also an easier way to do this. Check out this extension:
– https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=327&vid=989
Name: “Tweak Network Settings”
This does work… I’ve been using it for some time. I agree that you shouldn’t set it higher then 8 however. (30 is overkill.) It speeds things up nicely. I also run a few websites and it does NOT falsely raise the FireFox numbers. (That’s just ignorance on how web stats are recorded.) It also doesn’t seem to add much of a load (if any) to the server.
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Peace. ~G