Comments on: How to make Firefox rock!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:38:56 +0000

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

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:20:27 +0000

that doing this can ‘break’ some flash site??

or maybe it was some other config settings

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:24:31 +0000

up!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:23:51 +0000

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?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 03:54:42 +0000

cool, works on mozilla as well

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:51:37 +0000

“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
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