Speed up Firefox

[Matyuv]

From http://www.freerepulic.com:

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!

[th3()ne]

You spelt Freerepublic wrong, other than that, excellent, but you've already shown me.

Remember guys, Broadband only!

[Matyuv]

i didn't misspel it, i just copied post from other forum. lol

[Hunchman801]

I'll have a look at this. It looks like it would work.

[Matyuv]

It worked for Jona also

[Hunchman801]

It loads slightly faster now...

[th3()ne]

Change the number to 300, the pages load instantly!

[Hunchman801]

You overuse Mozilla

[th3()ne]

No, I'm making the most of it, and it's awsome! Seriously, I was meant to do 300, but I did 3000, no wonder the sites I visit are loading extremely fast!

[Xeiqu]

LOL.

Why isn't this default? There must be some downside...

0____0

[th3()ne]

The network.http.pipelining.maxrequests can easily be changed to whatever you want, but the extra bit that you add increases the performance.

Also, theses are just configurations, nothing special.

[Hunchman801]

Too many requests might make the browser crash.

[th3()ne]

Nope! I'm doing a lot and I've had no problems for 3 days.

[Hunchman801]

That renders it unstable

[th3()ne]

You and your exuses, just admit your wrong...

[Hunchman801]

Never! Why was it set to 3 then? Xeiqu must be right...

[Jona]

There are more things in the world of computers that make no sense. That it was set to 4 default doesn't mean putting it higher is bad.

[Hunchman801]

I'm not that sure Anyways, if it doesn't bring any problem, everything's fine ^^

[th3()ne]

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[Xeiqu]

As this is a browser topic, I feel that I need to make the following announcement in here:

DO NOT DOWNLOAD NETSCAPE 8!

It's completely terrible. Bad theme styles, keeps freezing, keeps crashing, keeps making irritating noises, won't allow most internet pages to open in new windows because it thinks they're pop-ups...

And a whole host of other things. Netscape 7 is way better.