TIP - FireFox Browser Speedup

[Bob Hubbard]

> * Run Firefox? Have broadband? Here's Speed Tips
>
>Here's something for broadband people that will really speed up
>Firefox:
>
>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!
>-----------

 

[OUMoose]

Interesting. Does seem a little zippier.

Thanks for the tip!

 

[Cthulhu]

Some of those should actually work in Mozilla 1.x as well.


Cthulhu

 

[dubljay]

AWESOME TIP! wow I have a very noticeable differnece in load time.
Thanks much Kaith

 

[RRouuselot]

> * Run Firefox? Have broadband? Here's Speed Tips


>
>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.

If you just double click them they change from "false" to "true" automatically.

 

[gakusei]

Install flashblock to stop ads from loading. You can always click on them to load them.


http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

 

[gakusei]

FireTune http://www.totalidea.com/freestuff4.htm

Bumped up the speed by 73%

 

[arnisador]

Hmmm, I'll try it!

 

[Pale Rider]

I really like that... thanks for the update.

 

[arnisador]

Seems to be working faster already! Thanks!

 

[arnisador]

As I navigate this site using FireFox tonight, I get slow page loads and my browser says, in the lower left-hand corner:

Connecting to www.speadfirefox.com...

I know MartialTalk isn't doing this to me...what is FireFox doing? I don't see it on other sites, and only see it here when I go to post a reply to a message and am waiting for the box to appear for me to type in.

 

[Jade Tigress]

I'm trying this and get an error message saying "about.config could not be found. Please check the name and try again"
What should I do?

Arni ~ I get the same thing sometimes with the spreadfirefox.com in the lower left corner... ???

 

[Bob Hubbard]

Looks like the Spreadfirefox fite is down.

I'm trying this and get an error message saying "about.config could not be found. Please check the name and try again"
What should I do?

Don't type "about.config" type "about:config"

 

[arnisador]

What I don't get is why it's going there in the first place...I'm certainly not asking it to do so. Is this built-in to the browser?

 

[Jade Tigress]

Don't type "about.config" type "about:config"

Aha! Thank you Bob. :asian:

 

[Kreth]

What I don't get is why it's going there in the first place...I'm certainly not asking it to do so. Is this built-in to the browser?

It's loading the button at the bottom of the page...

 

[arnisador]

Ah, OK, thanks! Do you know if that can be disabled? It's a real slowdown right now.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

I'm not seeing a speed issue on this end at the moment, except when theres an error in the ad server at the top. I'm working on that issue.

 

[Kreth]

Ah, OK, thanks! Do you know if that can be disabled? It's a real slowdown right now.

You could try AdBlocking spreadfirefox.com. That would skip the download.