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Misc: Speed up Mozilla Firefox about 3-30x Faster

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:19 pm
by stratoskater
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 brodband connection you'll load pages 2-30 times faster now.

For more tutorials like this go to http://programmersplace.tk

Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 8:13 am
by Waverunner
HOLY CRAP! I LOVE YOU! lol

Whoa, I had my doubts, but this actually works lmfao!

Ill let you guys know if my computer explodes or anything lol

Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 8:23 am
by Katarn
i did it, i reallly don't notice a difference, i hate dsl, i used to have cable :cry:

Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 8:46 am
by Waverunner
Katarn wrote:i did it, i reallly don't notice a difference, i hate dsl, i used to have cable :cry:
Why did you get rid of it? Jesus I love you! It takes no time to load a page now!!!!!

Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 8:58 am
by Katarn
because the grade of cable i had (faster than t3) was $100 or so a month.

Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:32 am
by RaVNzCRoFT
I can't tell if Firefox is faster, my connection is already faster than t3 also lol.

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:33 am
by Ghetto Green
Wow! Please make this a stickie. :shock:

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:18 am
by kaptainkommie
Great find. Tested and works with the Linux distribution of Firefox in addition to the Windows distro.

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:03 am
by stratoskater
wow! my very own two stickies :roll: :lol: :D
kaptainkommie wrote:Great find. Tested and works with the Linux distribution of Firefox in addition to the Windows distro.
WTF, i did not find this, i figured this out myself.

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:30 pm
by jks
I have charter and it runs supafast... Im trying it now... do I have to quit firefox to make it work? I havent really noticed a difference yet.

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:43 am
by stratoskater
not sure, try restarting firefox

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:39 pm
by Sentinel
This actually slowed the hell out of mine. Ironic mb?

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:15 pm
by Waverunner
Sentinel wrote:This actually slowed the hell out of mine. Ironic mb?
Well, after thinking about it, I changed the pipelining of 30 to about 400. This actually slowed down my computer, because I think it had to send out more requests to the site. Try lower numbers mb.

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:19 pm
by Phenomena
meh ive known this for awhile :P

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:05 pm
by Waverunner
If you know something, tell us! lol

Any other secret information you have?

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:13 pm
by stratoskater
keep the pipelining at 30

Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:51 am
by stratoskater
Waverunner wrote:If you know something, tell us! lol

Any other secret information you have?
are you talking about me?

Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 1:13 pm
by AbeFroman
it didnt work...

Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 2:39 pm
by Waverunner
stratoskater wrote:
Waverunner wrote:If you know something, tell us! lol

Any other secret information you have?
are you talking about me?
no, phenomena

Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 11:53 am
by Phenomena
well i have plenty of secret plugins i have never mentioned before (excpet on the zmt site)