Speed up Firefox

[Madferrit]

Got this from another forum, and it seems to work well for me.

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following four entries:

a) network.http.pipelining
b) network.http.proxy.pipelining
c) network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
d) browser.turbo.enabled

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 (by double clicking each of the above four, will change its value,ie true becomes false and vice versa):

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.

Set "browser.turbo.enabled" to "true"


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! :bannana:

 

[grasmere]

see firetune at firetune

does the same and perhaps a bit more - and it works well too

 

[gary350]

I tried the speed up in the first post, could see no difference, will try the firetune.

gary

 

[kingprawn72]

nice one,

been wanting to speed things up

 

[MangoMan]

seems to work for me, thanks. Bill.

 

[rizal2510]

seems a bit faster to me..thanx for the heads up.. :bannana:

 

[grober]

Firetuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuune!

Madferrit and Grasmere thanks for the heads up. Definitely faster

 

[Kinky]

Be careful if you see the Beta 1.5 version - considerably faster - but buggy as anything .... and it overwrites your current version

K

 

[Aswall]

Be careful if you see the Beta 1.5 version - considerably faster - but buggy as anything .... and it overwrites your current version

K

You can go back to 1.0.6 though. I had to as, like you say, 1.5 Beta is considerably faster but is buggier than a bug full of bugs at the university of bugging

 

[Kinky]

Aswall - is that "the university of bugging" in Buggsville?

If so - yeah defo.

And it's a pain having to re-install the previous version.

K