Attention FireFox Users With Broadband, Make FireFox 10x Faster!

[FragTek]

Hey guys I have a nifty little tutorial here for all of you guys that use FireFox and are on broadband connections. This little set of tricks really does speed up FireFox for a large noticable difference, It's darn near made the internet a more enjoyable place to surf!

Follow these simple steps to make FireFox faster for you!

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit enter. 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.

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

Set "network.dns.disableIPv6 - 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 receives.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!

:cheers:

[Will Wood]

Old newsies ;) ;)
Had this done for a while, I don't honestly notice a difference, but hey whatever. If it doesn't hurt why not.

[FragTek]

Meh I didn't see it posted so I thought I'd share the wealth amongst the AO community.

[personman]

Yeah gunga posted this a little while ago.
I dont really notice a difference either. BTW it works on netscape too

[FragTek]

Yeah gunga posted this a little while ago.
I dont really notice a difference either. BTW it works on netscape too

/me axes Netscape ;)

[personman]

/me axes Netscape ;)
Netscape = Firefox :rolleyes:

[FragTek]

Netscape = Firefox :rolleyes:

Netscape = teh gay!

[personman]

Netscape = teh gay!
If Netscape = FireFox and Netscape = teh gay! then FireFox = teh gay! http://www.automags.org/forums/images/icons/icon14.gif

[FragTek]

If Netscape = FireFox and Netscape = teh gay! then FireFox = teh gay! http://www.automags.org/forums/images/icons/icon14.gif

Last time I had Netscape it had bundled AOL crap all over it = teh gay!

[personman]

I dont have any bundled aol crap :)

Well it has instant messanger I guess but its not like you have to use it..

[FragTek]

That counts right? lol

FireFox = teh simple Netscape = teh pimp!

[teufelhunden]

I wouldn't put pipelining up to 30. Many servers will reject connections from that IP address in the future if they get 30 requests at once from it.

[toolfan62]

whoa thanks dude, it really sped mine up alot :p

[fcpchop]

wow it is faster, thanks bro :clap:

[nippinout]

Netscape = Firefox :rolleyes:

Firefox =/= Netscape Navigator.

Although many of the Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox team are former Netscape employees, and receives sponsorship from Netscape, does not make them the same thing.

Netscape ceased development of their own browser, but has internally started back up browser development using the Gecko rendering engine. IBM is a huge contributor to Linux, but that does not mean Linux = IBM.

[TraXeR]

When I did this, I tried it out. I closed my window first, then opened a new window. When that happened, it prompted me for a new user name/profile name/account name.. I'm not actually sure what it was, I didn't think much of it. So when I made a new one, I used it, but now all my favorites, links, and bookmarks are gone as well as all my history.

How do I get it all back?

[FragTek]

That happened to me randomly one day too, and I just had to go back and re-add all of my favorites and such. It sucked mad wang but I couldn't get it to default back to my original profile, maybe someone here knows how to do it. Sorry!

[TraXeR]

Well crap.. I had over 300 bookmarks. Oh well, I still have them in IE, now for the slow copy and paste process.