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Tweeking Fire Fox
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 4:42 pm
by bubba
Saw a post on an RC site I go to that guys were hacking fire fox to adjust the settings for pipelining. Has anyone done this? does it truely make a differance.
what they was posting to do.
Speed up Mozilla Firefox about 3-30x Faster!!!
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 2-30 times faster now.
links I found on this
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 15&start=0
http://www.tweakfactor.com/articles/twe ... eak/4.html
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 4:46 pm
by dicecca112
or you can just install the extension fasterfox, which implements all of these
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 4:52 pm
by bubba
yah saw some links to that as well, but there are issues with severs blocking access with fasterfox due to it prefetching sites and over loading them. I now the prefeatching is bad but didn't know about the pipelining.
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:35 pm
by DMB2000uk
I heard this being discussed somewhere, but i think the general consensus was to not enable it for some reason, can't remember what though now...
Dan
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 5:22 pm
by Topher
I've done this in the past back with version 1.x. Don't know how relevant these settings are with version 2.x.
Regardless, I did notice a considerable speed increase with page loads after making the changes.
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:28 pm
by camaroguy1998
I did it last night and noticed a quicker response time. The page would start loading sooner, no delay!
As far as a page load time from start to finish I didnt see much there but I am on a 3mb connection, so I didnt expect too much!
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:50 am
by stev
If you have dial-up don't go too crasy with this. It could actually make things worse for speed. Sure a 3x boost would be great, howver a 30x boost could put the speed in reverse.
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:57 am
by chotachatri12
yes i have seen these tweaks and have tried them. lets put it this way if u have a fast connection then most likely it will work otherwise u may luck out, although u can also install fasterfox as stated by dicecca112 that will work as well and yess i have tried that great performance
hope that helps
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:26 am
by Sporg
On one of my other PCs I have Firefox with Fasterfox installed. I have run into webpages that won't let me view due to those changes. I can't remember exactly what the message was, but it specifically pointed at those changes. As far as a performance increase, I really didn't notice one, but I didn't truly test it either.
JUST TRIED CHANGE
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:06 pm
by DeusEx
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:17 pm
by dgood
i did what you said at home but didn't notice too much of a difference but I might try increasing it a bit more i have cable. if only IE 7 could load that quickly since you have to use it for windows live mails auto login which blows and microsoft update.
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:39 pm
by dicecca112
IE tab, its an addon, I don't use IE7 for anything
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:29 am
by Gamble
thanks for the info! noticeably quicker now!
