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How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity)

Posted on 12/12/2004 12:45:50 PM PST by KoRn

Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

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 MUCH faster now!


TOPICS: Technical; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: firefox; mozilla; pc
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To: Mike Fieschko
Got a cite for the particular RFC it violates?

RFC 2068 I believe.

321 posted on 01/03/2005 10:38:16 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: Mike Fieschko

More intelligent discussion here at forevergeek.com:

http://forevergeek.com/open_source/make_firefox_faster.php


322 posted on 01/03/2005 10:42:35 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: FreedomCalls

Thanks. Correctly described as 'more intelligent'.


323 posted on 01/03/2005 10:50:13 PM PST by Mike Fieschko ("[A] doctrine which has ceased to be affirmed is doomed, like a disused organ, to atrophy.")
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To: KoRn

I just followed your instructions and wow, I cannot believe the difference. I had even uninstalled Firefox, as it was so slow! This is good. Thanks!


324 posted on 01/03/2005 11:01:46 PM PST by HoHoeHeaux
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To: HoHoeHeaux

Your quite welcome!


325 posted on 01/04/2005 8:31:07 PM PST by KoRn
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To: Mike Fieschko
Wow, would be nice I love slashdot. As long as everyone remembers this isn't my original creation, just info gathered from a couple of emails, and confirmed on the Firefox help page. After verifying, I decided to post the info as a vanity because it worked so well for me.

I'm not looking for any fame for something I didn't discover on my own, I was just posting some good tips to help the Firefox faithful on FR. ;-)
326 posted on 01/04/2005 8:34:31 PM PST by KoRn
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To: FreedomCalls
And it breaks Flash apps:

Not here (yet?). Maybe some pages, but none I've visited since making the changes.
327 posted on 01/04/2005 8:41:50 PM PST by Mike Fieschko (Stop or I shall be forced to say stop again.)
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To: Mike Fieschko
The only site I can't use with FF is this banking page that requires IE. hmmmmm Banking with IE? I think not!
328 posted on 01/04/2005 8:48:11 PM PST by KoRn
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To: All

BTTT for those who haven't seen it.


329 posted on 01/09/2005 4:11:57 PM PST by KoRn
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To: Mike Fieschko

Bump for those who haven't seen it!


330 posted on 01/22/2005 2:27:46 PM PST by KoRn
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To: KoRn

Wow...this thread had received some serious play in the blogosphere. Good job!


331 posted on 01/25/2005 8:08:34 AM PST by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: July 4th

So I've heard. I don't get around the blogosphere much, so I haven't seen it.


332 posted on 01/25/2005 8:30:09 AM PST by KoRn
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To: ShadowAce; rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; ...

Does anyone know why I have to get to FR from a back door? I just got Firefox and it doesn't regonize freerepublic.com.


333 posted on 01/28/2005 4:53:27 AM PST by Bellflower (A new day is Coming!)
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To: Bellflower

That's interesting. I guess I'll ask the obvious--are you sure you're not making a typo? I use FF on several machines, all with different OSes, and not one of them as had issues with FR.


334 posted on 01/28/2005 5:28:37 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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Bumperzz


335 posted on 02/10/2005 7:28:35 PM PST by KoRn
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To: KoRn

If just done it to my MAC OSX version of Firefox and it works well... now can you help me find a fix for the horrible problem Firefox has is MAC OS X 3.2.8 which manifests itself as an inability to redisplay a page properly when, after scolling down one scorlls back up? (The page content dissapears like a roller blind as one scrolls up and the only way to get the page to display again is to reload the page)


336 posted on 02/20/2005 12:27:40 PM PST by mediamentor (Liked Firefox beofe updating to MAC OSX 3.2.8)
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To: mediamentor

Hmm.. That's a good one. I'll look into it. I'm not on a Mac, so I don't know if there's any difference between the Firefox installations between differing OS's. If I find out anything I'll post back to ya. ;^)


337 posted on 02/20/2005 3:41:48 PM PST by KoRn
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To: KoRn

BTTTTTTTTTTTTT


338 posted on 02/20/2005 3:45:33 PM PST by Lx (Tuesday is Soylent green day!)
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To: KoRn

I BELIEVE THESE SETTINGS ACTUALLY SLOWED DOWN MY BROWSER.

I'm not sure.

I did every single thing the above directions explained to do, and now my browser moves very slowly and pictures take forever to load! I am on a cable connection.. well, my roommate is on a cable connection and I connect through her computer via wireless router, etc. Pictures (once upon a time) didn't take this long to load before! What should I do?

-kt


339 posted on 02/21/2005 5:53:01 PM PST by katatoe (http://www.gethappy.com/watchmore.html)
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To: Marine Inspector

bttt.


340 posted on 02/21/2005 5:55:08 PM PST by Marine Inspector (Customs & Border Protection Officer)
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