Make Firefox 4x Faster. - Get DSL Speeds With Dial-up on firefox.
realthor
Apr 8 2006, 05:52 AM
regular users shouldn't really care if they speed up their browsing cause it's pretty safe but website and server admins have real trouble with these NOSed browsers as they open and often preload tons of stuff that won't even be viewed and eat bandwitch so there've appeared solutions to ban or not allow you to browse certain sites. I don't know very well the admin part but i guess i've read there's even an apache module to deal with this problem.
I used to use fasterfox untill i've read about this thing. Now i turned off the turbocharged option and i use it without risking to get banned temporarly or permanently and of course i don't want my sites to get their bandwitch sucked for no advantage(most of preloaded pages won't even be seen as they are preloaded just in case), so i'm the ones to prevent this...
Anyway...how would u feel if your sites' bandwitch would be consumed by only a few folks that have prefetch enabled and other tricky options? You'd be forced to buy extra bandwitch for no real gain.
my browser doesn't have a browser.turbo (therefore no browser.turbo.enabled), so I'm unable to change that one. Any ideas about why, or what to do? o_O
Actually... I tried adding the string 'browser.turbo.enabled' with value 'true' -- will this produce the same outcome, you think?
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" from False
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" from False
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 500 requests at once. From 4
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.
OR download the FasterFox extension, it does all the above for you and there are more features.
That's it. If you're using dial-up, don't bother to follow whatever is above
U will Never Know Till U have Tried.
Notice from jlhaslip:
This same information is also available in the tutorial Section here at the Trap. Use the Search feature before randomly copying information from other sites. Maybe research and tell us if the technique also works in the new Firefox 2.0??? Copied material quoted to reduce credits for this posting. Consider this a verbal warning. As soon as I find the right Tutorial, I will be merging this topic into it.
This is really awesome, i found out about this a LONG LONG time ago like right when Firefox came out, the crazy thing is it actually works, there are tons of other things you can do but its a little hard to explain.
I have found some settings for a faster connection net.
Find network.http.max-connections This setting determines how many simultaneous HTTP connections can be made. Default is 24, change it to 48.
Find network.http.max-connections-per-server This setting determines how many simultaneous connections can be made to a single server. Default is 8, change it to 16. But setting it too high will create problems and your connections could be refused.
Find network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy This setting is useful if you use a proxy server. Which determines how many connections to keep alive at any time. Default is 4 set it to 8.
Find network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server If you dont use a proxy server then try this. Default is 2 change it to 4 or 8.
Those last can be used on a broadband connection (xDSL or Cable) as well. The settings are also in a default windows configuration and can be used with Internet Explorer as well.
thats great, I have been using Firefox for a long time, and I just found out about that config thing. My Firefox is pretty fast, I bet that will make it a whole lot faster. My only complain though, on the Firefox, is that it is noticeably slower when I first open it. If i click the open Firefox icon, and a couple of seconds later I click the open explorer icon, explorer beats Firefox by a lot of time.
You could say that this topic was a reason why this topic is here. So I did some web surfing and
found this awesome website that really gets some good customization to your Firefox browser. Just
a small note that you will be working mostly in the about:config page so just open a new tab and of
course open this topic up or the website that this info is coming from. Sessions QUOTE
Session restore Fx 2.0 only: As a blogger and web mail user, it breaks my heart to recount how many
times I've composed a long post or email message, then accidentally closed t....
ok, here are the steps to make your firefox browser go up to 40 times faster! firstly, in your
address bar, type in about:config once it opens, it should be something not too dissimilar to
this... browse to the entry network.http.pipelining double-click on it next, browse to
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests double-click on it change the integer to 100 double click on
the value network.http.proxy.pipelining once you have found it double-click on
network.dns.disableIPv6 double-click on plugin.expose_full_path right-click on any value ,
choo....
While searching some stufff about using two different browsers I came upon this little site that
last some of the best firefox tricks ever (including the pipeline trick) they even got tricks for
lowering ram usage from firefox which is hte best thing ever, because I soak up a lot of RAM from FF
with all the extensions I have. They even got tricks I don't think most people here on the
forums know about either. For the ones I have tested so far they seem to still work on firefox
2.0.0.4 which is a good thing, but I haven't tested them on FireFox 3 yet. I would r....
If you're lured away from Firefox because it lacks IE7's new looks then you can make Firefox
look like Windows Internet Explorer 7. To do this all you need to do is to install the following
extensions and themes: myFirefox theme Firesomething 1.7 extension, hacked for Firefox 2 by
John Haller . (not working? see post #5) Firefox Showcase The myFirefox theme alters the GUI and
Firesomething the title bar. Firefox Showcase does the little tab preview thing: To alter
Firesomething so that it only displays the title Windows Internet Explorer go ....
I`m going to copy kashvet turoial how to speed up mozilla firefox, so kashvet writes: QUOTE
The firefox browser has its own default settings which need to be edited to do this...Once done
your browsing speed should increase by 300 to 500% well to access this feature type
'about:config' in the address slot (doesnt matter if you are offline)...... in the menu you
get go to network.http.pipelining by default its value is set to false, double click it to get it to
say true by enabling this your firefox browser sends multiple requests to a website in the....
This made firefox run about 4 times quicker on my ISDN connection.
1. Type "about:config" in the
adress field.
2. Set the value of network.http.pipelining to "true".
3. Set the value of
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to "100".
4. Set the value of network.http.proxy.pipelining to
"true"
5. Set the value of nglayout.initialpaint.delay to "0"
Taken from
http://www.computerbb.org/about150.html ....
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.ht....
This will make your pages load even 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: (by double clicking them) Set
"network.http.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" Set
"network.http.pip....
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