Speed Up Firefox!
<div class="IPBDescription">A few manual tweaks</div> 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 receives.
These tweaks have made quite a difference for me.
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 receives.
These tweaks have made quite a difference for me.
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Permission to repost this in other forums?
Indeed? I shall have to look into it.
Still good advice. There's a small EXE program somewhere that automates this process, which is how I've done it previously. Still, it's far more pr0 to use your method.
GJ
This info is new to me.
Been using this tweak for quite sometime.
Would the Admin like to confirm/deny?
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edit- tycho, how many tabs or windows did you have open?
Like 3.
Edit:
<a href='http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/pipelining-faq.html' target='_blank'>Network Pipelining</a> isn't what you may be thinking it is.
All your doing is requesting the same data at once rather than requesting one, waiting for a reply, requesting another etc.
Actually, it can. It's a registry tweak. I forgot where though.
And yes, do not use a value like 30. That's way overkill and it wastes bandwidth (yours and the server's). Not every packet sent through HTTP is rendered to the browser, there are also a lot of other things sent back and forth too. I'd suggest something more along the lines of... 4 at the most.
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Tycho: Try doing it one window again, should work.
Not true, UnCritical got it right.
don't go over 5 connections to a site
note: pipelining does not "screw" bandwidth as a page with 10MB of images will still only puch 10MB, the problem is if the page has 100x 100kb images and you send GETs to the server for all of them at once:
1) the sever's bandwidth use and cpu load will spike
2) the server may think it's being attacked and issue a ban