Speed Up Firefox

[p1p]

For those who, like me, use Firefox. The following will help make things a bit quicker.

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 2-3 times faster now.

You could also use the "Fasterfox" plugin. But these edits make more changes to the config, resulting in the programme running faster and with more stability.

Enjoy.

[poorfarang]

I use the plugin called fasterfox, which controls similar settings

[penzman]

What an improvement! Even with DSL.

Thanks P1P

[zzap]

Wow, a remarkable speed-up even on my 3-bites-per-hour GPRS!

Thanks p1p!

[Dah fahrang]

Gotta thankyou for sharing this.

As another tired GPRS user, used to watching paint dry, your instructions have changed things quite a bit. Not the lightning speed of broadband, but very acceptable speed for all pages I have tried since following your advice.

Many thanks!

[sungod]

Can we have a new reward for most useful post of the week! Thanks, as we say in the UK, thats the <deleted>!!!!

[francois]

hi'

you can find a small prog called firetune that tweak those settings for you

francois

[ianc66]

Thanks for the post -- it prodded me into trying Firefox (1.5.0.1)again and I'm finding the experience good Firefox seems visually much sharper than Explorer. It works with everyting I've tried so far except the web interface of the IPSTAR satellite modem. Only small problem I had was that it did'nt import all of my bookmarks and I had to do some manually -- but this was good gave an opportunity to discard some. The tweaks do improve performance somewhat.

Thanks

Edited March 21, 2006 by ianc66

[Insight]

Only just converted to Firefox a week ago. Tried a few times before, but the glitches in previous versions forced me back to IE.

The latest version, long with p1p's suggestions, has labelled me a big fan of Firefox.

[breconion]

Only just converted to Firefox a week ago. Tried a few times before, but the glitches in previous versions forced me back to IE.

The latest version, long with p1p's suggestions, has labelled me a big fan of Firefox.

Using the plunin "fasterfox" sets this up except the max pages is set to 8.

If you guys like firefox youm should try firefox mobile.

Load it onto a usb drive and copy across the listed files in the help file and hey presto you can use your firefox on any computer thsat accepts your USB device.

A little slow to start but then it is ok after it loads. and nothing is left on the host computer and you can have your usual firefor layout.

[Artisan]

Fasterfox Link

[agsnowdon]

Could this improve my dial up connection?

[thohts]

Be sure to set the automatic.middle.finger.to.mict (cyberclean) setting to "true"

That way, when you surf legitimate sites like searchfeed.com for your job you don't get a "sorry.. this is Thailand" message.