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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!


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KEYWORDS: firefox; mozilla; pc
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To: KoRn

oops

"Tweak network" extension.


301 posted on 12/23/2004 7:02:46 PM PST by myself6 (Nazi = socialist , democrat=socialist , therefore democrat = Nazi)
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To: KoRn

Thanks much. HUGE difference here, enough so that I'm probably gonna switch from Opera to Firefox. I'm finally getting browsing that reflects the pipeline I have. Nice nice nice.

MM


302 posted on 12/23/2004 7:51:31 PM PST by MississippiMan (Americans should not be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.)
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To: MississippiMan

Good to help ya!


303 posted on 12/23/2004 7:53:19 PM PST by KoRn
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To: All

Merry Christmas!!!


304 posted on 12/24/2004 4:57:37 PM PST by KoRn
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To: KoRn
Your fame will explode: this thread has been linked on Blogdex, the weblog diffusion index, which gathers these mentions of this thread:
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305 posted on 12/27/2004 6:24:09 AM PST by Mike Fieschko (Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis ad capul tuum saxum immane mittam.)
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To: KoRn
If you have XP Pro (only pro) you can fix your reservebandwidth from default of 20% to 0%. Type GPedit.msc in run. 1)Under the Local Computer Policy, click Administrative templates. 2) on the right double click Network. This opens the tree on the right side. 3)Now double click the Qos Packet Scheduler. Now Double click Limit reservable bandwith. This will open the properties box for the Qos packet scheduler. Under the settings tab (which will open by default) click enable, then change the % from 20 to 0. Now windows won't slow down your broadband! Bad windows, bad, bad!
There is a bandwidth test as an extension.
306 posted on 12/27/2004 3:18:40 PM PST by Xeth
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To: Xeth

Nice tip!!

I read about that a long time ago and had forgotten about it. It may also work to disable that feature all together.


307 posted on 12/27/2004 3:32:27 PM PST by KoRn
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To: KoRn
I tried this, and my speed tests are consistently faster by about + .3mbps.

Thanks again!
308 posted on 12/27/2004 5:55:14 PM PST by KoRn
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To: KoRn

Bump


309 posted on 12/27/2004 6:36:50 PM PST by Truth is a Weapon (Truth, it hurts soooo good!)
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To: KoRn

bump for future geekiness


310 posted on 12/27/2004 6:52:34 PM PST by BJClinton (A Perfect Rovian Storm)
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It kind of worked for me...... w00t


311 posted on 12/27/2004 7:57:08 PM PST by impstek
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To: KoRn
Go-faster tweak for Firefox on Boing Boing today, which links to how to speed up firefox? on mozillazine.org, the official site, and which links this thread!
312 posted on 12/30/2004 7:21:56 AM PST by Mike Fieschko (A thunder of jets in an open sky ... a streak of grey ... and a cheerful 'Hi!')
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To: Mike Fieschko

BTT


313 posted on 12/30/2004 12:22:16 PM PST by KoRn
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To: ShadowAce

Could you please add me to the Firefox list?
Thanks..


314 posted on 12/30/2004 1:42:02 PM PST by herewego (based on a true story)
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To: herewego

No problem. Welcome aboard.


315 posted on 12/30/2004 2:30:42 PM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: KoRn
And now ... linuxtoday.com links to The Linux Box referencing this article.

Is getting slashdotted next?
316 posted on 01/03/2005 10:17:21 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: Mike Fieschko
From Broadband reports:
Stay away from this tweak

These settings violate the HTTP protocol, and give you a speed boost by flooding the web server with 20-something connections for every single image and page request. There's a reason that they're not the default.

These settings will not only cause many web servers to have problems, but they can also make your web browser be mistaken for a flood attack, which will make the server add your IP to an "ignore" list. Stay away from these "optimized" settings, unless you know exactly what they do and how they work.


317 posted on 01/03/2005 10:29:02 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: Mike Fieschko
From Mozillazine:
After seeing at least a couple dozen blog posts all referencing these changes to "speed up Firefox", I thought it would be worth a little explanation.

Yes, enabling HTTP pipelining can dramatically improve networking performance. The downside, and the reason it's not enabled by default, is that it can prevent Web pages from displaying correctly. If you've enabled this, and you find pages that aren't displaying correctly, please don't blame Firefox or the Web developer. It's probably the fact that you enabled an "unsupported" feature which is incompatible with some Web servers and proxy servers.

The second change, setting the initial paint delay at zero, may get you some content on the screen faster, but it's worth noting that it will dramatically slow down the time it takes the entire page to display. Here's what's going on. Gecko, Firefox's rendering engine, is trying to optimize between the cost of waiting for a bit more data versus doing more painting and reflows as new data comes in. Waiting a bit longer before it starts painting the page gives Gecko a chance to receive more content before chewing up CPU cycles to render and reflow the document. If you drop this value down to zero or near zero, that means you'll see the page start displaying a bit earlier, but not having received much data in that short interval, you'll have a lot more paint and reflow cycles to complete rendering of the page.

This one probably comes down to a combination of bandwidth, CPU speed, and personal preference. If it works for you, and you don't mind the side-effects, then great. Just note that what works for one person/system, may not work for another.

Yes, there are tuning change you can make (even at compile time, see Moox' optimized builds) that will dramatically alter the performance characteristics of Firefox. Feel free to experiment, but remember that most of the defaults are defaults for a reason. If your browser starts misbehaving or web sites look broken, it might be worth going back to default settings.


318 posted on 01/03/2005 10:30:49 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: FreedomCalls
Got a cite for the particular RFC it violates? Later posts in the broadbandreports.com thread, replying to the unregistered user there claiming a violation, say this is pipelining requests, not CONNECT.
319 posted on 01/03/2005 10:35:58 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: Mike Fieschko
And it breaks Flash apps:
"Enabling pipelining in Firefox can speed up complex page retrievals, as you note, but it can also break Flash. This is a Macromedia thing not a Firefox thing but that’s why the app defaults to pipelining disabled."

320 posted on 01/03/2005 10:36:10 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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