How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity)

[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!

[FreedomCalls]

Got a cite for the particular RFC it violates?

RFC 2068 I believe.

[FreedomCalls]

More intelligent discussion here at forevergeek.com:

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

[Mike Fieschko]

Thanks. Correctly described as 'more intelligent'.

[HoHoeHeaux]

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!

[KoRn]

Your quite welcome!

[KoRn]

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. ;-)

[Mike Fieschko]

And it breaks Flash apps:

Not here (yet?). Maybe some pages, but none I've visited since making the changes.

[KoRn]

The only site I can't use with FF is this banking page that requires IE. hmmmmm Banking with IE? I think not!

[KoRn]

BTTT for those who haven't seen it.

[KoRn]

Bump for those who haven't seen it!

[July 4th]

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

[KoRn]

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

[Bellflower]

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.

[ShadowAce]

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.

[KoRn]

Bumperzz

[mediamentor]

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)

[KoRn]

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. ;^)

[Lx]

BTTTTTTTTTTTTT

[katatoe]

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

[Marine Inspector]

bttt.