make your firefox faster

[permabanned]

copied from probetalk

This is an old trick but it still works and even better with the newer versions.

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Useful guide on speeding up FireFox for broadband users

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.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!

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Hope this helps anyone. I didn't think it was possible to make FireFox a better browser than it is but this definitely does.

it made mine much faster. highly recommended

[subzero]

cool, thanks.

[watkins]

But thats for old FF. Im using 3.7

[AHTOXA]

I did this but not sure I can tell a difference. Mine's always been fast, really.

[watkins]

use this

http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/

Everything there and more, all automated, no having to manually configure anything.

Thats what Im talking about:
"Fasterfox 2.0.0 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 3.0.7."
So its 3.0.7. either way, no worky

[Leedeth]

use this

http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/

Everything there and more, all automated, no having to manually configure anything.

Thats what Im talking about:
"Fasterfox 2.0.0 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 3.0.7."
So its 3.0.7. either way, no worky

It's not working for me either.

[vedran]

that trick is from 1999

thanks for sharing though

[Tinton]

Sweet, it loads faster now. Especially when I start up a browser and load my pages from last time, all my old pages come up instantly. It used to take like 10-20 seconds for them to come up. Awesome

[watkins]

So doing it the right way is fun

[watkins]

Oh it works quite well. But now Ive forgotten I did it and am already used to the speed increase

[Tinton]

I'm bumping a 2 month old thread cause I don't see a reason to make a new 1 .

Anyways, I customized my Firefox a bit and made it look a lot sleeker. I also made it so the stock Firefox downloader loads in a tab instead of a new window. I think it looks a lot better, :

[theholycow]

Looks great. What's the trick to get the downloads to open in a tab?

[Tinton]

Looks great. What's the trick to get the downloads to open in a tab?

With this add-on: http://dmextension.mozdev.org/

The latest version, for Firefox 3.0, is hard to find and only on their website. It makes it pretty easy to control the stock Firefox downloader .

There's a few Firefox tweak guides up on the web, one of them gave me the ideas to slim down Firefox. So I won't explain how to customize it, you guys can go read one of the guides .

[StrangeWill]

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

Thank you, that bit of information has pissed off many a webserver owner.

Lots of idiots setting it to like 100... greattttt.

[eaglecatcher]

I set mine to like 45. lol.

It is noticeably faster. Nice.