Author Topic: Attn: Firefox users... (Read 588 times)

SaburoS · « **on:** July 09, 2005, 03:11:17 PM »

Holy cow, this is good! This I got from another BBS. It works awesome!
Edit: I think it's only for those with broadband.

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If any of you guys are using Firefox, here's a great tweak that you can use to REALLY speed up your webpage load times.

As posted by a squadmate:

Any Mozilla and Firefox users? Broadband Only

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.maxre quests

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.maxre quests" 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!

Jay "TBolt"
Picture Hangar - User Admin.
http://WWW.PICTUREHANGAR.COM

Nilsen · « **Reply #1 on:** July 09, 2005, 03:29:04 PM »

any reason why the guys at mozilla has not set these settings by default?

there has to be a reason for that

Tarmac · « **Reply #2 on:** July 09, 2005, 03:35:31 PM »

Nice firefox tweak. Seems to work well set for 4.

moot · « **Reply #3 on:** July 09, 2005, 03:56:02 PM »

not working for me.

about :config gives an URL error, and about: config does nothing.

edit- about: config is what the second italics should say.

Martlet · « **Reply #4 on:** July 09, 2005, 04:07:56 PM »

no spaces

moot · « **Reply #5 on:** July 09, 2005, 04:12:41 PM »

Thank you.

SaburoS · « **Reply #6 on:** July 09, 2005, 05:09:20 PM »

Thanks Martlet.
Unfortunetly, I can't edit my post.
BTW, a big thank you to you for mentioning Firefox. I haven't touched IE (MS's version) since then.

Martlet · « **Reply #7 on:** July 09, 2005, 05:25:30 PM »

Me either. I've been using it since early beta. I love the new update function that even searches for updates for all your plugins.

Nilsen · « **Reply #8 on:** July 09, 2005, 05:26:45 PM »

Firefox fan myself. I have really tried to like Opera since its norwegian and all but its just too bloated.

Martlet · « **Reply #9 on:** July 09, 2005, 05:29:46 PM »

Opera is still a decent alternative to IE, but in my opinion isn't as good as FF.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #10 on:** July 09, 2005, 07:52:35 PM »

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Originally posted by Martlet
Me either. I've been using it since early beta. I love the new update function that even searches for updates for all your plugins.

does it automatically copy over all your bookmarks too?(from prvious firefox versions)
I havent udated in a while because it didnt

Martlet · « **Reply #11 on:** July 09, 2005, 07:54:30 PM »

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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
does it automatically copy over all your bookmarks too?(from prvious firefox versions)
I havent udated in a while because it didnt

Just export your bookmarks. I always keep a back-up copy of mine in case one of the little tested builds I like to install deletes it.

Sandman · « **Reply #12 on:** July 09, 2005, 09:26:54 PM »

I saw this tweak a few months ago and made the change. FWIW, I don't see much of a difference.

I have noticed that FireFox takes forever to load. Is there a config for that?

faint · « **Reply #13 on:** July 09, 2005, 09:41:09 PM »

Does this work for DSL users aswell?

Tarmac · « **Reply #14 on:** July 09, 2005, 11:18:19 PM »

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Originally posted by Sandman
I saw this tweak a few months ago and made the change. FWIW, I don't see much of a difference.

I have noticed that FireFox takes forever to load. Is there a config for that?

To load pages, or to load the program when you open it? For loading pages, somebody posted another tweak a few months back that made a huge difference. Unfortunately I'm not finding it in a search right now.

ed: going off memory, I think it involved setting the network.dns.disableIPv6 to true.