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#1 December 25 2004

Ragnar78
Member

Huge Firefox performance optmization

I found on a website a method to increase 2 to 3 times the speed to loading pages with FireFox. The connection should be broadband

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

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#2 December 25 2004

samer
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Re: Huge Firefox performance optmization

thanks for he info Ragnar :)

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#3 December 25 2004

Ragnar78
Member

Re: Huge Firefox performance optmization

no problem...

Actually i never thought of how i could access the config utilities for firefox...
the "about:config" has everything...just have to figure what each means (or at least get the most important lines)

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#4 December 25 2004

samer
Admin

Re: Huge Firefox performance optmization

yes .. i've been playing around with the configs ..  it's very interesting,

thanks again.

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#5 December 27 2004

Parabola
Member

Re: Huge Firefox performance optmization

I was going to post the same thing.. But there is something different in the thing I found !

Now right click and select new string

nglayout.initialpaint.delay 0

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#6 December 27 2004

cyber_lady
Member

Re: Huge Firefox performance optmization

thankx for the tip

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#7 January 28 2005

waleed
Member

Re: Huge Firefox performance optmization

nyuhuhuhahaha geeky stuff!
mucho gracias !

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#8 January 29 2005

mezin
Member

Re: Huge Firefox performance optmization

thanx .. keep 'em coming

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