firefox- changing the settings to make it fast

[Dilly man 2]

i know how to do it and i did it. i set the number of requests to send to like 30 and seems to be working amazingly. It just takes up bandwith with i have a lot of.

has anyone else done this with firefox?

 

[tomb08uk]

Not sure, i once knew their was a way of changing the values of the requests or something.. explain what you mean please...

 

[Dilly man 2]

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!

I have been testing it and it seems to load the page instantly, i mean within 1 second! to tell you the truth, i dont see the loading bar anymore!

 

[tomb08uk]

Yes, its the same thing as i have seen before on another web site, only thing i have realised it has made no effect at all on my page loading time...

 

[Dilly man 2]

wierd, im going a ton faster
i like it, just thought i would ask if it legit or something i dunno.

if anyone wants to try it and has firefox, give it a go. if you dont notice anything just put it on default settings. but i dont think ill go back anytime soon

-Joe

 

[tomb08uk]

What version of firefox are you running on? I have 1.5, the latest..well their is a 1.6 beta but im still on 1.5.

 

[Dilly man 2]

1.5

 

[Rambo]

Thanks! This is MUCH faster

 

[Dilly man 2]

work for u too?

 

[ack]

i know how to do it and i did it. i set the number of requests to send to like 30 and seems to be working amazingly. It just takes up bandwith with i have a lot of.

has anyone else done this with firefox?

Yes, i have done this and it does work.

 

[Rambo]

work for u too?

Indeed it did. Much much faster. Although, what kind of effect does this have on your bandwidth?

 

[LongLiveTheRepublic]

i don't like doing this to FireFox because it Loads the Images Slower. it may be fast i don't know but i see the images loading slower when i do this. so if you do see this, just re-install and it will get fixed. i have fast internet so i don't need this.

 

[Rambo]

i don't like doing this to FireFox because it Loads the Images Slower. it may be fast i don't know but i see the images loading slower when i do this. so if you do see this, just re-install and it will get fixed. i have fast internet so i don't need this.

Well, that doesn't happen to me. When I click a link, instead of it delaying, it automatically loads the page instantly. I don't understand why an image would take longer...

 

[Jon Boy]

I was just wondering if Iset that valueto 15instead of 30 would Istill get significantly reduced loading times but half the bandwidth?

 

[ReturnToEmpire]

i think internet explorer is fine, its a browser, does it even qualify as a program? i mean IE was fine until some geeks started spitting crap about it, now all of a sudden its bad? ive used IE all my (short) life and ive never gotten anything from it, didnt give me an STD, run adaware, micrososft antispyware, and pc cillin, youll see you dont get any less spyware from firefox as you do with IE

 

[Dilly man 2]

ive never hated ie, i just like this a bit better.
i dunno, its alot faster 4 me!

 

[Jon Boy]

i think internet explorer is fine, its a browser, does it even qualify as a program? i mean IE was fine until some geeks started spitting crap about it, now all of a sudden its bad? ive used IE all my (short) life and ive never gotten anything from it, didnt give me an STD, run adaware, micrososft antispyware, and pc cillin, youll see you dont get any less spyware from firefox as you do with IE

Well number one thatsnot the issue on discussion here. But while you on the topic.
No one ever said there was anything wrong with IE, firefox is exactely the same butbasicaly an upgrade. It has more utilities attached, you can change the skin. And its easier to view favourites and stuff. And now since I done what that guide said is actualy faster.

 

[Rambo]

The ONLY reason I choose FF over IE is the fact you have tabbed browsing features. For something that is such a ridiculously small request, Microsft has to go and make a whole new version of IE for tabbed browsing - yet they can't release a plugin/update for IE6?

 

[Jon Boy]

The ONLY reason I choose FF over IE is the fact you have tabbed browsing features. For something that is such a ridiculously small request, Microsft has to go and make a whole new version of IE for tabbed browsing - yet they can't release a plugin/update for IE6?

Ohh yeah that tabbed feature is soooo usefull. I love it, instead of having 8 windows open you have one and can tab through them.

And ohh I never knew microsfot released a tabbed version??. Whats the problems with that then?

 

[Rambo]

And ohh I never knew microsfot released a tabbed version??. Whats the problems with that then?

That's the whole problem! They haven't. Instead, they are making a whole new version of IE (Internet Explorer 7) with the tabbed browsing feature. If they made a plugin/update for IE6, they would have so many people going back to using IE instead of FF (well, IMO they would ).

Oh, and to top it all off, IE7 is going to be released with Vista, so expect it in the next year (when we will be using FireFox 2.5 or something ).