Firefox tweak

[olefarte]

This may have been posted before, but I couldn't find it. I've tried this and it sure seems to do what it says, speed Firefox loading times. Found this at Forever Geek. Here's a quote of the instructions.


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 receives.

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

 

[Mikael]

I believe that this thread deserves a bump, because this little tweak is very nice!

Thanks for making this thread, olefarte. I was about to make a new thread detailing the speed increase, just incase the fine people at TechSpot didn't know about it.

Cheers!

 

[RealBlackStuff]

I applied that tweak a while ago already, but it does bugger all on my 1MB broadband.