Speed up Firefox

[Fewmitz]

Note: This only works for Broadband users.

Ok, I'm actually surprised I didn't see this one in here already. Well, it's nice and simple:

1- Type "about:config" without the quotes in the address bar

2-Filter to find these properties:

• network.http.pipelining
• network.http.proxy.pipelining
• network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

3-Right Click them and

• Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
• Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
• Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 8

4- Right Click anywhere and select new->Integer. Name it
“nglayout.initialpaint.delay” also without the quotes and set the value to 0



This will make pages load much faster.



I searched and didn't see it, if this is already posted, feel free to delete it.

[toomanyusernames]

step 2 was kinda hard, they way you had the code thingy was wrong, you put "network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests"
it should be 2 parts like network.http.pipelining"
"network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests"

i know that threw me off, i dont know if it did anyone else

[[AC!DWIRE]]

I don't really know how to set the value. and integer keeps turning into boolean. ;-;

[Fewmitz]

Originally Posted by toomanyusernames

step 2 was kinda hard, they way you had the code thingy was wrong, you put "network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests"
it should be 2 parts like network.http.pipelining"
"network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests"

i know that threw me off, i dont know if it did anyone else

Haha, it looked like a break when I posted it, my bad :x.

Acid- I...have no idea.

[MintCreme]

Dude. That SO worked.

Just for a curious mind-- Mind telling me what the heck I just did?

[toomanyusernames]

Originally Posted by Alicia

Dude. That SO worked.

Just for a curious mind-- Mind telling me what the heck I just did?

i know with the max request one, it makes it where you can have more than x number of pages loading at once but thats it

[toomanyusernames]

Good job

[Jax]

It starts off loading the page the same speed (slower actually) but then when it starts to pop up, its goes super fast, and it all loads at once.

[MintCreme]

I think it's possible that it's just an illusion of extra speed. Maybe not. I don't know. ^^

It makes me happy to wait an extra second and then have everything already loaded.

[Fewmitz]

I edited it slightly to make it easier to read. And for the record, this is what each does:

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests -> how many requests it can receive at once (it won't get any faster after like 8 though

The two booleans just allow the above to happen, and the one I had you add is used to determine how long Firefox waits until it begins accepting data.