Make Firefox 3 Even Faster
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Firefox 3 as we all know is now super quick at loading pages. But there is always room ofr improvement and best of all since Firefox is open source software there is a lot of ways that you can mod the app.
1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit enter. You will get a warning about changing settings but we are not doing anything too radical so it is OK. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
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 8. This means it will make 8 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.
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network.http.pipelining.maxrequests - if this is set too high you’ll be hammering servers, especially as Firefox gains in market share. Be nice to the internet servers and keep it about 8-12.
@Gern
Thanks
and thanks for the tips above
Don’t blindly follow this if you don’t know what it means. Default settings are like they are for a reason.
For a slow connection, more concurrent requests usually causes more timeouts.
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests has a limit of 8, anything higher and it is ignored.
nglayout.initialpaint.delay set to zero will slow down overall page loading, set it to default 250.
@Gern - Thanks for the tip. I guess we should all be careful when hitting servers, I know mine must be feeling the traffic today and with this control we have to be careful.
@Smither - These settings are for a nice fast broadband connection and it works well. If you are on a slow or dial-up connection it likely will not help you although it should not hurt you either unless you are trying to multitask on the internet. Then you will really feel the pain of your slow connection
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Implemented all the settings on two Firefox 2.0.0.14 computers and both are visibly faster! Good show… thanks.
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Wow, this showed immediate results! Amazing!
Strange … In my Firefox 3 all these values are already like that by default.
strange enoughh too… my firefox 3 downloaded has all these (except the one needs to be created manually) settings preset in it already.
i love firefox alot better than the internet explorer because firefox can actually load a page!!!!,let alone quickly.making firefox 3 faster just makes it that much sweeter
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I always use that….tks
if u have to refresh every page more than 2-3 times, to get the full page loaded, than know that these settings are the culprit… Than reset the settings to default through firefox’s safemode…
Thank You.