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[XxInColdBloodxX]

This Tweak will speed up the page loading in your Mozilla Firefox browser.

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!

[DarkShadow]

Theres a ton of good resources on such a thing..

Firefox Tuning - MozillaZine Forums
mozdev.org preferential: preferences
Darrel Norton's Blog: Speeding up Firefox
Tweakfactor: Firefox Tweak Guide

Hope you find some of these informative, But some of it may be out of date, I would Recommand an extension such as "FasterFox" which changes some of your settings the same way, but instead of changing it one by one, its Button based.


FasterFox Homepage

[Mr. Sticks]

I love me my Fasterfox, lol. Blood had me download Fasterfox the first day I started using Firefox, and I've loved it ever since I got it. Great way to speed up Firefox.

EDIT: Wow, I just did what you suggested above Blood, and I noticed quite an increase. I'll check out the link you put up too Shadow, but I'll probably wait and do that in the morning.

Edited by Mr. Sticks, 05 August 2006 - 02:15 AM.

[ShLoNkY]

Or you could just use Opera instead.

[Chris82]

Or, you could get FireFox, a browser that is already considerably fast because it isn't bloated, but contains extra security features, and that also supports skins and extensions, such as the one above, that make it even better.

Edited by Chris82, 05 August 2006 - 11:40 AM.

[Mandraque]

Or, you could get FireFox, a browser that is already considerably fast because it isn't bloated, but contains extra security features, and that also supports skins and extensions, such as the one above, that make it even better.

i dont get you on that one...

[poopsmcgee]

OMG SPEEDH4X


Seriously though i tried it and nothing changed for me

Poopie edit: hadn't restarted FF, after restart it does seem faster and kinda jerky on load...but faster yes.

I guess I'm an insufferable n00b for not knowing that I could tweak FF for better performance. shame on me

Edited by poopsmcgee, 05 August 2006 - 01:55 PM.

[XxInColdBloodxX]

Or you could just use Opera instead.

[Mr. Sticks]

Or, you could get FireFox, a browser that is already considerably fast because it isn't bloated, but contains extra security features, and that also supports skins and extensions, such as the one above, that make it even better.

Chris speaks the truth! Finally someone who can explain why Firefox>all.

[medel]

Or you could just use Opera instead.

Hooah!

Or, you could get FireFox, a browser that is already considerably fast because it isn't bloated, but contains extra security features, and that also supports skins and extensions, such as the one above, that make it even better.

Bloated? It takes more memory for fewer features by default. Most extensions end up making it more like Opera, and Opera has java extensions also. :D

I've been using opera pretty much forever. It's just sooo fast. I'm still not sure why people say opera is bloated when I can be on 2 IRC channels, have email open and various webpages open and still use less memory than firefox that's just opened. Oh well, as long as it's not IE it isn't too bad. Opera's biggest downfall is its small following. Sometimes webpages manage to find things that don't work in Opera and nobody looks for them..

[Chris82]

Bloated? It takes more memory for fewer features by default. Most extensions end up making it more like Opera, and Opera has java extensions also. :D

Yeah, I have a FireFox window open with eight tabs active. 115mb used.

By comparison, Internet Explorer 6 with eight windows open takes up around 60mb.




Do I care? No. I have 1GB of memory. It really doesn't affect me.

But it sometimes does start up slow, which is why a got this. It preloads FF into Windows like Internet Explorer so it starts up quicker.

[ghozy]

it is because the page cache. if you reduce the number of in memoey page cache to 1 or 2 it wont go up like that. No, I don't mean the cache on your harddrive. Firefox keeps last visited pages in memory for quick backward operations. cache size depends on your computer's total memory. You can adjust it so it will keep 1 or 2 pages maximum. it will reduce the memory use of firefox. Imho keeping this memory cache this big is useless with the tabbed browsing it is rare people goes more than 2 pages back. when it hapens firefox will use hard drive cache anyway.

[medel]

Eh, I'm not quite in the mood to argue opera vs firefox. If you like firefox, then by all means it should be your #1. I just find opera to be faster all around with a smaller footprint. Firefox logo > opera's, though (by a lot). Pisses me off that the linux one seems to be different from the cute fox chasing its tale...

[Mr. Sticks]

Since we are on the topic of Firefox, take a look at this, it's hilarious:

http://video.google....3...5&q=Firefox

[Buddha]

I'm pretty pissed with firefox cuz it crashed today and I'm not smart enough to fix it. Every time i try to use it it says "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system." So if you could help me that woulg be great thanks.

[poopsmcgee]

I'm pretty pissed with firefox cuz it crashed today and I'm not smart enough to fix it. Every time i try to use it it says "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system." So if you could help me that woulg be great thanks.

well restarting teh system will do it, but that's a pain if it happens often.

just get into task manager (ctrl alt del) and under the processes tab you will see firefox.exe right click on it and click end process. It might com eup with a program not responding window, if so, click end now.

Then I would go to mozilla and update the program

Edited by poopsmcgee, 08 August 2006 - 11:08 AM.

[Buddha]

ya restarting worked but then it screwed up again. ill try that.
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[XxInColdBloodxX]

Hit Ctrl-Alt-Del then go to "processes" and end it from their.

[Ezekiel]

Old topic I know, but to say I posted this little quip of info back in early March.

http://forums.boss-g...?showtopic=4044