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Make Firefox 2 - 3 times faster


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For those who dont know this already:

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 2-3 times faster now.

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It puts a shitload of strain on the servers, though. I mean.. one person won't really matter, but if every visitor to a site were to do that.. wow.

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Pity the bellazon server!

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I don't recommend changing the pipelining to 30 at all; Mozilla set it at the default of 3\4 for a reason.

Pipelining just creates more connections to the server, most servers have a maximum load (I think by default Apache has a load of 200 or something), so people connecting with 30 at a time is going to hammer any servers visited (and when you sum it up, how much faster are you really loading the page; I doubt it's fast enough to warrant the hammering the servers take).

If you feel compelled to change the pipelining I would advise a maximum of 8 connections in the pipeline.

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It puts a shitload of strain on the servers, though. I mean.. one person won't really matter, but if every visitor to a site were to do that.. wow.

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