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 Re: Firefox speedboost
Posted by $loth on Mon Dec 20th at 4:14pm 2004

Well basically I've just got firefox after a lot of curiosity and people saying it's great, which in this short space of time I've been using it, it is. It's got a nice layout etc bla bla, now on with why I made this thread.

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.

Found here: http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=368879
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Posted by OtZman on Mon Dec 20th at 4:29pm 2004

Sounds cool, giving this a try.

Thx for the tip
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Posted by Forceflow on Mon Dec 20th at 5:02pm 2004

Using this for a long time. Works great. I got some more tweaks, I'll post them later.
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Posted by KungFuSquirrel on Mon Dec 20th at 5:07pm 2004

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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Mon Dec 20th at 5:26pm 2004

I think this was mentioned before, and there was some reason not to do it. It might have been somthing to do with increasing the load on servers or servers intreperting it as an attack or some gibberish.




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Posted by Gwil on Mon Dec 20th at 5:29pm 2004

Am I alone in thinking that broadband doesn't need a speed boost anyway? I'm sure there must be some reason not to use it, it would have been circulated across the net like wildfire..


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Posted by $loth on Mon Dec 20th at 5:39pm 2004

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Am I alone in thinking that broadband doesn't need a speed boost anyway? I'm sure there must be some reason not to use it, it would have been circulated across the net like wildfire..




Because we all want that split second faster connection. Also, pages seem to load faster as I changed network.http.pipelining.maxrequests from the default 4 to 50.
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Posted by SaintGreg on Mon Dec 20th at 6:22pm 2004

Kind of seems like how a download manager wil work. They will make many simultaneous connections with a server (if that server supports it) to make downloads go faster. With very fast connections it really does make it go alot faster. I'm definitely gonna try it, thanks for the linky sloth




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Posted by Gorbachev on Mon Dec 20th at 6:49pm 2004

I'm sure lots of servers will deny more than one or so attempts from a location. This just isn't that great of an idea from a host perspective.
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Posted by xconspirisist on Mon Dec 20th at 7:09pm 2004

From a peon prespective, thanks for the awsome tip. For a webhost prespective, I looked at my load moniter jobby, and it doesnt have much of an effect. Tested with and without the features; you're web browser is still sending / reciving ~ the same amount of data, just in rapid sucession. Because the data is comparitivly small when compared to the load of a DOS attack for example, I wouldent worry too much about host's blocking you're IP.

fyi, It works in all gecko engine browsers; mozilla, firefox, epiphany, ( msie ? )...



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Posted by satchmo on Mon Dec 20th at 7:35pm 2004

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I'm sure there must be some reason not to use it, it would have been circulated across the net like wildfire..

Well...It is spreading like wildfire, as we speak. I've seen a few people using these settings, and so far they are just enjoying the speed boost without experiencing any negative consequences.

I am implementing it right now. Thanks for the tip (perhaps one of the most useful tips I've seen in years).
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Posted by Forceflow on Mon Dec 20th at 9:11pm 2004

I've been looking for a lot of firefox tweaks, and this is my current setup:

This is my user.js

(has to go into ...Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/(wierd profile name containing numbers and letters)
If it doesn't exist, create it.

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user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 8191);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 100);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("keyword.URL", "http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Google+Search&q=");

That last tweak makes that when you just enter a word in the url field, Firefox will open the Google search page, instead of the "feeling lucky" page.

Also, this is my userchrome.css

 (has to go into ...Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/(wierd profile name containing numbers and letters)/Chrome)
If it doesn't exist, create it.

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/* Remove the Go and Help menus
(These are just examples. Try changing "Go" to "Edit" or "Bookmarks") */
menu[label="Go"], menu[label="Help"] {
display: none !important;
}
/* Remove extra padding from the Navigation Bar */
.toolbarbutton-1, .toolbarbutton-menubutton-button {
padding: 2px 3px !important;
}
.toolbarbutton-1[checked="true"], .toolbarbutton-1[open="true"],
.toolbarbutton-menubutton-button[checked="true"],
.toolbarbutton-menubutton-button[open="true"] {
padding: 4px 1px 1px 4px !important;
}


Have fun !

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Posted by Forceflow on Mon Dec 20th at 10:05pm 2004

And oh yeah, this is absolutely a good tweak. I got a 1 sec/2 sec gain per page with the tweaks, and especially loading images goes a lot faster.

Especially the nglayout.initialpaintdelay is a huge boost. Most of them tweaks just make your browser use multiple connections (you've got broadband, so you want to use it to the max, right ?) or make page rendering faster. (something with the mozilla engine.)

Don't be afraid to use these tweaks, they've really made browsing very enjoyable and fast for me.

Also look for Firefox extensions. There are a lot of them coming in handy. I've got Targetlink, for example. If a link leads to a special document (PDF, excel, doc, executable), a small icon appears next to it. Some websites don't make it very clear.

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Posted by xconspirisist on Mon Dec 20th at 11:04pm 2004

While we're on the topic of general extension's, i'll pimp 'bookmarklets'. If you've never heard of them, they're small javascript lines of code that can edit pages, and do a myraid of things. I've got one setup to put borders on all tables, makes editing websites with many tables very fast indeed. All you need to do is bookmark the code, Checkout official sites for a more detailed explination;

http://www.webreference.com/js/column35/
http://www.bookmarklets.com/
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/



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 Re: Firefox speedboost
Posted by SaintGreg on Tue Dec 21st at 2:46am 2004

I would suggest getting the google toolbar extension. It has all the functionality of the real googlebar for IE, except that its for firefox. This is much more prefferable to entering searches into the address bar since then every time you scroll it you gotta go past them.




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Posted by Crono on Tue Dec 21st at 2:58am 2004

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I would suggest getting the google toolbar extension. It has all the functionality of the real googlebar for IE, except that its for firefox. This is much more prefferable to entering searches into the address bar since then every time you scroll it you gotta go past them.


It's built in.
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Posted by SaintGreg on Tue Dec 21st at 3:46am 2004

Thats just searches. The real thing has alot more functionality. The thing I use the most is that you can highlight text in a web page, then search for it automatically. This is much easier than having to copy paste intothe search field. But thats just one example.




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Posted by Forceflow on Tue Dec 21st at 7:01am 2004

I can do that now too ... I select a text, rightclick on it, choose "search the web for ..."
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Posted by Crono on Tue Dec 21st at 7:14am 2004

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I can do that now too ... I select a text, rightclick on it, choose "search the web for ..."


Same here. It's a built in Mozilla/FireFox feature. (as I said)
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Posted by Leperous on Tue Dec 21st at 11:09am 2004

... and hold SHIFT when clicking if you want it to open in a new window Has anyone else seen the new Google "auto-fill" feature? Doesn't seem very 56k-friendly but a good idea...




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