Firefox speedboost

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

Sounds cool, giving this a try.

Thx for the tip :smile:

Using this for a long time. Works great. I got some more tweaks, I'll post them later.

cool, I'll check this out when I get home.

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.

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..

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.

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 :smile:

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.

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 ? )...

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).

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.

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 <span style="font-weight: bold;">userchrome.css

</span>
(has to go into ...Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/(wierd profile name containing numbers and letters)/Chrome)

If it doesn't exist, create it.

/* Remove the Go and Help menus<br style="font-weight: bold;">
(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 !

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.

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/

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.

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.

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.

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

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)

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

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

Yup, my friend showed it to me yesturday, seems a good idea, and besides, more people are getting broadband aren't they?

Nice speedboost there! cheers!

there was an option in plain old mozilla to do this, but i was wondering about firefox,

? quote: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)

The google toolbar extension adds lots of other things like the "search this site" option, google groups search, translate page and all that. It's really a very handy extension. I don't see any place where that's possible from within the base install.

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

The middle mouse button does it too ... or maybe I changed it and just don't remember :smile:

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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting satchmo</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext> Thanks for the tip (perhaps one of the most useful tips I've seen in years).
</DIV></DIV>
THIS is one of the best tips ever :biggrin:

On the topic of FireFox...get Adblock and one of the Extensions for Mouse Gestures, they're handy tools.

I'm trying to get to grips with mouse gestures at the minute. Very, very handy, and hopefully in time it will become second nature to me. (im still having to look at the status bar to make sure I haven't gestured for the self destruct feature) :razz: