FireFox Load Time - speed up

Ice Rich · 27 Dec 2006 at 19:04

FireFox Load Time

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 brodband connection you'll load pages 2-3 times faster now.

Taken From nother Forum.

Sharq · 27 Dec 2006 at 19:35

Hmm...Should i do this or not people? :confused:

Actually, i have the FasterFox plugin!

Clarkey · 27 Dec 2006 at 19:37

sod that just get the fasterfox extension.

Supercow · 27 Dec 2006 at 19:37

So•H I Gunit H**•mp3 said:
Hmm...Should i do this or not people? :S

If your firefox is loading too slow for you, why not?

Sharq · 27 Dec 2006 at 19:39

Dont really notice it to be honest. Everything loads quick&fine....except hi5!

t31os · 27 Dec 2006 at 23:17

Tweaks worked well for me. thanx

sja360 · 27 Dec 2006 at 23:37

worked here also does load abit faster but lets face it with broadband its fairly quick at loading anyhow.

t31os · 27 Dec 2006 at 23:42

sja360 said:
worked here also does load abit faster but lets face it with broadband its fairly quick at loading anyhow.

Dunno about that, been finding my FF real sluggish since the last few updates, those tweaks have just made load times much better.

GM@N · 27 Dec 2006 at 23:48

Some sites will block you if you are using this tweak. Just thought I'd warn you.

DanMc07 · 28 Dec 2006 at 01:56

just input these now, will see how it holds out

Craig321 · 28 Dec 2006 at 02:22

Been doing these for over a year now for all the Firefoxes, works very well

Clarkey · 28 Dec 2006 at 02:22

GM@N said:
Some sites will block you if you are using this tweak. Just thought I'd warn you.

never heard of that actually happening, sounds like a myth to me.

Craig321 · 28 Dec 2006 at 02:24

Clarkey said:
never heard of that actually happening, sounds like a myth to me.

dnsstuff.com is the only site that, at one point, attempted to block me when I had FasterFox on... I refreshed once after that and it never came up again.

Clarkey · 28 Dec 2006 at 02:32

just been to that site with fasterfox on, not been blocked...

escape sanity · 28 Dec 2006 at 02:35

I have always had problems using Firefox and this hack where the incorrect images would be loaded.. for example, I was on the website of a catalogue store and their logo was replaced with a picture of a cat stretched to fit the same dimensions.

Craig321 · 28 Dec 2006 at 02:47

Clarkey said:
just been to that site with fasterfox on, not been blocked...

Yea, it seems they tried the blocker out for about a day and then disabled it... it was probably very buggy.