Faster Firefox

knightmare · Post by **knightmare** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 12:06 pm

How To Speed Up Firefox

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 receives.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!

Paft · Post by **Paft** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 12:29 pm

Be careful with the HTTP pipelining requests. You're making 30 requests at once, yes.. 30 seperate, distinct requests to some webserver that may only have the ability to handle 100 requests at a time. Four people going to that site brings the whole thing down.

Keep it around 5-10 and you're fine.

Prey521 · Post by **Prey521** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:22 pm

knightmare · Post by **knightmare** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 5:59 pm

It really does work, my Firefox loads thru sites much faster, especially here @SG

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:04 pm

knightmare wrote:It really does work, my Firefox loads thru sites much faster, especially here @SG

Ya it does, the was an old old old thread about it. You should consider 15 instead of 30 though.

knightmare · Post by **knightmare** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:08 pm

mine is set on 10, does just fine. I never saw the thread. It was something I didn't know, maybe this is a good repost.....

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:15 pm

knightmare wrote:mine is set on 10, does just fine. I never saw the thread. It was something I didn't know, maybe this is a good repost.....

It is a good one, the thread is beyond pages old LOL

TrevGlas · Post by **TrevGlas** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:02 pm

Already done this, but this would make a GREAT sticky thread

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:13 pm

TrevGlas wrote:Already done this, but this would make a GREAT sticky thread

Too many already

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:25 pm

Cabledude wrote:Too many already

You could add it to cyphers firefox sticky!

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:32 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:You could add it to cyphers firefox sticky!

Here! Here!

knightmare · Post by **knightmare** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:43 pm

TrevGlas wrote:Already done this, but this would make a GREAT sticky thread

Thx, you would be surprised at the people who do not know this-- me for one.

And I've been using FF for over a year.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:37 pm

knightmare wrote:Thx, you would be surprised at the people who do not know this-- me for one.

And I've been using FF for over a year.

oh yeah, I've been using it for like 50 years!

knightmare · Post by **knightmare** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 9:09 pm

zooner wrote:oh yeah, I've been using it for like 50 years!

MadDoctor · Post by **MadDoctor** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 10:14 pm

Cabledude wrote:Here! Here!

That AV of yours has got to be one of the best I've seen!!!!!!

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 1:26 am

MadDoctor wrote:That AV of yours has got to be one of the best I've seen!!!!!!

yeah but who is it???

FF for the only machine i have it on is set to 10 i believe.. saw it on a thread that everyone is saying already exists. I agree too you got to watch how many you open.

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:41 am

I have played and played with different settings to speed up Firefox and I have found Fasterfox actually slows things down. Try uninstalling Fasterfox then putting these settings in your user.js file:

user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", true);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
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", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 750);

MadDoctor · Post by **MadDoctor** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 2:41 pm

[quote="mnosteele52"]I have played and played with different settings to speed up Firefox and I have found Fasterfox actually slows things down. Try uninstalling Fasterfox then putting these settings in your user.js file:

user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", true)]
Thanks!

I'll give it a try sir!

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 5:48 pm

Been using these tweaks for 'bout a year

https://www.speedguide.net/forums/ ... ed+firefox

TrevGlas · Post by **TrevGlas** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:29 pm

I find that if I set the initialpaint.delay setting to 0 , it runs MUCH faster, renders just about instantly

Faction · Post by **Faction** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:29 am

after doing this some of my images don't fully load or don't load at all.

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:38 am

Faction wrote:after doing this some of my images don't fully load or don't load at all.

Open up your Options under the Tools menu and then click the content tab..double check that load images is checked and not load images from originating website only

Craig321 · Post by **Craig321** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 4:28 pm

knightmare wrote:How To Speed Up Firefox

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 receives.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!

Thanks, have been using these edits for ages now, but for some reason a few were different so they're all fixed now

Craig.

Craig321 · Post by **Craig321** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 4:30 pm

mnosteele52 wrote:I have played and played with different settings to speed up Firefox and I have found Fasterfox actually slows things down. Try uninstalling Fasterfox then putting these settings in your user.js file:

user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", true)]
Do these actually make a noticable difference? I don't want to go applying them and making things bad.

//Edit
How come nglayout is at 750? Surely the lower the better??:
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.

Craig.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 4:39 pm

[quote="mnosteele52"]I have played and played with different settings to speed up Firefox and I have found Fasterfox actually slows things down. Try uninstalling Fasterfox then putting these settings in your user.js file:

user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", true)]

You can set most of that in FF

Faction · Post by **Faction** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:18 pm

feels like im on dialup with my 1.5 DSL connection. pages on firefox take forever to load and sometimes images dont load at all. it will say Wating for(insert web address here) for about 3 or 4 seconds then loads the page.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:27 pm

Faction wrote:feels like im on dialup with my 1.5 DSL connection. pages on firefox take forever to load and sometimes images dont load at all. it will say Wating for(insert web address here) for about 3 or 4 seconds then loads the page.

What changes did you make?