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Wanna make firefox faster?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Mooch, Jan 1, 2005.

  1. Mooch

    Mooch Member

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    tried it and it works

    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. Double clik to change to true

    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!
     
  2. aeroman10

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    Hehe, I saw this post on another forum today..Tried it and it does work..pretty cool.
     
  3. KaiSeR SoZe

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    #3 KaiSeR SoZe, Jan 1, 2005
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  4. swilkins

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    Cool

    Thanks
     
  5. arkoe

    arkoe (ง'̀-'́)ง

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    No problem here. And it does seem faster.
     
  6. Stack24

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    Just did it as well...very noticeable.
     
  7. 3814

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    works great.
     
  8. weakfromtoday

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    Mooch, that's awesome. Thanks!
     
  9. FlyerFanatic

    FlyerFanatic YOU BOYS LIKE MEXICO!?! YEEEHAAWW
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    Man thats awesome thanks
     
  10. isoman2kx

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    damn, it is a bit faster

    thanks mooch!
     
  11. count_dough-ku

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    Nice! That's a lot faster. I just installed Firefox the other day and had already sworn off IE for good, but this just makes it even easier to never go back.
     
  12. esse

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    OMG, I think this works!

    thanks!
     
  13. Uprising

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    WOW thanks. Just tried this.
     
  14. m_cable

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    Hmm. It doesn't seem any faster for me. Oh well.
     
  15. Rockets2K

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    I definitely see a difference....thanks for the headsup...
     
  16. pasox2

    pasox2 Member
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    Its definately faster, but I had some problems on ebay. Missing buttons, long autofill wait, non-renders.

    Cool overall.
     
  17. arkoe

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    I have had similar problems with Firefox overall. It just doesn't load everything IE will.
     
  18. JeeberD

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    Wow, works great! Thanks!
     

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