How To 'Tweak' Firfox

[Zahreah]

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 recieves.

 

[Toxique]

Thanks Voi, I use Firefox as my main browser so this will help me a lot. I will try this out and tell you how it goes.

 

[Electric Shock]

Little improvement in performance. Thanks Voi.

 

[Naiwen]

I'd apologize, but I'm afraid I wouldn't Sir! I do mind it this way!

 

[Toxique]

Voi is this suppose to pop-up?

 

[JPB]

Yes it is.

@Voi I allready have a fast connection, so I don't notice much difference. But thanks, it really works