Misc: Speed up Mozilla Firefox about 3-30x Faster

stratoskater · Post by **stratoskater** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:19 pm

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 2-30 times faster now.

For more tutorials like this go to http://programmersplace.tk

Waverunner · Post by **Waverunner** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 8:13 am

HOLY CRAP! I LOVE YOU! lol

Whoa, I had my doubts, but this actually works lmfao!

Ill let you guys know if my computer explodes or anything lol

Katarn · Post by **Katarn** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 8:23 am

i did it, i reallly don't notice a difference, i hate dsl, i used to have cable

Waverunner · Post by **Waverunner** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 8:46 am

Katarn wrote:i did it, i reallly don't notice a difference, i hate dsl, i used to have cable

Why did you get rid of it? Jesus I love you! It takes no time to load a page now!!!!!

Katarn · Post by **Katarn** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 8:58 am

because the grade of cable i had (faster than t3) was $100 or so a month.

RaVNzCRoFT · Post by **RaVNzCRoFT** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:32 am

I can't tell if Firefox is faster, my connection is already faster than t3 also lol.

Ghetto Green · Post by **Ghetto Green** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:33 am

Wow! Please make this a stickie.

kaptainkommie · Post by **kaptainkommie** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:18 am

Great find. Tested and works with the Linux distribution of Firefox in addition to the Windows distro.

stratoskater · Post by **stratoskater** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:03 am

wow! my very own two stickies

kaptainkommie wrote:Great find. Tested and works with the Linux distribution of Firefox in addition to the Windows distro.

WTF, i did not find this, i figured this out myself.

jks · Post by **jks** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:30 pm

I have charter and it runs supafast... Im trying it now... do I have to quit firefox to make it work? I havent really noticed a difference yet.

stratoskater · Post by **stratoskater** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:43 am

not sure, try restarting firefox

Sentinel · Post by **Sentinel** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:39 pm

This actually slowed the hell out of mine. Ironic mb?

Waverunner · Post by **Waverunner** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:15 pm

Sentinel wrote:This actually slowed the hell out of mine. Ironic mb?

Well, after thinking about it, I changed the pipelining of 30 to about 400. This actually slowed down my computer, because I think it had to send out more requests to the site. Try lower numbers mb.

Phenomena · Post by **Phenomena** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 2:19 pm

meh ive known this for awhile

Waverunner · Post by **Waverunner** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:05 pm

If you know something, tell us! lol

Any other secret information you have?

stratoskater · Post by **stratoskater** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:13 pm

keep the pipelining at 30

stratoskater · Post by **stratoskater** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:51 am

Waverunner wrote:If you know something, tell us! lol

Any other secret information you have?

are you talking about me?

AbeFroman · Post by **AbeFroman** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 1:13 pm

it didnt work...

Waverunner · Post by **Waverunner** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 2:39 pm

stratoskater wrote:
Waverunner wrote:If you know something, tell us! lol

Any other secret information you have?
are you talking about me?

no, phenomena

Phenomena · Post by **Phenomena** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 11:53 am

well i have plenty of secret plugins i have never mentioned before (excpet on the zmt site)