1. This Board Rocks has been moved to a new domain: CarolinaPanthersForum.com

    All member accounts remain the same.

    Most of the content is here, as well. Except that the Preps Forum has been split off to its own board at: http://www.prepsforum.com

    Welcome to the new Carolina Panthers Forum!

    Dismiss Notice

Making Firefox faster

Discussion in 'Technology Forum' started by Savio, Feb 14, 2005.

Page 1 of 4
  1. Feb 14, 2005 at 10:55 PM #1
    Savio

    Savio Freelance Pimp

    Age:
    46
    Posts:
    8,221
    Likes Received:
    0
    Joined:
    Jan 7, 2003
    Location:
    Redondo Beach
    HTTP pipelining

    1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit enter. 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 in Firefox it will make several request at once. It will really speeds up web page loading.

    2. Edit the following entries as shown:

    Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
    Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
    Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 25 or 30. This means it will make 25 or 30 requests at once (whichever you picked).

    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.
     
  2. Feb 15, 2005 at 2:15 AM #2
    KrackMonkey

    KrackMonkey Got a light?

    Age:
    48
    Posts:
    3,356
    Likes Received:
    0
    Joined:
    Oct 12, 2004
    Location:
    Culver City, CA
    did it.

    noticed some faster load times.

    Ive wanted to empty all cookies and temp innanet shitz and then test it. I'll do that tomorrow and see how it does.
     
  3. Feb 15, 2005 at 6:58 AM #3
    Playa

    Playa The coach is a near

    Age:
    46
    Posts:
    14,546
    Likes Received:
    220
    Joined:
    Jan 9, 2004
    Location:
    Crackerville
    I've found it's important to type this in just as Savio has said. It did not work for me until I changed "true dat" to "true"
     
  4. Feb 15, 2005 at 9:20 AM #4
    The Brain

    The Brain Defiler of Cornflakes

    Posts:
    32,125
    Likes Received:
    1
    Joined:
    Jan 8, 2003
    Location:
    Over There ---->
    Nice find Savio
     
  5. Feb 15, 2005 at 9:46 AM #5
    Science

    Science Puerto Rican of the Sea

    Age:
    56
    Posts:
    3,802
    Likes Received:
    0
    Joined:
    Jan 21, 2003
    Location:
    Charlotte, NC
    That does make a difference. Makes you wonder why Firefox doesn't just come with those tweaks in place.
     
  6. Feb 15, 2005 at 9:52 AM #6
    Savio

    Savio Freelance Pimp

    Age:
    46
    Posts:
    8,221
    Likes Received:
    0
    Joined:
    Jan 7, 2003
    Location:
    Redondo Beach
    Well,

    It's bad cause you are huggin the resource of the website. Might be good for you but you are ruin for the others and create headache for the website owner but what do I care right? :xyzthumbs
     
  7. Feb 15, 2005 at 8:14 PM #7
    magnus

    magnus Chump-proof

    Posts:
    53,697
    Likes Received:
    2
    Joined:
    Feb 5, 2002
    Location:
    anywhere I lay my head I'm gonna call my home
    works much better. I can especially notice it at a site like TBR where normally it has to load each individual graphic slowly, which in the reply screen can be a bitch.

    Set mine to 20, to not be a total whore.

    Thanks sav.
    FWIW, Firefox' new install after I installed XP (and used less extensions) was about as fast as IE. Now it's probably faster.
     
  8. Feb 15, 2005 at 8:37 PM #8
    mathmajors

    mathmajors Roll Wave

    Age:
    55
    Posts:
    42,103
    Likes Received:
    0
    Joined:
    Jan 8, 2003
    Looks faster on initial tries, but I'll have to keep using it a bit. Pretty cool config.
     
  9. Feb 17, 2005 at 9:19 AM #9
    Savio

    Savio Freelance Pimp

    Age:
    46
    Posts:
    8,221
    Likes Received:
    0
    Joined:
    Jan 7, 2003
    Location:
    Redondo Beach
    you may want to check this out also

    M3
    M3 builds are highly optimized builds that also contain code optimized for the SSE2 instruction set. Given the nature of M3 builds, they are designed only for the following processors:

    * AMD Opteron
    * AMD Athlon FX
    * AMD Athlon 64
    * AMD Sempron (3100+)
    * Intel Xeon
    * Intel Pentium M
    * Intel Pentium 4
    * Intel Celeron D
    * Intel Celeron (1.7GHz - 2.8GHz)


    http://moox.ws/tech/mozilla/firefox.htm
     
  10. Feb 17, 2005 at 9:45 AM #10
    Thelt

    Thelt Full Access Member

    Age:
    54
    Posts:
    29,797
    Likes Received:
    0
    Joined:
    Jan 11, 2003
    Location:
    To the right
    It seemed to make mine a good bit faster.
     
Page 1 of 4

Share This Page