Speed up Mozilla Firefox

[NorCal 2500HD]

Speed up Mozilla Firefox about 3-30x Faster!!!

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 broadband connection you'll load pages 2-30 times faster now.

[slobin3d]

wont that ping the he!! out of the website youre trying to load?

[Shaun]

Yeah, but who cares, lol.

[Mello_Yello]

saw this over on rcdori quite sometime back.

[bobbo27]

Awesome, definitely faster.
Thanks!

[FrankyRizzo]

Holy crap your right.

Thanks

[robbo989]

WOW! Mozilla is a rocket!

[smokinubyrc]

dude loads way faster man thanks brian

[tmaxxking1]

Originally Posted by robbo989

WOW! Mozilla is a rocket!

x2

[SammyXp]

Thanks, man! I switched to Maxthon, but now I am back!

[badger]

Originally Posted by slobin3d

wont that ping the he!! out of the website youre trying to load?

It can actually be better for the web server and overall bandwidth used since it tries to pack as many http requests into one packet which reduces the number of packets that it would take to load a page compared if HTTP pipelining were not turned on.

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What is HTTP pipelining?

Normally, HTTP requests are issued sequentially, with the next request being issued only after the response to the current request has been completely received. Depending on network latencies and bandwidth limitations, this can result in a significant delay before the next request is seen by the server.

HTTP/1.1 allows multiple HTTP requests to be written out to a socket together without waiting for the corresponding responses. The requestor then waits for the responses to arrive in the order in which they were requested. The act of pipelining the requests can result in a dramatic improvement in page loading times, especially over high latency connections.

Pipelining can also dramatically reduce the number of TCP/IP packets. With a typical MSS (maximum segment size) in the range of 536 to 1460 bytes, it is possible to pack several HTTP requests into one TCP/IP packet. Reducing the number of packets required to load a page benefits the internet as a whole, as fewer packets naturally reduces the burden on IP routers and networks.

HTTP/1.1 conforming servers are required to support pipelining. This does not mean that servers are required to pipeline responses, but that they are required to not fail if a client chooses to pipeline requests. This obviously has the potential to introduce a new category of evangelism bugs, since no other popular web browsers implement pipelining.

[jason]

John I don't speak geek, but I did gather that you thought this was a good idea, so I did it.

If it's not please call me and let me know.

KTHXBYE

[FrankyRizzo]

Originally Posted by badger

It can actually be better for the web server and overall bandwidth used

Good to know.

[1BadJeepBruiser]

WHOA, I just got off the phone with badger a little while ago, he told me to get fire fox so I did, and then I did this upgrade (if you call it) and its fawkin cruises!!! SAWEET

[FrankyRizzo]

I have been a huge fan of Firefox from the beginning. Anything to keep less Microsoft crap on my computer.

[badger]

Originally Posted by FrankyRizzo

I have been a huge fan of Firefox from the beginning. Anything to keep less Microsoft crap on my computer.

Firefox does not prevent you from having IE on your computer since IE is so embedded into Windows it cannot be removed.

[FrankyRizzo]

Originally Posted by badger

Firefox does not prevent you from having IE on your computer since IE is so embedded into Windows it cannot be removed.

I deleted mine and I cannot seem to find it. I do understand what you are saying.

[bobbo27]

At the very least it lets you not use IE... That's the part I like. Plus the fact that I can change anything with FF, and with IE you can't even move icons around.

1BJB, get any extensions yet?

[Unimoger]

Thanks Brian, did it, do I need to restart for it to take effect? or is it instant?

[FrankyRizzo]

instant.