Speed up FireFox

Post by **ccb056** » February 13th, 2004, 11:40 pm

1. Type "about:config" in the adress field.
2. Set the value of network.http.pipelining to "true".
3. Set the value of network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to "100".
4. Set the value of network.http.proxy.pipelining to "true"
5. Set the value of nglayout.initialpaint.delay to "0"

Now watch as the loading times that already beat IE's go into overkill mode.

Post by **ccb056** » May 2nd, 2004, 2:37 pm

NOTE: I changed network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 200 and it seems to download pages even faster, I don't know what the side effects of increasing it are though

monte84 · Post by **monte84** » June 3rd, 2004, 6:43 am

have you tried this with any version of mozilla? Although i cannot notice a difference because i am bound to the constrants of 56k

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » June 3rd, 2004, 4:06 pm

eww 56k.. Come on, atleast get ADSL

monte84 · Post by **monte84** » June 3rd, 2004, 5:30 pm

Neo-Tebow2000 wrote:eww 56k.. Come on, atleast get ADSL

Trust me, if it were possible, I would. But it can't, it is not offered out in the sticks (where i live). We can't even get cable (T.V) . Satellite is too expensive and we dont get s strong signal (too many trees).

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » June 3rd, 2004, 6:07 pm

AH man, I feel sorry for you!!!! Move to the city

monte84 · Post by **monte84** » June 3rd, 2004, 6:26 pm

City, heh, if yo can call it that. LOL. Its not my call, i still live with the parents

Smartweb · Post by **Smartweb** » June 3rd, 2004, 8:40 pm

Wait for cell phone towers to be replaced with Internet towers. Then you can get decent bandwidth.

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » June 4th, 2004, 12:31 am

Wouldnt that be sweet

Post by **ccb056** » June 4th, 2004, 12:47 am

Smartweb wrote:Wait for cell phone towers to be replaced with Internet towers. Then you can get decent bandwidth.

yes, you would get good bandwidth, but your ping would be through the roof

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » June 4th, 2004, 12:55 am

Wireless is half as fast as ethernet

j3pflynn · Post by **j3pflynn** » June 16th, 2004, 11:55 am

ccb056 wrote: 4. Set the value of network.http.proxy.pipelining to "true"

Does this value need to be changed if you're not using a proxy?

ninjastyle · Post by **ninjastyle** » June 16th, 2004, 2:48 pm

The line "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" does not exist, this string has to be created manually. What I would like to know, is what "type" it is -- Integer, Boolean, or String.

Thanks for the speedup tips!

EDIT: It's OK, I found out I need to use Integer.

Can anyone tell me how to delete an entry though?

Post by **ccb056** » June 19th, 2004, 9:48 pm

yes, use that even if you are not behind a proxy

to delete entries, just try highlighting and press the delete key

peter the piper · Post by **peter the piper** » July 20th, 2004, 10:23 pm

The nglayoutinitialpaint.delay sits just above the nglayout.widget.mode in version 0.9.2, at least it is in mine.
The changes made my copy load about twice as fast. Great tip. Thanks.

peter the piper · Post by **peter the piper** » July 25th, 2004, 8:43 am

I was told about the following http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 15&start=0 on the firefox forum. Some of the settings may be of help, some have already been posted on this thread.

Lord Tom · Post by **Lord Tom** » August 7th, 2004, 12:19 am

most important: speed on firefox

bren b · Post by **bren b** » August 7th, 2004, 1:45 pm

ninjastyle wrote:The line "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" does not exist, this string has to be created manually. What I would like to know, is what "type" it is -- Integer, Boolean, or String.

Thanks for the speedup tips!

EDIT: It's OK, I found out I need to use Integer.

Can anyone tell me how to delete an entry though?

how do i create a string manually?

ninjastyle · Post by **ninjastyle** » November 20th, 2004, 6:40 am

I'm really sorry this is so late... I lost the forum URL ages ago.

Anywayz, to create a new string, just right-click any of the other strings and select "new".

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » November 20th, 2004, 6:43 am

lol.. how could you.. It couldn't be any more simple!!!

Welcome Back!!

AmaD · Post by **AmaD** » November 21st, 2004, 5:40 pm

Do you guys mind if I put this on another forum, I'm sure they'd benefit from it

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » November 21st, 2004, 6:00 pm

go ahead, just link us to it

kieranmullen · Post by **kieranmullen** » December 22nd, 2004, 9:24 pm

Possible downside of having this... I have tried downloading files using this tweak and on a number of sites I got the " Could not download. To many connections from your address" also some servers might treat it as a DOS attack. I mean 100 connections for the same file in a atter of seconds frm the same ip comon? Thats a bit silly for 1 webpage which usually load quite fast anyway if you have a fast PC and are on broadband. You are jumping from 4 connections to 100, I would think the max you would want to go is 25. Try 25 and see if it really makes a difference.

unsafe · Post by **unsafe** » December 30th, 2004, 2:00 am

I can not seam to find nglayout.initialpaint.delay anywhere, iv downlaodet firefox here; http://mozilla.org, why is it, i cant fint that nglayout.initialpaint.delay?

AmaD · Post by **AmaD** » December 30th, 2004, 12:40 pm

unsafe wrote:I can not seam to find nglayout.initialpaint.delay anywhere, iv downlaodet firefox here; http://mozilla.org, why is it, i cant fint that nglayout.initialpaint.delay?

The line "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" does not exist, this string has to be created manually. It is an interger.l

Post by **ccb056** » December 30th, 2004, 5:06 pm

It used to exist in older versions, and they have taken it out recently for reasons beyond me

ThManDan22 · Post by **ThManDan22** » December 31st, 2004, 5:49 am

Could they have taken it out becuase it would be at 0 if it was not in there and they figured that most people would want no delay???? maybe just maybe
AND,
Thank You, for the info. This seems to speed up web loads a little bit, but i have to ask. Why didnt they just make these defualts, If it speed it up SPEED = GOOD
Internet Explorer = BAD ; FireFox=GOOD

AmaD · Post by **AmaD** » December 31st, 2004, 11:02 am

I'm using Firefox 1.0 and they're there all right, look:

unsafe · Post by **unsafe** » January 1st, 2005, 4:31 pm

And how do i do that, do i even have to do that?

ThManDan22 · Post by **ThManDan22** » January 2nd, 2005, 7:41 am

about:config

indogo · Post by **indogo** » February 13th, 2005, 11:43 am

Has anyone tried removing unused codepages and would this speed things up at all! I did this for windows and it felt better if nothing else.

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