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Speed up FireFox

Posted: February 13th, 2004, 11:40 pm
by ccb056
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.

Posted: May 2nd, 2004, 2:37 pm
by ccb056
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

Posted: June 3rd, 2004, 6:43 am
by monte84
have you tried this with any version of mozilla? Although i cannot notice a difference because i am bound to the constrants of 56k :|

Posted: June 3rd, 2004, 4:06 pm
by Tebow2000
eww 56k.. Come on, atleast get ADSL

Posted: June 3rd, 2004, 5:30 pm
by monte84
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). :(

Posted: June 3rd, 2004, 6:07 pm
by Tebow2000
AH man, I feel sorry for you!!!! Move to the city ;)

Posted: June 3rd, 2004, 6:26 pm
by monte84
City, heh, if yo can call it that. LOL. Its not my call, i still live with the parents :|

Posted: June 3rd, 2004, 8:40 pm
by Smartweb
Wait for cell phone towers to be replaced with Internet towers. Then you can get decent bandwidth.

Posted: June 4th, 2004, 12:31 am
by Tebow2000
Wouldnt that be sweet

Posted: June 4th, 2004, 12:47 am
by ccb056
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

Posted: June 4th, 2004, 12:55 am
by Tebow2000
Wireless is half as fast as ethernet

Re: Speed up FireFox

Posted: June 16th, 2004, 11:55 am
by j3pflynn
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?

Posted: June 16th, 2004, 2:48 pm
by ninjastyle
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?

Posted: June 19th, 2004, 9:48 pm
by ccb056
yes, use that even if you are not behind a proxy

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

firefox

Posted: July 20th, 2004, 10:23 pm
by peter the piper
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. :lol:

Speed up Firefox.

Posted: July 25th, 2004, 8:43 am
by peter the piper
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.

Posted: August 7th, 2004, 12:19 am
by Lord Tom
most important: speed on firefox

Posted: August 7th, 2004, 1:45 pm
by bren b
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?

Posted: November 20th, 2004, 6:40 am
by ninjastyle
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".

:)

Posted: November 20th, 2004, 6:43 am
by Tebow2000
lol.. how could you.. It couldn't be any more simple!!! :lol:

Welcome Back!!

Posted: November 21st, 2004, 5:40 pm
by AmaD
Do you guys mind if I put this on another forum, I'm sure they'd benefit from it :D

Posted: November 21st, 2004, 6:00 pm
by Tebow2000
go ahead, just link us to it

Possible Downside...

Posted: December 22nd, 2004, 9:24 pm
by kieranmullen
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.

Re: Speed up FireFox

Posted: December 30th, 2004, 2:00 am
by unsafe
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?

Re: Speed up FireFox

Posted: December 30th, 2004, 12:40 pm
by AmaD
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

Posted: December 30th, 2004, 5:06 pm
by ccb056
It used to exist in older versions, and they have taken it out recently for reasons beyond me

Thanks

Posted: December 31st, 2004, 5:49 am
by ThManDan22
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

Posted: December 31st, 2004, 11:02 am
by AmaD
I'm using Firefox 1.0 and they're there all right, look:

Image

Posted: January 1st, 2005, 4:31 pm
by unsafe
And how do i do that, do i even have to do that?

Posted: January 2nd, 2005, 7:41 am
by ThManDan22
about:config

Posted: February 13th, 2005, 11:43 am
by indogo
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.