FireFox Tip: ATTN Broadband Users.

[eleveneastgate]

How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity)

Posted on 12/12/2004 12:45:50 PM PST by KoRn

Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

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 MUCH faster now!

Can be found here

 

[williamsonrg]

I tried that on my PC, and it seemed like not all the pictures were loading, so I changed it back... maybe I did something wrong.

 

[eleveneastgate]

Sorry to hear that... I didn't have a problem, Hmmm?

I'm using:

12" iBook G3 900 Mhz

YahooSbcDSL - Internet Provider.

Maybe try again?!

 

[edesignuk]

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/103040/

Some may have missed it that time round though...carry on

 

[iBunny]

For some reason even with this mod, I feel that Firefox is slower than safari... does anyone else agree with me?

 

[1macker1]

why use ff over safari.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/103040/

Some may have missed it that time round though...carry on

lol@mod mini **that's all i wanted to say, but i didnt want to get off topic**