Apologies that this may not be the right forum, but many Mac/Firefox users may not see this otherwise. Wanted to share.
Ever since getting my new latest generation Mini, I've had a devil of a time with painfully slow loading pages and long waits. Finally fixed all that with some tips and tweaks that everyone might want to consider. All this did wonders for me:
1) Switch default DNS settings to OpenDNS:
https://www.opendns.com/start/
2) Turn off IPv6 in System Preferences:
Network, Advanced, TCPIP. Configure: IPv6=off
3) Disable IPv6 in Firefox:
about:config
network.dns.disableIPv6=true
4) Tune Firefox:
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Firefox-Load-Pages-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
2. 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.
3. Alter the entries as follows:
4. Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" by double-clicking it.
5. Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 8 by double-clicking it. This means it will make 8 requests at once. There is no point setting it higher then 8 as it is capped at 8 max. [The default value for this setting is 4]
6. 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.
7. If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!
Ever since getting my new latest generation Mini, I've had a devil of a time with painfully slow loading pages and long waits. Finally fixed all that with some tips and tweaks that everyone might want to consider. All this did wonders for me:
1) Switch default DNS settings to OpenDNS:
https://www.opendns.com/start/
2) Turn off IPv6 in System Preferences:
Network, Advanced, TCPIP. Configure: IPv6=off
3) Disable IPv6 in Firefox:
about:config
network.dns.disableIPv6=true
4) Tune Firefox:
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Firefox-Load-Pages-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
2. 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.
3. Alter the entries as follows:
4. Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" by double-clicking it.
5. Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 8 by double-clicking it. This means it will make 8 requests at once. There is no point setting it higher then 8 as it is capped at 8 max. [The default value for this setting is 4]
6. 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.
7. If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!
