Firefox users -- Neat "hack" to make it faster!

[Relly]

My friend taught me this little trick and I told him to post it on the forums he's a member for. So I quoted him and sharing this neat trick with you guys, since I love you

I'm on a fast broadband connection... and I noticed my pages loading more than 20 times faster.. especially images. At default firefox comes with a delay.. you can change that.

I hope this isn't an old trick everyone already knows.

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Originally Posted by Tarannon

here's a nice little trick...

1. open firefox and in the address bar type about:config

2. find network.http.pipelining & network.http.proxy.pipelining and set them to "true" by double clicking on them

3. find network.http.pipelining.maxrequests double click on it and change it from 4 to 100

4. right-click anywhere and select new-> integer...in the alert box type 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


and now you should notice a considerable speed increase...enjoi!!

Internet Explorer FTL

[akabaloo]

Is this only for Firefox, or does it affect the network also? I'm at work, and the internet gets bogged down sometimes

[Relly]

No, this is only for Firefox. It tweaks the web browsing.

If you want to tweak your internet connection.. that's a separate issue. You'd have to make some registry value changes and maybe download a 3rd party program which helps also.

I'm very good with that. I used to be an admin at SpeedGuide.net :: Your Guide to Broadband

check their forums out and ask there.. but I don't know if you'll get in trouble for tweaking your connection at work..

[akabaloo]

Well, me cant really tell here, but remind me to do this when i get home!

[Craig]

Doesn't the Faster Fox plugin do this?

[akabaloo]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Craig

Doesn't the Faster Fox plugin do this?

I were reading about it and what it does is increase the "server load" or something like that.

[VincentVega]

it also hammers the hell out of the sites you browse. but these days it's not really a concern. sR is a shared server, as everyone knows. IN the morning you'll time out because it's too busy. so you might have 20 users with 5 connections (default). Metric of 100. you increase that to 50, all of a sudden you're down to 2 users surfing before everyone else starts getting timeouts. So be careful what you guys recommend to everyone

[Relly]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Craig

Doesn't the Faster Fox plugin do this?

No, I did this trick over that plug-in.
Noticed a big speed increase

[basso4735]

relly's obsessed with hacking. fact.

[Dukefrukem]

at least this isn't about "Faster fox"