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Kinetix
05-14-2005, 03:29 PM
Here's a few ways to add a 200% speed boost (at least) to Firefox, tested and true:

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.

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And here's a more indepth guide:

http://workingbath.com/archives/2005/01/04/firefox-speed-tweak/
sheld0n
05-14-2005, 05:00 PM
holy guacamole~`!
ive gotta try this out. internet can never be too fast! :cool:
Xielos
05-14-2005, 05:52 PM
Wrong.

Doing this increases the amount of requests you send to every page you view, meaning that you can effectivly crash a server by spamming the bandwith. Sure its faster for you, but it screws everyone else. Besides, I thinmk feature is capped at 8 anyways.
sheld0n
05-14-2005, 05:59 PM
Wrong.

Doing this increases the amount of requests you send to every page you view, meaning that you can effectivly crash a server by spamming the bandwith. Sure its faster for you, but it screws everyone else. Besides, I thinmk feature is capped at 8 anyways.

Ah, well. That explains why its not set on by default.
Kinetix
05-14-2005, 06:43 PM
Ah well, I've never seemed to crash a website and have noticed a freat increase in speed.
Tarkenchi
05-14-2005, 06:46 PM
guru was down most of the day yesterday for me, were you doin that? :mad:
8 Ball
05-15-2005, 08:42 PM
Wow..that did work fairly well, thanks Kin (I set the max to 10 and even then it worked really well).
WingedAvenger
05-15-2005, 10:26 PM
Speaking of Firefox, if you haven't gotten the security update yet, you might want to.

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/10/102510.php