Speed up Firefox!

[poppa]

For those that haven't tried it yet, here is a possible Firefox catalyst for webpage loading:

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.

[DavidY]

Thanks for the speed tweaks....definately faster on my computer. Was getting sick of the timeouts that was occuring periodically.

Dave

[felix]

hmm .. it crashed when I tried to toggle the first value a second time. Opened and tried it again and still the same.

So what's the down side to doing the tweak? Less compatibility?