Speed Up Firefox!

Published on December 31, 2004 By coffeegrinder In Internet

On broadband and using Firefox, looking for more speed?
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Comments (Page 1)

Erk.

on Dec 31, 2004

Whoa!!

what a speed increase ...blistering!

Thanks for the tip. Appreciate it

Sleeping Dragon

on Dec 31, 2004

I really want to make the switch but did not because of
A: Speed and
2: No Tiggz or Danilo skin aps.

I didn't try it, but I assume this takes care of the speed. One more issue to go.

Thomas Thomassen

on Dec 31, 2004

Interesting... Will try when I get back to England. ...and for the internett to get connected again... we ordered a 2Mbit line...

CygnusXII

on Dec 31, 2004

Yup that Tip got Insto-Memorized, Here. Thank You...Works like a darned, Champ.

Alternate Setting

on Dec 31, 2004

Hi guys - I played with this some months ago, mainly as I was suffering quite alot from timing out problems with an earlier build. I reset it again as it wasn't the answer for me at the time and can cause problems of its own on some sites. -

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#oth_pipelining

This is the link from Mozilla's Hints & Tips page re pipelining. If I remember correctly Opera has pipelining enabled by default.

There is also an extension called Pref Buttons which amongst other options allows the placing of pipelining into the toolbar so that it can be switched off when you try to access a site that isn't set up to deal. I have tested that it can be installed on Firefox 1.0 but I haven't field tested it for function or investigated the setting changes in the config file yet. If you are interested here's a link:-

http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=86

Once installed you simply add the option to the toolbar through the usual toolbar 'customize' route.

Additional: Have since looked at the config change - it simply changes the network http pipelining from false to true - it doesn't alter the max requests from the default setting of 4 or the proxy.pipelining value from false to true.

MDAW2254

on Dec 31, 2004

Oh, my gosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I set my homepage to WinCustomize, and normally, it takes more then 3 minutes to load the page fully, and after I configured it, I took, like around 30 seconds!!! Thanks!!!

tjesterb

on Dec 31, 2004

Thanks for the tip, Coffeegrinder.

That speeds things up noticably.
You can also speed up your browsing (regardless of connection) using Cablenut, and some other registry tweaks at: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1722550,00.asp

werewolf

on Dec 31, 2004

Good Grief!! The difference is amazing. I went to a site that usually takes forever to load, even on broadband, and it popped up just like a blink of an eye kind of thing. Thanks for the tip.

dan.wright

on Dec 31, 2004

excellent! a big

for the tip coffeegrinder

WebGizmos

on Jan 01, 2005

Cool...I like tweaks!

lilstarfish

on Jan 01, 2005

Wow!

Very nice!

Many thanks for this most handy tweak, it works perfectly! =D

Happy New speedy Year!

BlueDev

on Jan 01, 2005

Great tweaks. Both the Firefox ones and the Cablenut ones. Things are so fast right now. Amazing. Thanks so much.

Fuzzy Logic

on Jan 01, 2005

Nice. This page loaded in under 3 seconds...

Alternate Setting

on Jan 01, 2005

I'm not totally sure about the max requests being 30 (I've even seen this set at 100). From what little reading I've done - some state that 8 is as much as is can be usefully tweaked or even worked by Firefox (this tweak is also available for IE by the way which I understand also has a default value of 4) and many say that there is a reason that 4 is the default setting and consider those who max it up to be less than Community minded (not a dig at anyone here - just useful to know if you spread this tip off site

)

I am far from technically informed - but it seems that having a site which has a lot of browsers making unncessarily high multiple requests may in fact, ultimately slow it down for everyone and that depending on the way a site is configured may even result in your IP being banned.

It might be interesting to hear from those who manage the servers here as to their thoughts.

Not to put a downer on what is a much quoted and oft valued tip from Coffeegrinder - just to put a little perspective and some additional thought into it - you don't have to raise the max requests to enable the pipelining value to be changed from false to true.

P.S. I could provide some links to forums where this has been discussed - but one of the most informative threads became so heated it would not be allowed on a family site - it's amazing how intense a discussion about this tip can get.

Alternate Setting

on Jan 03, 2005

Ref: network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 30

I think this is the relevent reference/hard coding as to why the value is pointless above 8.

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/netwerk/protocol/http/src/nsHttp.h#96

Perhaps someone with better grounding in this than I, could check out if this is the relevant info - and if it is still valid.

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