firefox tweak

[chr0nik_sm0k3]

after watching one of my new favorite online shows www.dl.tv they were discussing a tweak to make firefox faster ... however, they did this by just disable images from loading. cool if you are on 56k, and want to only load certain images. however ive been using this tweak for awhile now, and this will make your firefox much much 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

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 receives.

This way make your firefox greatly increase load speeds on pages that are image heavy. I wouldnt do this on dial up, and probably wouldnt use 30 on dsl, maybe 15. If you are on a 15mbps down FiOS goto 60 or even 90. Enjoy ;]

[projekt_s13]

just did it and yep it sped up zilvia for me, i set my network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 20. Thanks

[Flipzide]

i just tried it. image galleries on websites seem to load faster. it also seems faster on traffic heavy websites such as myspace.

[k0uki]

nice, very noticable difference

[ALTRNTV]

Thanks! +rep

[chibo]

Good tips but it places a much higher load on servers... not exactly the nicest thing to be recommending to everyone, not to say it's your fault, I mean as publicly as TV :)

[WILDACEX187]

awsomeness :bow:

[fromxtor]

Thanks just did this and it makes it quite a bit faster.

[Ninjabread]

Very impressed. Does anyone know how to set firefox as default browser for hotmail? I get all my forum updates from there and I hate IE but it opens them up in internet exploder.

[JewGal]

very noticable difference

[wheresthaboost?]

nice find bro :bigok: +rep

[180sx Fan]

wow this really does work very good find +rep

[Ruby240]

If you setup the browser correctly when you first downloaded FireFox or have done an update with Mozilla in the past month, you won't even need to do any of this as it has already been done.