Quick and free Firefox speed boost

Inkara1

Inkara1

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Got Firefox? Got broadband? Try this little trick to get a speed boost. I tried it and pages do seem a small bit snappier. I'd say no money and two minutes of my time to get a small speed boost is a good deal.
 
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Works great!!!
 
I did that a few days ago, and it's working great so far. Makes you wonder why it isn't enabled by default.
 
Opps. I guess I should have posted that stuff way back when it was first figured out. My bad.
 
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.
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That's actually the part that makes you feel it is loading faster. I applied the other changes but left this one out and there was no perceivable (sp??) difference.
 
As long as we're on the topic of broadband speed, here's a great app to speed up your broadband connection. It's free and requires no installation.
Gives me a 20%+ boost over default settings.

TCPOptimizer
 
Maxmtu, latency ACKs, TTl etc. Most change the same options but this one is nice because it's a:small, b:free and c:requires no installation. It also optimizes for cable, dsl, PPPoE dialup and extreme settings recognizing that there are differences between broadband connections.
 
Raven said:
Apologies to Sam for making my browser hit OTC 45 times for each page :S
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Apparently, anything above 8 is useless, as it is the maximum allowed according to the protocol's spec.
 
it worked for me, but here a link thats in that link to the original....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts

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.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!



I was also reading somewhere (I don't remember where now.. I restarted Firefox to
check out the above changes) that you shouldn't make the last "nglayout" change on
OSX for some reason. But give it a try-- you'll like it! Of course this also increases the
load on a given webserver as it gets more simultaneous requests per browser, but I'd
say that the the speed improvement is worth it.
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