firefox broadband speed ++

[enstg8er]

i came across this and it claims to speed up page loading. won't work for me but it may work for someone else....

Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

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!

http://forevergeek.com/
good luck.

[BJ_M]

about:config is interisting -- thanks (note: can really screw up browser)

[Soopafresh]

Worked for me. Made a BIG difference.

[BJ_M]

i meant changing other settings there

[hudsonf]

Try "Tweak Network Settings" at http://www.bitstorm.org/extensions/ and check out these 2 links.
1 http://forum.osnn.net/showthread.php?t=44788
2 http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=243907

[Garibaldi]

worked for me too, its faster!

[banger298]

seems to work for me to a lot faster

[Faustus]

Remember if you make a ton of request at a time the server may ignore you and admins will hate you.

[enstg8er]

Remember if you make a ton of request at a time the server may ignore you and admins will hate you.

what does this mean. i don't really know what my first post meant, it just came recommended from a trusted source and i passed it along. i don't have broadband so i can't even try it

[Dr. DOS]

Hard to tell on a T3 line... will try tonite on DSL....

[HatchetMan]

Try "Tweak Network Settings" at http://www.bitstorm.org/extensions/ and check out these 2 links.
1 http://forum.osnn.net/showthread.php?t=44788
2 http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=243907

I went with that 3rd link and wow!!!

[Faustus]

Hard to tell on a T3 line... will try tonite on DSL....

What I mean is one of those settings basicly makes your browser bombard the server with connection request if I'm reading right.

[enstg8er]

What I mean is one of those settings basicly makes your browser bombard the server with connection request if I'm reading right.

you're probably right. you know a hell of a lot more about this stuff than me. here is the mozilla explaination......
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/pipelining-faq.html