Speed up your FireFox

[st1M]

If you're not using Firefox, why not? In all honesty it is the best web browser out there now regardless of operating system. It's a sleek browser that is easily customisable and in light of the latter, I will show you all how to reduce loading times dramatically on a broadband internet connection, which most people these days have. Follow these simple tips and you can notice a huge difference too!

 

First off, load Firefox and type the following into the address bar:

 

about:config

Then, using the filter bar at the top, type the following:

 

network.http.pipelining

Two entities and values should be returned; network.http.pipelining and network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. Change the value fields of these two entities so they are as following:

 

network.http.pipelining = "true"

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = "30"

Note that the maxrequests can be changed to anything you want, 30 is a safe number but you can tweak that to suit yourselves. network.http.pipelining basically enables the queuing (or 'pipelining') of requests to the website(s) you are trying to load. Alone, this will speed up the requests, albeit not enough to be noticeable. The second preference, network.http.pipelining.maxrequests determines how many requests the browser makes to the site in one go. By default, Firefox has this set to 4 meaning that 4 pieces of data will be retrieved from the server simultaneously. The higher the number, the more data is requested and the more your broadband connection will be used.

 

Next, type the following into the filter bar:

 

network.http.proxy.pipelining

A single preference of the same name should be returned. Change the value field so that the value looks as follows:

 

network.http.proxy.pipelining = "true"

This preference works with the previous two, to make the process of pipelining more streamlined and universally workable on any kind of broadband connection to any site through a proxy server (even if you do not use a proxy server, this is useful and should be done).

 

Finally, right click anywhere in the white space and select New > Integer. In the dialogue box that appears, enter the following:

 

nglayout.initialpaint.delay

With the value 0. This is basically a setting for Firefox's local latency. The 0 value is a measurement of how long Firefox waits before it acts upon the information it has received from the server, so naturally setting it to anything above 0 is pretty stupid (unless you have a sufficient reason not to!).

 

Now restart Firefox and try loading a page that contains a lot of information, such as images or embedded sound/video. These are the pages where you will notice the most substantial differences!

 

glhf,

Theo.

Quelle: www.crossfire.nu

 

+ Video:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGYggczgyo8

 

 

Hab's gemacht, läuft alles super und etwas schneller hab ich den Verdacht.

Bearbeitet 3. Dezember 2009 von st1M