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offline plaster from splitska 10 on 2005-03-25 06:00 [#01543475]
Points: 4173 Status: Regular



a few tips how to fasten up your fox,which won't work if
you are connecting over a modem.

- open firefox and in the adsress bar write about:config

after that do the following:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
browser.turbo.enabled
network.dns.disableIPv6

then:

Set network.http.pipelining to True

Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to True

Pipelining sets the browser to make multiple requests to a
web page at one time.

Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 20

This is the maximum number of requests to make to the web
page at a time.

Set browser.turbo.enabled to True

Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to True

now right click in any field and add New, Integer. enter the
name "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and a value of 0

the last thing determines how much time firexf will wait
untill it starts to process incoming data.

Cache Size Tweak

Firefox 1.0 is defaulted to use 51MB of your RAM cache which
really is quite a lot if you are running other applicatins
at the same time. This tweak allows you to set the maximum
size cache that Firefox uses. Please note that this does not
directley make Firefox faster but it can speed up your
computer in general.

In the about:config screen create a new integer value and
name it...

"browser.cache.memory.capacity"

Set its value to the maximum size of the cache you want
Firefox to use in Kilobytes. I set mine to 20000 to use 20MB
of cache. Restart Firefox for the changes to take affect.

Speed Up Loading Of Firefox In XP

In Windows XP you can speed up the loading of programs by
making it one of the programs that XP "Prefetches".
Prefetching works by letting XP have portions of a program
already loaded to your hard drive. To do this for Firefox,
find the Start Menu entry for Firefox and right click it,
then select properties. In the 'Target' box add the
following line at the end of the file path.

/Prefetch:1

Your Target box should now look something

 

offline plaster from splitska 10 on 2005-03-25 06:00 [#01543476]
Points: 4173 Status: Regular



like this.

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" /Prefetch:1

 

offline epohs from )C: on 2005-03-25 06:30 [#01543490]
Points: 17620 Status: Lurker



just FWIW, setting
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to just
anything higher than 4 can cause errors on some pages.

most notably on maps.google.com. it can cause some of the
map squares to not load.


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2005-03-25 06:33 [#01543496]
Points: 17620 Status: Lurker | Followup to epohs: #01543490



It's because of how google (intelligently) configures their
servers, not a bug in firefox.


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-25 07:29 [#01543522]
Points: 26326 Status: Lurker | Followup to epohs: #01543496 | Show recordbag



Good call there :)

I've turned off some of these tweaks as they can cause some
instability in firefox. Depends on your net connection more.


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2005-03-25 07:47 [#01543537]
Points: 17620 Status: Lurker



yeah, i turned off the pipelining tweak a while back too.

i think it helped back when i was on dialup, but
honestly, the only connections i use nowadays are either
fiber or fast DSL, and i couldn't even tell if my
performance was affected when i turned pipelining back off.


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2005-03-25 08:46 [#01543565]
Points: 12878 Status: Addict



there was an article on this on kuro5hin.org a few days
ago.

i suggest people check that out for a complete mofoin guide

 

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