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Old 19 Jan 2005, 05:11 AM   #1
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Speed Up Firefox!

If you don't have FireFox yet get it here!


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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.

browser.turbo.enabled True

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

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Old 19 Jan 2005, 06:06 AM   #2
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I did that already awhile ago.

It works too. It's no trick
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Old 19 Jan 2005, 06:37 AM   #3
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Re: Speed Up Firefox!

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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.
I saw on a website (I dont remember which) that this could actually slow down browsing . Basically, it will load one thing at a time instead of loading everything at once, which uses more CPU. I have had this option turned on for awhile so I turned it off and tried it out. For me it actually slowed down browsing . So use at your own risk.

All the other options are fine as far as I know.
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Old 19 Jan 2005, 07:55 AM   #4
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It's speeds mine up so I guess people will have to try it both ways
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Old 19 Jan 2005, 10:34 AM   #5
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Re: Re: Speed Up Firefox!

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Originally posted by sparky752
I saw on a website (I dont remember which) that this could actually slow down browsing . Basically, it will load one thing at a time instead of loading everything at once, which uses more CPU. I have had this option turned on for awhile so I turned it off and tried it out. For me it actually slowed down browsing . So use at your own risk.

All the other options are fine as far as I know.
That may be true for some.

I've tried all the options before adding this one and this last one helped it to be even quicker (the other tips helped too).

Running XP Home on dial-up.

-p.s. actually, i've skipped that "browser turbo set to true" part as i overlooked it. Setting it to true seemed to slow down Firefox and K-Meleon.



Oh! I forgot to say THANK YOU to JshLnsctt !!!
It's the best tweak i've tested yet!

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Old 21 Jan 2005, 09:52 AM   #6
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hmm... works mostly

for some reason everything seems to load much faster except that now the the whole .wikipedia.org website is quite sluggish. of course, maybe their server is just particularly overrun with traffic today.
either way i guess i will post again if it starts working well or if it continues to be slow. thanks for the tweak either way.
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Old 21 Jan 2005, 10:04 AM   #7
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If you want to test to see if it is slowing it down:
If you have IE try going to that site with IE and see if it is about as slow or faster
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Old 21 Jan 2005, 10:47 AM   #8
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Is there anything special I have to set before entering :config in the address bar? All I get is a brand new untitled tab.

Edit: never mind - should be about:config with no space before the colon

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Old 21 Jan 2005, 10:21 PM   #9
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If it does slow down - how do you retore defaults??? I think it does slow don on my system (Firefox 1.o on win XP home, P4 Toshiba)
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Old 22 Jan 2005, 02:55 AM   #10
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If it does slow down - how do you retore defaults??? I think it does slow don on my system (Firefox 1.o on win XP home, P4 Toshiba)
Try going to about:config and just undoing what you did.

Remember the values if you're that concerned. Honestly few have reported problems and those that did disabled the last one and it worked fine.
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Old 22 Jan 2005, 04:53 AM   #11
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I am sorry I put the space there, I will fix it. It is about:config


Edit: Guess I can't edit it because in the post at the top there are no spaces when I hit edit
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Old 22 Jan 2005, 05:24 AM   #12
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I am sorry I put the space there, I will fix it. It is about:config


Edit: Guess I can't edit it because in the post at the top there are no spaces when I hit edit
Same here.

It appears it's an EMD bug.

Try putting under code, like this.

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about:config
EDIT: Nevermind. That doesn't work either.

Something about t: or :c . Hmm..
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Old 22 Jan 2005, 05:24 AM   #13
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If it does slow down - how do you retore defaults??? I think it does slow don on my system (Firefox 1.o on win XP home, P4 Toshiba)
Once you add a configuration line, you cannot delete it in about:config. You can reset it to have no value. Right click on the line nglayout.initialpaint.delay and select Reset.
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Old 22 Jan 2005, 05:27 AM   #14
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I am sorry I put the space there, I will fix it. It is about:config
Quite alright. It's something to do with this web editor. I tried it in double-quotes, with a backslash, but it's the editor apparently.
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Old 22 Jan 2005, 06:48 AM   #15
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The same sort of thing happened when I typed "about:mozilla" (without the quotes, but within a {url} container) in an earlier thread.
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