Friday, December 21, 2007

Speed up your Firefox

I just found this while stumbling around and I must say I can tell the difference. According to this site. Firefox is optimized for Dail-Up. But it includes a pipelining feature, which is disabled by default. If you activate it firefox will load in several things at once, instead of picture per picture. This puts a bit more strain on your connection but if you're on broadband it should be much different. (I'm not an expert on this field, just saying what the site says)
This is how you activate it:

* Type “about:config” into the adress bar and hit return. Type “network.http” in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
* Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
* Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
* Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
* Also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0? (I think this is just a zero, the ? is probably a typo). This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

I'm still trying it out, seeing if my pc doesn't explode or something. But I have noticed that Firefox does indeed load pages faster.
Again: not me, got it from here.

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