Tweaking firefox to load faster

I found this tip on-line but have not tried it. has anyone done the below to speed up firefox?


forevergeek.com has a useful guide on speeding up firefox for broadband users. basically after getting to the hidden config settings you set the browser to request more data that it usually does.

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!

 

Between FireTune and Tweak Network Settings I have enabled some of those tweaks.

Also iirc, setting "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to anything higher than 8 does nothing.

 

Hello,
I don't see any delay in speed.
Besides, your ISP / firewall are much more important than other settings, regarding the browsing speed.
Mrk

 

The very first opening of FF+6ext. takes 3 seconds, but after that less than 2 seconds.
On my old computer it took much longer than 3 seconds, but I didn't care because FF is a very good browser and I can't do anything with speed.
Why is speed so important for a browser, don't you read the webpages or do you read like Superman ?

 

Rofl.
Even without any tweak I found Firefox reasonably fast.

 

There is fast and then there is faster.

 

hi, It does make a noticeable difference, though I think it was mainly the nglayout.intialpaint.delay =0 what did it, not vital, but there you go...
I actually misread the title, I read somewhere that you could speed up the loading of firefox, not the webpages, but the browser itself. It was something to do with compressing stuff I think, but not really sure. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

 

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

The max supported is only 8 (as mentioned by WSfuser) ... default is 4. Guideline from the http 1.1 specs is 2, but not concrete.

The aim is to pack multiple http requests into one tcpip packet, obviously this reduces tcpip loads.

Setting the value too high will cause the first request to take longer to process (as all requests need to be received in that pipeline before the first will commence) and can actually lead to slower browsing.