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Firefox and the art of webspeed
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 6:35 pm
by Kwackerz
its been about for a while but im currently using the latest Firefox with the 'fasterfox' plug in.
Definately a quicker browsing experience and so far ive found no ills with using the slightly modded firefox.
Ive also done the obligatory websearch and changed a couple of other settings using the following:
Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:
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 recieves.
If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!
just thought i'd pass it on
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:30 pm
by joecrx
ok done all that , now im off tto try it
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:33 pm
by Kwackerz
Mine's a definate improvement over the firefox I was running before, even though that was already quicker than internet explorer and on par with google's chrome browser
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:07 pm
by Willopotomas
Have you tried Opera Browser? I've used most versions of IE (from ver 3), nutscrape, chrome and even firefox in search of the best.. Can't beat Opera IMO. Try it.. you wont look back.
Also.. Had a look at the settings above in the Opera system and have made a couple of modifications. Pipelining was already turned on.. I've upped the number of hits though, so it's even faster now!
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:31 pm
by D-Rider
If you hadn't noticed already, you'll soon discover that Will is an evangelical zealot for Opera .... he speaks very highly of it but as I've been happy with Firefox I've not tried Opera yet.
That said, I have had a lot of crashes with the last version of FF I was using and was getting a bit pissed off with it (probably as I had several million tabs open TBH) but yesterday I upgraded to FF 3.6 so we'll see how that goes.
Not heard of fasterfox before ... might have to give it a go
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:31 pm
by Kwackerz
Ive got Opera.. ill have a play with that too. tweaking is always fun..
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:52 pm
by Aladinsaneuk
safari - but i love my macs
(and yes I know it will be first to be hacked!)
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:23 pm
by Kwackerz
bloody hell!!!!!! just tried opera with a few of the above tweaks and it is a seriously quick browser! I shall continue to compare but nnnyeer.. Opera wins so far
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:24 am
by Samray
Your tweaks appear to have given my mouse a headache, it is constantly seizing for a few secs at a time.
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:55 am
by joecrx
it is faster now iv tweaked up firefox , but it was fast before ,
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:58 am
by Kwackerz
Samray wrote:Your tweaks appear to have given my mouse a headache, it is constantly seizing for a few secs at a time.
Hmm I have no ills with mine. you had a look at task manager to see what's using up your system resources?
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:09 am
by Samray
I suspect it is down to dwm combined with multi tabs, some on auto reload alongside your tweaks.
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:19 am
by Kwackerz
I reckon so
Just added the keeptube add on.. allows saving of the FLV files found on youtube, google vids, etc
Saves using youripper or similar, as its all within firefox
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:47 am
by snapdragon
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:05 pm
by Samray
snapdragon wrote:
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