Making Firefox Faster

I just ran across this and thought I'd share...it def. works, though I wonder how 30 simul queries from your IP makes your ISP feel...

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 (mine is set to 100..hehehe). 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.

Nice

If i remember right than you are able to do a similar thing to windows explorer too.

You can also use fasterfox a plug-in for FF (check on the FF website) if you want a copy for Version 3 of FF let me know and I will send you my modded copy so that it works with the new version as the dev has not released the new update.

I'm really behind the times i just got firefox2 and now i see version 3 is out.
Is fasterfox the same as smoketowntheory's method?
Actually, I'll just look it up.
thanks

Nice Share!


What to do if i want a normal F.F.browser after this setup!

Just undo the changes you made.

I did some digging on I*E tweaks and came up with this vid. I have to say that with I*E behind the proxy (t0r) it's about comparable in speed. It's a proxy after all so it's not lightening in a bottle here.

This does require some registry work, so if that makes you nervous, be careful. these changes are pretty straight forward (just be sure to write down the default values BEFORE you make any changes).

This video shows you how to basically do the pipelining trick for IE (same concept anyhow)

hxxp://www.metacafe*com/watch/333720/lightning_fast_browsing_trick_for_internet_explorer_and_firefox/#

Here is a copy for FF version 3. Its not my version but should be ok

http://blog.yennick.eu/index.php/2008/07/07/fasterfox-for-firefox-3/

If you dont trust this person you can make it work by your self download the old version Rename .xpi to .zip extract install.rdf and change the following lines

<em:maxVersion>2.0.0.*</em:maxVersion>

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to

<em:maxVersion>3.*</em:maxVersion>

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repack and rename and then drag on to FF