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Useful Firefox Tweek for thos ethat use it

Posted: Thu 13 Jan, 2005 5:34 pm
by Mazia
This is from the TPG resident on Whirlpool.net.au:

Hi guys,

Try this "power-user" trick to make it download pages faster by allowing multiple connections so it can download more than one file at a time. This is for Firefox only.

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.maxrequest­ s

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.maxreques­ ts" 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!

The rest of the link is:

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-re ... m?t=284198

Posted: Tue 18 Jan, 2005 12:07 pm
by kileman
Sweet! I shell give it a go!