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Viper139
12-28-2004, 10:46 PM
I just found this on another board posted by Jaxstraw. I applied the new settings to my Firefox and it worked well. Give it a try if you like.

From Jaxstraw:

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
(double click on these to change the values)

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!

Ironman
12-28-2004, 10:57 PM
Thanks for the tip, just made the change, I'll see how it works!!

Ironman

Mali
12-29-2004, 04:24 PM
well Ironhead... hows it working?

Ironman
12-29-2004, 04:30 PM
well Ironhead... hows it working?
Increased speed of:

325 milliseconds on initial page start
.525 seconds on page refresh
1.123 seconds on thread activation

Not bad!!!

:^o

Ironman

Mali
12-29-2004, 04:43 PM
LOL.. ok.. i guess i wont be switching over anytime soon then :P

I still like my "SlimBrowser" browser