A Faster FireFox

[12thPaladin]

I stumbled upon this and copy / pasted it:


If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by default, its optimized for dial-up connections). Heres how:

* Type about:config into the address bar and hit return. Type network.http in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
* Set network.http.pipelining to true
* Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true
* Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
* Also, 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.


So I've done all that but I'm not noticing any difference. Do these settings improve performance at all?

[squarebear]

Internet Explorer does this by default.
Bear in mind, you will find some websites will not work with multiple accesses like this.

I believe that this trick is about 7 years old and will probably now not work any more.

[12thPaladin]

Thanks squarebear, the article wasn't dated so I've no idea how relevant these settings are to Firefox now. I think if anything, I've screwed it up. Does seem to have slowed a bit.

[squarebear]

Indeed. If there was a safe and secure way of speeding Firefox up, I'm sure Mozilla will have already considered it.

[ChuckFickens]

Firefox only supports upto 8 concurrent connections anyhow, so no point in setting it to anything over 8.

and all the "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" setting does is starts displaying the page sooner, not quicker.

[12thPaladin]

Thank you both.