Guide: Speeding Up Firefox

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  1. Puree

    Puree Well-Known Member

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    Ive tested this, and it works. Dont do it unless your on a broadband connection, but you can try it anyways, because it can always be undone :lol:
    First of all, press "Ctrl+t" to make a new tab, and type in: about:config

    Once you get to about:config, there will be a large list of configuration settings.

    Type this into the top to filter out the pointless ones: network.http.pipelining

    Then when you have it sorted, it will show 2 config settings: network.http.pipelining, and network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

    on the "network.http.pipelining" line, right click on "false" and make it true.
    on the "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" line, change the value to 25-50 depending on your speed (25 for 100kb/s download and lower, 40-50 for 10mbit and above)

    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.
     
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    wow thx man
     
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    Anyone tried it?
    Does it work
    Thanks btw
     
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    For anyone using 56k, this won't work for you.
     
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    I posted this aaaages ago, and yeah, it works :)
     
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    If you get the fasterfox add-on for firefox, then all that stuff should have been done for you automatically.
     
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    Was gonna say both of the above :P Rather than do this yourself, grab the Kettu for Firefox and Fasterfox add-ons. Kettu should help clean it up/max it out and Fasterfox will do all of this and optimise it for your internet connection. But yeah, this does work :P
     

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