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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

To Speed Up Firefox

Source: Digital Life (Oct 1 2008) from DL reader Deshawn Toh
  1. Fire up Firefox
  2. Type “about:config” into the address bar 
  3. You will see a warning: "This might void your warranty..."
    Click the button that says "I'll be careful, I promise!
  4. Scroll down and look for the following entries
    network.http.pipelining: Set value to "true" by double clicking that line
    network.http.proxy.pipelining: Set value to "true" by double clicking that line
    network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: Change the value from 4 to between 8 and 30 (This means it will make 8-30 requests at once.)

    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.

  5. Lastly right-click anywhere in the brwoser, select "New" and then "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.
Additional Tip:
Install the add-on, AdBlock Plus (from mozilla.com) to prevents time-wasting ads and banners from loading.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

the pipelining will work but to a certain extent.
if u r accessing an already busy site, it will slow down ur connections as it has to entertain more requests from you~!

hmm adblock plus works but only i u have a good filter subscription else the default is so-so only.
currently using this filter
http://easylist.adblockplus.org/easyelement+easylist.txt

or some swear by filterset.G

Butterflygalz said...

haha i haven try this .. just posted to remind myself.

Have u tried google chrome? I heard is fast too...

Anonymous said...

hee =P
no problem.

nope. think it dun have the ability to add extensions etc yet so i wun use it yet.