Make Firefox Faster

[The Bossman]

Follow the step-by-step instructions below:

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

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” - by double clicking on it.

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true” - by double clicking on it.

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30 - again, double click and you can change the number manually to 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!

I was also reading somewhere (I don’t remember where now.. I restarted Firefox to check out the above changes) that you shouldn’t make the last “nglayout” change on OSX for some reason. But give it a try– you’ll like it! Of course this also increases the load on a given webserver as it gets more simultaneous requests per browser, but I’d say that the the speed improvement is worth it.

If this is known, then I apologize, but for those who don't know, then it will hopefully be helpful for you.

Edited September 14, 2007 by the bossman

[MrLlamaLlama]

This is known AFAIK, i used to use it, and thought it did make it faster, but it was probably just a placebo (me thinking it's faster, just because i fiddled with some stuff which i didn't understand)

But that was before my PC format, might use this again.

[Spaz The Great]

I'm sorry, but this sounds like either someone screwing around or simply misinformed. How will making your PC attempt MULTIPLE requests AND making the site try to handle more requests make things FASTER? That just goes against everything common sense would tell you about computers....

[The Bossman]

No idea, but it does work. I've changed things back to how they were before though, the setting might have altered the look of this forum for me, although I'm not sure if it was that or something else.

[Spaz The Great]

Still doesn't sound logical. I mean, click a link 50 times before it loads or double click a game's .exe 20 times and tell me if it runs faster. Usually, it doesn't.....