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Re: How to Speed Up Firefox

rover3500 — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:38:29 -0000

Apparently,quite a few places say that 8 is the max for network.http.pipelining.maxrequests,any more is ignored

Re: How to Speed Up Firefox

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:53:22 -0000

forget "tweaking" firefox. use local DNS

TreeWalker "Hawk"

Re: How to Speed Up Firefox

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:30:02 -0000

Is this working for FF2?

Re: How to Speed Up Firefox

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 06:31:38 -0000

nglayout.initialpaint.delay

da second promt is either true or falst, not a number. so now what? keep it as false?

Re: How to Speed Up Firefox

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:58:02 -0000

thanks a lot!

Re: How to Speed Up Firefox

risherz — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:37:16 -0000

<ul id="quote"><h6>TONY_N wrote:</h6>if i accidentally hit New String. how do I change it to Boolean? or does it not matter thanks.</ul>

In order to remove any preference from the about:config area (in this case the string) just right click (or control click) on it and hit 'Reset' and just restart Firefox. It is going to remove the string. Then just add in the correct boolean.

It doesn't really matter anyways, but if it is causing problems then you might want to remove the string.

Re: How to Speed Up Firefox

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:25:52 -0000

if i accidentally hit New String. how do I change it to Boolean? or does it not matter thanks.

Re: How to Speed Up Firefox

johnw — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:40:19 -0000

maxrequests is set to 4 for a very good reason. Setting it to 32 is fairly hostile/inconsiderate to a web server administrator.

Other than that, good tips.

Re: How to Speed Up Firefox

risherz — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 15:18:22 -0000

Well if you wan't to speed up firefox without tweaking all the settings yourself I would use Mozilla Optimizer, which is going to tweak your pipelining settings and make Firefox faster (the same thing the recipe tells you)! You can download this at
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Browser-Tweak/Mozilla-Optimizer.shtml and all you do is run it and it does this for you.
You can also get FasterFox (a firefox extension) which also tweaks your about:config settings.
You can get this at https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1269&application=firefox

Try either one of them and you are definately going to see a speed difference just like the recipe says!

Hope this helps the people who don't want to change settings themselves! :D

Re: How to Speed Up Firefox

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:11:45 -0000

Many thx!
Very noticeable improvement, especially as i am running Firefox on a very old machine: P 133!!!