Digital Technology for Digital Living.
December 28, 2004
Speed Up Web Surfing In Firefox.
If you have broadband, and you use the Firefox browser, there’s an interesting couple of tips to try. If you don’t use Firefox, you’re so 2004.
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”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 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 recieves.
From Free Republic and Firefox Help : Tips & Tricks.
Gadgetman | | Broadband, Software
December 29th, 2004 at 11:24 am
Thanks for the first tip; I hadn’t seen that before.
I’ve been using the paintdelay tip since before the option was hidden on the about:config page. However, I set it to 100 because I found 0 was causing problems with some pages. Painting the page before all the info was there sometimes resulted in strange layout issues.