Firefox Tip

[Ken Moffat]

   This website:

   http://forevergeek.com/open_source/make_firefox_faster.php

   has a good mozilla-firefox (mozilla also) tip, which seems to speed
   things up quite a bit:

   Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

   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 receives.

   If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster
   now!


-- 
ken