Firefox Tip

[Rick Sivernell]

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:44:11 -0800
Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:

> 
>    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
> 
> 
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Ken

   Thanks, it seems to be faster, but with this new cpu AMD 64 3400+ it hard to tell.

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