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RobertGraham
February 27th, 2009, 05:24 PM
This is not my tip btw


Heres a little tip that can triple the speed your browser asks for data. Thus increasing your browsing speed by about 280% (You should have Cable or Broadband internet for this). If you have dialup you might actually suffer slower load times then faster ones.

1. Type
about:config into the address bar and hit return. (If it says you could void your warranty, Just click "I'll Be Careful", It's just firefox anyway and this wont hurt it).

Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequestsNormally 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 about "30".This means it will make 30 requests at once. (Don't put higher than 30, because some sites will think you are hammering them and they will ban you. (Hammering is like DDoSing)

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New Integer. Name it
nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to
0This 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!

Just remember that with Dial-up if you try this, due to the slow speeds on Dial-up requesting 30 connections with a webpage at once will bring your browsing speed to a standstill.

Enjoy the speed people. Everything in a page should load instantly now, all at once and almost immediately.


From here: Link (http://thevistaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=46258)

Hunter
February 27th, 2009, 05:28 PM
I use this. Seems to work good.

ThePlague
February 27th, 2009, 05:29 PM
Just did it now. Seems to work better, thanks.

RobertGraham
February 27th, 2009, 05:42 PM
Here is another tutorial I found in that thread: Link (http://howto.helpero.com/howto/Speed-Up-Firefox_31.html)

Note: Do not change the "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to "8" if you want it to be faster. This only slows it down. I would suggest doing what I am doing atm. Change the "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to "45". This will make it beastly fast. Though, making it too fast would crash firefox and probably your internet for a good 2 mins. Make sure that you are not using Dial-up. Using these settings will NOT effect dial-up connection.

cheezdue
February 27th, 2009, 05:43 PM
This is great.

Cortexian
February 27th, 2009, 10:44 PM
Good tip, thanks.

Warsaw
February 27th, 2009, 11:15 PM
Old tip, been using it, troll, troll, troll, etc.

:D

It's an awesome trick. Take that Safari users.

DrunkenSamus
February 28th, 2009, 01:14 AM
Ehh, don't notice much. It's as fast as a non-busy day of browsing so that's something, I guess.

ThePlague
February 28th, 2009, 01:19 AM
Instead of setting that thing to 30, I set it to 25 :)

I see a difference on some things, such as pictures loading faster and posts all showing up at once, but other than that no big difference.

Cortexian
February 28th, 2009, 01:38 AM
Instead of setting that thing to 30, I set it to 25 :)

I see a difference on some things, such as pictures loading faster and posts all showing up at once, but other than that no big difference.
45 for me, I noticed a second or so difference. Nothing to write home about though, though I'm already home so that would be pretty redundant!

RobertGraham
February 28th, 2009, 10:35 AM
Wowowow, I changed mine to 80, and its like O______________O

But here's the catch... I doesn't like to load the cookies. So you might have to log into things that you set to automatically log into.

klange
February 28th, 2009, 01:50 PM
I've had my laptop set to 100 for quite a long time and I've never had any problems.

RobertGraham
February 28th, 2009, 02:07 PM
180, beat that, and it doesn't do that funky cookie thing either

Terin
February 28th, 2009, 07:26 PM
Thanks. I knew about the about:config page for a while, but I had no idea what I could do in it to help my browser. Changing it has helped me connect to this one website that is always extremely difficult to get on at first. It went from about 15 seconds to about 1, a huge improvement.

mR_r0b0to
March 1st, 2009, 12:42 PM
the nglayout thing is a beast

other than that i've done the other ones

Syuusuke
March 1st, 2009, 01:50 PM
Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to about "30".

This means it will make 30 requests at once. (Don't put higher than 30, because some sites will think you are hammering them and they will ban you. (Hammering is like DDoSing)...

Hmm it might explain a few things, but really?

TheGhost
March 2nd, 2009, 11:58 AM
I did this like a year ago, along with some other Windows tweak.

I'm pretty sure that either this tweak or the Windows one causes the following problem on my system: whenever I torrent something I literally cannot access the Internet from any browser or any other sort of connection. The torrent runs fine but literally cripples my system to any other sort of connections. Be warned.

BobtheGreatII
March 2nd, 2009, 02:01 PM
I dunno. I tried this, everything appeared much slower for some reason. Weird. I just switched it back... :iiam:

Syuusuke
March 2nd, 2009, 05:50 PM
I did this like a year ago, along with some other Windows tweak.

I'm pretty sure that either this tweak or the Windows one causes the following problem on my system: whenever I torrent something I literally cannot access the Internet from any browser or any other sort of connection. The torrent runs fine but literally cripples my system to any other sort of connections. Be warned.

I remember I had that problem, forgot how I fixed it...had something to do with torrent settings and your tcpip things.

Phopojijo
March 4th, 2009, 10:12 PM
Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to about "30".

This means it will make 30 requests at once. (Don't put higher than 30, because some sites will think you are hammering them and they will ban you. (Hammering is like DDoSing)...

Hmm it might explain a few things, but really?
Up to 30 requests at once... up to...