TheFiresInTheSky Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Use the tutorial below to increase page speeds up to 4 times, making firefox the fastest browser. 1) Open Firefox and enter about:config in the address bar to bring up the Firefox configuration page. Change these attribute values by double-clicking on them. You can use the "filter" mechanism at the top of the page to find these attributes quickly: network.http.pipelining change the value to true network.http.pipelining.maxrequests change the value to 34 browser.turbo.enabled change the value to true If you can't find any of these values, right click in the browser window and select new => to create a new value (boolean for network.http.pipelining and browser.turbo.enabled, and integer for network.http.pipelining.maxrequests). Now close and restart Firefox to see it's amazing capabilities! it actually did speed it up some.. try it out, see for yourselves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1984 Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 wheres the quote from dude? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humpty Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Have a look at "Firefox Tweak Guide" page nine. The whole article is a good read in being a learning experience about FF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Could be place-bo effect, heh. I wonder if there are any side-effects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grzegorz Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 I use Tweak Network for that. It seems to me Firefox works faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1984 Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Have a look at "Firefox Tweak Guide" page nine. The whole article is a good read in being a learning experience about FF. awesome! i just did a whole bunch of tweaks and now have tons more desktop space! thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowday444 Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Actually, after about 10 timed tests with a clean cache I determined turbo (had to add that value) true was slower. Also, if you have the extension Fasterfox, you can change settings such as requests, by enabling Custom under options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mps69_1999 Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Thanks for the tips guys!! Don't know about FF on my PC but it sure as heck sped up FF Portable. Normally FF Portable, for me, would take 30-40 second to load, now it's up and running in under 5 seconds. My Webpage Googletalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFiresInTheSky Posted October 10, 2006 Author Share Posted October 10, 2006 wheres the quote from dude? not an appropriate site, check your PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwillener Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 I usually put such user-tweaks into the user.js file (C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*.default\user.js). That way you can easily revert to the default setting by removing the entries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humpty Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 Or you can type " about:config " (no quotes) into your url search window and add to bookmarks or even a new tab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony A Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 Those tweaks have been around for a while and they have been proven to be useless and even negative for FF performance. Check this out from the FF forums http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.ph...ight=pipelining Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators rridgely Posted October 14, 2006 Moderators Share Posted October 14, 2006 I think the best way to speed up firefox would be firetune. Its the only thing that I actually saw a speed increase with. When I used fasterfox things actually got slower. I've heard that firefox 2 supposedly has all the tweaks firetune was doing by default.(that could be wrong though I read it on a forum somewhere) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1984 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 im using a program called firefox preloader. cant remember where i got it from, and not sure if i have noticed any increase or not......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators rridgely Posted October 15, 2006 Moderators Share Posted October 15, 2006 im using a program called firefox preloader. cant remember where i got it from, and not sure if i have noticed any increase or not......... That program just loads firefox into memory when not in use so it starts up quicker. (If its the program I think it is)Its not needed as much as it was before firefox 1.5 because firefox used to load 10x slower then IE or opera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetasman01 Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 There is a reason those "options" are not on by default, they make your connection unstable and place extra load on the server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFiresInTheSky Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 fine, everybody just spam me! i saw an improvement in my PC and it got good revies from the site i got it from. also, it didnt make my connection unstable nor cause any problems on our network/PCs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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