Firefox Faster – HowTo
Posted in Sustainable Tech on 12/04/2005 11:11 pm by admin
The about:config trick:
After you get past the Beginner’s Guide stage with Firefox, this “power-user” trick will make Firefox download pages faster by allowing multiple connections so it can download more than one file at a time. (Broadband users only!)
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.
12/12/2005 at 1:18 am
Hi Gare,
Just one caution about Firefox 1.5. It has a small, but occasionally annoying bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306426
Basically, the cursor sometimes stops highlighting bookmarks correctly, and starts flickering on them. They still work, but not quite as effortlessly as they normally do. It only seems to happen for me when I’ve had Firfox open for a long while. It goes away if you close it and then re-open. From that thread, it looks like they’re aware of it, but I wouldn’t know when they’ll make a patch or something available to fix it. For anyone who really can’t tolerate it, and no longer has version 1.0.7 on their machine, last I looked you could still download the British version of the English language Firefox in the older version.
Good stuff on your blog!
John