Speed Up Firefox Tutorial

[Kazuya]

-=Speed Up Firefox. Browse pages even faster!=-
Forevergeek.com has a useful guide on speeding up firefox for broadband users. This works great!
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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.
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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.

NOTICE: People say that 8 requests is more then enough. Refer to Polobunny's Thread for an explantion.
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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!

Kazuya= It worked for me, I hope it makes you happy too.

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-=FireFox Plugins=-
Macromedia Flash Player
Real Networks RealPlayer
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Apple QuickTime
Windows Media Player
Sun Microsystems Java Plug-In


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-=FireFox Extensions=-
FlashGot 0.5.7.8
Enables Mozilla and Firefox to handle single and massive ("all" and "selection") downloads using the most popular external download managers for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD (15 currently supported, see http://www.flashgot.net for details). FlashGot offers also a Build Gallery functionality which helps to synthetize full media galleries in one page, from serial contents previously scattered on several pages, for easy and fast "download all".
Install FlashGot
For FireFox: 0.7 - 1.0.2

Bandwidth Tester 0.4.1
Tells you the bandwidth of your current internet connection.
Install Bandwidth Tester
For FireFox: 0.7 - 1.0+

Foxy Tunes 1.1
Do you listen to Music while surfing the Web?
Now you can control your favorite media player without ever leaving the browser and more...
Supports WinAmp, iTunes, foobar2000, Windows Media Player, Musicmatch, Quintessential, J. River, jetAudio, XMPlay, MediaMonkey, Media Player Classic, Sonique, wxMusik, Real Player, XMMS, Noatun, Juk, Amarok, Music Player Daemon, Rhythmbox and many other players.
Install FoxyTunes
For FireFox 0.9.x - 1.0+

More Tools Coming Soon...

[Vivi]

Wow this is great! Thanks for the guide much love Rep for you my friend.

[Winged 2.0]

Hmm, that appears to slow my net down. At least it helped somebody. Rep for your efforts.

[Rufus]

whoa. speeds up my dsl connection...

[Valholy]

it worked for me,thanks rep for you

edit:damn i must spread more rep before giving to you,i could give you right now but some stupid gave me a bad rep so i couldnt reach my 2 bar rep ,ill give you rep when i can dont worry

[Skinner8]

Eh... Haven't we seen this tutorial enough times by now?

[Soeru]

Well, it always comes in handy, perhaps stickying this would be a good idea.

Rep for you mate, Firefox does run significantly faster. I think there are even more keys and values you can change to improve Firefox's performance, but I don't remember any...

[Skinner8]

Very well, thread stickied so that any more on the subject won't be necessary.

[polobunny]

Eh... Haven't we seen this tutorial enough times by now?

Yes, prolly 5 times on EP...

[GODJonez]

Good thing that Firefox users can now enjoy that too. Opera had pipelining enabled by default...

[polobunny]

Pipelining was possible in firefox since ages now, but somehow no one ever thought hat enabling it by default and puttin a value of 8 would help..
Btw, 30 is way too more and might break your connection to the website (weak packets dying) thus giving you slowdowns. Using 8 should be enough.

Btw, pipelining doesn't mean making more connections to a website, but mostly like cutting 1 connection in X parts.



I'll try to explain why 30 is a bit too much. This is explained in a childish way and doesn't exactly reflect reality:
Polobunny pipeling bedtime story for kids
First, firefox cuts the connection in 30, sending 30 scavenger bots retreive data.
Fact: Some scavenger bots are bigger, thus slower.
The smaller bots are returning fast to their base, while the bigger bots take more time.
Some scavenger bots can die of "horrible scavenger crash". The bot size has nothing to do with their crash, unless they are way too big (that almost never happens).
If too much big scavenger bots die (and all the bots returned) and the page isn't loaded completely, firefox will send 30 other bots. (doubling the process time)
Fact: When putting more bots they'll need to be faster or they'll die of being too old (again, this is a fictive representation)
Fact: A bot speeding at 100mph has more chance or crashing then a bot running at 50mph.
Scavenger bots all returned safely and has jillions of kids and lived happily.
End

So now that you understand pipelining, and if this firefox trick doesn't really help you, try to lower the pipelining.maxrequests number. If you rconnection is weak you'll get nothing if you put 30.

That's it, have a great day pipeliners.


P.S. Yeah Opera pipelining is godly and enabled by default.

[Valholy]

so what number do you recomend for the pipeline? 5 perhaps?

[Panda Man]

there was extension that enables firefox to resume its last state (all the tabs you had open, what site you were on) from when you closed it, and i cannot for the life of christ remember what it was called... can any1 help me?

[Vivi]

there was plug-in that enables firefox to resume its last state (all the tabs you had open, what site you were on) from when you closed it, and i cannot for the life of christ remember what it was called... can any1 help me?

It would be nice of you to make a new thread about this , Thanks.

[Panda Man]

wtf?
#1. i meant say extension rather than plug-in, just wanted to point that out
#2. why would i create a topic just for this?