Speed up Firefox!

[Zeggy]

How To Speed Up Firefox

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 recieves.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!

[Slashmore]

Wow that really works.

[AcidicOne]

hahah i just noticed the original post is from 2006 >.< but figured what the heck and tried it as well. All i can say is ownage!

[jannesiera]

A friend told me this to some days ago. But isn't there a downside?

[Qwerty]

I guess it might crash if you try and execute to many requests at once, but it should be ok for casual browsing...

[Nox]

I was searching to find a good numbers to set in Opera's settings (Opera has this by default) and I've found this. It seems pretty old but I guess it's still valid

Often too many simultaneous connections actually slow down the time taken to load a page (servers can deny lots of simultaneous connections, and the time overhead to make lots of new connections takes longer than if data was pipelined on a single/few connections).

(http://operawiki.info/Opera7Performance)

[zykal]

Some sites will ban your IP if you use this method, as it takes away from other users. they could be servicing 30 users instead of 1 if you set the requests to 30. that makes them angry cause your using up their connections.

[Qwerty]

Wait, it makes 30 simultanios connections to the same server? For a single page, or for all the content (images, stylesheets, etc.)

[Nox]

Wait, it makes 30 simultanios connections to the same server? For a single page, or for all the content (images, stylesheets, etc.)

I believe that doesn't matter, it's 30 requests to server, but it's surely per content, they wouldn't be so dumb to make FF request the same element 30 times (at least I think it's not clever and it has no reason)
In Opera there is "max connections to a server" and "max total connections", so in this case there is a difference

http://egonitron.com/2007/05/25/the-truth-about-the-firefox-pipelining-trick/
Here are some interesting points, although some were already
(just googled now "firefox pipelining", sure many other sites will have some more info)