Firefox 3 Super speed increase
Following on from my previous article, Firefox 3 Easter Eggs, I have discovered that broadband users can get a significant speed increase from Firefox just by changing a couple of settings. Firefox is distributed with settings that will work with any machine or setup, but really anyone with a half-decent connection can make these changes and get a great speed increase, and here’s how you do it!
Inside the address bar type:
about:config
and then find:
network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
and set them both to “true”. This adjusts the pipelining settings.
Then find
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
and set it to 8, though you should feel free to play with this number a little and tweak it as you see fit - the article http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.pipelining.maxrequests suggests that 8 is easily sufficient.
Finally, right-click on any setting and select ‘new’ and then ‘integer’. Set the name to “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” (you might want to copy & paste it) and set the value to “0″ (zero). This removes the render delay.
And hey presto you should notice a significant speed increase from a simple optimization!
ps. You may be interested in a related article: Firefox 3 Easter Eggs (fun hidden messages in firefox 3).
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February 16th, 2009 at 9:03 am
I noticed this article was written in June of 2008. Does this info still apply with version 3.06?
February 16th, 2009 at 10:09 am
I cant understand the following instruction:
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Finally, right-click on any setting and select ‘new’ and then ‘integer’. Set the name to “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” (you might want to copy & paste it) and set the value to “0″ (zero)
unquote
Could you be a little more specific?
February 25th, 2009 at 9:16 am
wow matt excellent tips now no need to waiting long times to start firefox.Now so many tricks about firefox browser and the new one i obtain SEO firefox
June 4th, 2009 at 8:12 am
I don’t think he could have gotten more specific.
June 23rd, 2009 at 4:53 pm
@J.V. Adavi:
It’s pretty straightforward as it is.
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