SwiftDeath Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 Holy crap! its like 2x faster for me. AND I"M ON CABLE!!! damn these speeds will impress my friends. I was looking for something like this... cause I noticed my firefox was a bit slow, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted July 3, 2004 Report Share Posted July 3, 2004 Does anyone know by any chance, what on earth these options actually do/mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 3, 2004 Report Share Posted July 3, 2004 Does anyone know by any chance, what on earth these options actually do/mean? yes, you've just compromised your sys :lol: no....I haven't a clue, other than the obvious of what they are called ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmc77 Posted July 3, 2004 Report Share Posted July 3, 2004 Wow. I'm impressed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted July 3, 2004 Report Share Posted July 3, 2004 (edited) can anyone let me know what the default value for network.http.proxy.keep-alive is? I think I may have changed it accidentally (it's set to true but I don't use a proxy) Thanks Edited July 3, 2004 by papaschtroumpf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 3, 2004 Report Share Posted July 3, 2004 default boolean true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted July 3, 2004 Report Share Posted July 3, 2004 I too have tried it and it really does work. I could not find the last one of the recommended lines to alter but the rest I was able to set and the one which had the 100 setting I made to 200 and it all works aok. Firefox certainly is a great browser. I thought Galeon was great too but this one even beats it. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 3, 2004 Report Share Posted July 3, 2004 (edited) yes, I was a galeon only person til it went gtk2 and had it's rendering probs that I believe are now fixed. I went opera...can't stand mozilla and like epiphany except it's horrid bkmrks. Finally....we have.. ...oh, and thunderbird Edited July 3, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted July 5, 2004 Report Share Posted July 5, 2004 that really does work :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted July 5, 2004 Report Share Posted July 5, 2004 (edited) Ok, it works. It's about 1.5 faster on my PC (firefox 9 on Windows) But I have to ask: what's the catch? Darkelve Edited July 5, 2004 by Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nggalai Posted July 5, 2004 Report Share Posted July 5, 2004 Ok, it works. It's about 1.5 faster on my PC (firefox 9 on Windows) But I have to ask: what's the catch? Darkelve Basically, with 100 open connections per web site, you're blocking out other users. Say, if a server allows only 500 connections at a time and 5 people with such a config show up, it will become slower for the rest. 93, -Sascha.rb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nocturnes Posted July 5, 2004 Report Share Posted July 5, 2004 You know, I am starting to wonder what else in there could be ... sped-up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 Both of these options are listed here: http://texturizer.net/firefox/tips.html#oth_pipelining Set the value of network.http.pipelining to "true".Set the value of network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to "100". Set the value of network.http.proxy.pipelining to "true" Pipelining is an experimental feature, designed to improve page-load performance, that is unfortunately not well supported by some web servers and proxies. Set the value of nglayout.initialpaint.delay to "0" By default, Firefox doesn't try to render a web page for 250 milliseconds, because it's waiting for data. If you add the code below to your user.js file, Firefox immediately tries to render the page, even without complete data. The drawback is on slower machines where doing a "reflow" may actually cause the total page load time to be longer. I added the last option as it was suggested and it too does make quite a big difference. Firefox is much much faster iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 Basically, with 100 open connections per web site, you're blocking out other users. Say, if a server allows only 500 connections at a time and 5 people with such a config show up, it will become slower for the rest. But seeing as though the maximum value that firefox will accept is 8, I wouldn't worry too much. A user set value of 100 will be interpreted as 8 by the program. Besides, the problem you describe is much more relevant to the option network.http.max-connections-per-server, please don't fiddle with that value! Pipelining bascially just requests several objects at once, without waiting for a response first - which is why a dramatic improvement can be seen even with quick net connections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nggalai Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 Ah, damn. You're right, Qchem--I overread the pipeline in that line of code. :D Another thing to keep in mind if going for speed on firefox: only enable those extensions you really need. Depending on the Firefox build, your extensions, and your system, the more extensions -> the slower it may get. So if you hardly ever use mouse gestures, don't install the extension or at least turn it off. You get the idea. 93, -Sascha.rb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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