18. February 2008 – 02:38 PM
I was angry and frustrated that Firefox once again has slowed down the i-lost-count-this time! Seriously, it’s such a great browser but so full of little problems which really can get annoying as hell!
So I went to google and found 5 easy-to-do tweak with remarkable results! Remarkable, because you truly can see the difference between a standard and a tweaked Firefox. One might wonder why such tweaks are not standard options..
Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Look for the following entries:
- “network.http.pipelining” and set value to true
- “network.http.proxy.pipelining” and set value to true
- “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” and set value to 30-40
- “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set value to 0
- “config.trim_on_minimize” and set value to true
If you don’t have them, create them:
- Right click -> new -> boolean -> type in “network.http.pipelining” -> set value to true
- Right click -> new -> boolean -> type in “network.http.proxy.pipelining” -> set value to true
- Right click -> new -> boolean -> type in “config.trim_on_minimize” -> set value to true
- Right click -> new -> integer -> type in “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” -> set value to 30 (default is 1)
- Right click -> new -> integer -> type in “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” -> set value to 0
Now the explanation as to what does what:
network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining:
It enables pipe-lining, which means the browser normally sends 1 request at a time, with pipeline enabled it will send the amount of request you set in “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests”!
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests:
Like I said Firefox usually sends 1 request at any time. By setting a different value than 1, you force Firefox to send more requests thus enabling it to load faster, because he gets more responses at any time.
config.trim_on_minimize:
Each time you minimize your Firefox it will clear the RAM. Firefox is infamous of wasting RAM for Pages you don’t need so you can go “back” to them.
nglayout.initialpaint.delay:
If this value doesn’t exist or isn’t set Firefox waits 250 milliseconds, or 0.25 of a second then starts rendering the requested page(s). People report that setting it to 0, ergo forcing Firefox to begin rendering immediately causes almost all pages to show up faster.
Addendum:
If you are one of the lazy lot, and don’t want to manually tweak your Firefox, here’s a great Extension with virtually the same effect
Fasterfox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269
Enjoy your new, faster Firefox!
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