Speed Tweaks For Firefox

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November 9th, 2004, 11:35 AM
Conan

Speed Tweaks For Firefox 1.0 Final and Earlier.

After experimenting with various builds of Firefox, I've figured out how to get it to run just as fast as IE! These settings may put additional load on web sites though.

Type in the Address Bar; about:config

Then scroll over to the following settings and adjust:

network.http.max-connections :40
network.http.max-connections-per-server :20
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server :20
network.http.pipelining :True
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests :32
network.http.proxy.pipelining :True

Close and relaunch browser and watch it fly! :msnnerd:
November 9th, 2004, 11:41 AM
Reverend

Nice Barb. Working good for me.

Better get some extra cooling for the TZ server. :D

For anyone thats not sure how to adjust the settings. Follow Conan's instructions by scrolling over the relevant entry and then right click it and select Modify. Then type in the new value that Conan posted.

To change a "false" value to "true" right click the entry and select Toggle
November 9th, 2004, 11:59 AM
Conan

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reverend

To change a "false" value to "true" right click the entry and select Toggle

Or you can also double-click to change to "true" or to enter a new numerical value.
November 9th, 2004, 13:04 PM
carloc

Pipelining can be enable in Mozilla Suite too.
Just check the two options in:
Edit->Preferences->Advanced->HTTP Networking
November 9th, 2004, 14:02 PM
petard

Thanks Conan! I'm smoking now!!!
November 9th, 2004, 14:31 PM
rohitk89

thanks conan....always thought that firefox was just a bit slower than ie...didnt know that it was universal until today...
November 9th, 2004, 14:54 PM
Big Booger

Works quite a bit faster! thanks.
November 9th, 2004, 15:11 PM
efc

Great results.
November 9th, 2004, 19:33 PM
anykey

...not too sure what I've gawn an' bin and dun. But I've followed your instructions Conan. :o :o :o
November 9th, 2004, 19:58 PM
Zak8022

sweetness... i'm not sure i really notice a difference... but i did it anyways. thanks conan
November 9th, 2004, 20:07 PM
lynchknot

This is what works for me (may not for you) Cable~3000/256

Quote:

These settings will put additional load on web sites

Quote:

user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 128);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 24);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 12); - or 20 like conan

// Enable pipelining:
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 100);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.firstrequest", true);

// (default is 250):
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);

// turn on timer-based reflow management
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);

//If you have Ramdisk:

// Path to Cache folder:
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.disk_directory","L:\\Local Disk");
November 9th, 2004, 22:20 PM
Conan

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zak8022

sweetness... i'm not sure i really notice a difference... but i did it anyways. thanks conan

If you test it with sites with lots of thumbnail images, you will really see the speed difference. ;)
November 11th, 2004, 08:13 AM
SupaStar

Quote:

Originally Posted by Conan

If you test it with sites with lots of thumbnail images, you will really see the speed difference. ;)

What sort of site has lots of thumbnail images :confused:

;)
November 13th, 2004, 10:44 AM
Tanglefoot

Awesome. That speeded my browsing by a factor of 2 and took 1 minute to do. Would that everything in life were so easy :D
November 14th, 2004, 17:52 PM
cyoung1616

This extention will do the same

https://update.mozilla.org/extension...firefox&id=327

Cody
December 2nd, 2004, 01:51 AM
fatalfury

Quote:

Originally Posted by Conan

After experimenting with various builds of Firefox, I've figured out how to get it to run just as fast as IE! These settings may put additional load on web sites though. [snip]

sweet tips!! thanks a lot!
December 3rd, 2004, 17:27 PM
carloc

Here you can find similar settings:
http://www.tweakfactor.com/articles/...oxtweak/4.html
December 8th, 2004, 13:14 PM
carloc

Internal tuning

Quote:

Originally Posted by Conan

After experimenting with various builds of Firefox, I've figured out how to get it to run just as fast as IE! These settings may put additional load on web sites though.

Type in the Address Bar; about:config

Then scroll over to the following settings and adjust:

network.http.max-connections :40
network.http.max-connections-per-server :20
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server :20
network.http.pipelining :True
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests :32
network.http.proxy.pipelining :True

Close and relaunch browser and watch it fly! :msnnerd:

The best tuning for Firefox depends on the global system speed and the network connection speed, so the only way to find it is by attempts.
Anyway you must consider the correct range of each value you want to change. As example

Code:

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests :32

has no meaning because this variable accepts only values from 1 to NS_HTTP_MAX_PIPELINED_REQUESTS, which is set to 8 (see nsHttp.h file in Firefox source).

Currently I'm using these settings:

Code:

network.http.max-connections : 48 network.http.max-connections-per-server : 20 network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy : 8 network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server : 16 network.http.pipelining : true network.http.pipelining.firstrequest : true network.http.pipelining.maxrequests : 8 network.http.proxy.pipelining : true nglayout.initialpaint.delay : 0 plugin.expose_full_path : true ui.submenuDelay : 0 browser.cache.memory.capacity : 65536 (means 64MB) browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl : true // ATTENTION!!! browser.xul.error_pages.enabled : true content.interrupt.parsing : true content.notify.backoffcount : 5 content.notify.interval : 750000 content.notify.ontimer : true content.switch.threshold : 750000 content.maxtextrun : 8191 content.max.tokenizing.time : 3000000 signed.applets.codebase_principal_support : true

I hope they work fine for the most of you! :D
December 12th, 2004, 21:23 PM
veronica

Here is a stopwatch page to check your loading times:

www.numion.com/Stopwatch/index.html

My longest was 2.7 seconds with conans values. I got 2.5 seconds with the

default settings on firefow exrensions network tweaks. I got a slower time

with the power settings. I got 2.2 seconds with the settings of carloc. :)

Happy Holidays

[edit]

I have cable and a 2.1 Celeron processer.

I tested it on www.techzonez.com. I do not know any thumbnail sites.
December 12th, 2004, 21:46 PM
carloc

Quote:

Originally Posted by veronica

I got 2.2 seconds with the settings of carloc. :)

It sounds good, Veronica! :thumbup:
January 11th, 2005, 19:36 PM
tarun

Quote:

Originally Posted by Conan

After experimenting with various builds of Firefox, I've figured out how to get it to run just as fast as IE! These settings may put additional load on web sites though.

Type in the Address Bar; about:config

Then scroll over to the following settings and adjust:

network.http.max-connections :40
network.http.max-connections-per-server :20
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server :20
network.http.pipelining :True
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests :32
network.http.proxy.pipelining :True

Close and relaunch browser and watch it fly! :msnnerd:

AMAZING. Its really faster after I did wat u said. I have to ask - How do u know such kewl stuff??? :eek:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Conan

These settings may put additional load on web sites though.

Thanks fer da tip. I guess I'll be checking my hotmail thru www.hotmail.com more often now :D

Righto @ rik. Will be more careful now. sorry for inconvenience :)
January 11th, 2005, 20:10 PM
rik

Please feel free to edit your posts and add information to them instead of making multiple posts.

Thank You
October 17th, 2005, 07:37 AM
Conan

There's a new speed tweak extension out, it's called Fasterfox:

Quote:

Quick Description

Performance and network tweaks for Firefox. Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay. Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with the unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing. A popup blocker for popups initiated by Flash plug-ins is also included.

https://addons.mozilla.org/extension...fo.php?id=1269
October 17th, 2005, 15:29 PM
tarun

Thanks Conan, there is a noticeable difference in speed. Does it enable prefetching of pages by default though?
October 17th, 2005, 16:13 PM
rik

Good find. I'm using it now.
October 19th, 2005, 12:14 PM
tarun

The new tweak is makes FF faster than the old one did, but with both I have trouble with 'site not found' errors. Does this happen to anyone else?
October 20th, 2005, 01:50 AM
Conan

Quote:

Originally Posted by tarun

The new tweak is makes FF faster than the old one did, but with both I have trouble with 'site not found' errors. Does this happen to anyone else?

Experiencing that too with the work PC.:( I uninstalled it let's see if things change.
April 8th, 2006, 08:00 AM
bionicblond

Wow this was an awesome thread, did not know it could move so fast. Once again Thanks to all! (but mostly Conan, since he did think about making it a thread ya know, and sharing the info with some of us less tech inclined...)