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    Techzonez Governor Super Moderator Conan's Avatar
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    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!
    Last edited by Conan; November 9th, 2004 at 11:48 AM.

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    Nice Barb. Working good for me.

    Better get some extra cooling for the TZ server.

    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
    Last edited by Reverend; November 9th, 2004 at 11:56 AM.

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    Techzonez Governor Super Moderator Conan's Avatar
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    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.

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    Pipelining can be enable in Mozilla Suite too.
    Just check the two options in:
    Edit->Preferences->Advanced->HTTP Networking

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    Thanks Conan! I'm smoking now!!!

    Many thanks to egghead for the cool .sig

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    thanks conan....always thought that firefox was just a bit slower than ie...didnt know that it was universal until today...

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    Works quite a bit faster! thanks.

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    Great results.
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    ...not too sure what I've gawn an' bin and dun. But I've followed your instructions Conan.
    British Beer is so important, we can't let things that
    are more important interfere with it.

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

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    This is what works for me (may not for you) Cable~3000/256
    These settings will put additional load on web sites
    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");
    Last edited by lynchknot; November 9th, 2004 at 20:16 PM.

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    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.

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    all bets are off... TZ Veteran SupaStar's Avatar
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    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










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    Awesome. That speeded my browsing by a factor of 2 and took 1 minute to do. Would that everything in life were so easy

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    This extention will do the same

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

    Cody
    Last edited by cyoung1616; November 14th, 2004 at 17:54 PM.
    I'm never wrong, just misinformed !

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