Speed Tweaks For Firefox

[fatalfury]

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!

[carloc]

Here you can find similar settings:
http://www.tweakfactor.com/articles/...oxtweak/4.html

[carloc]

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!

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

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:

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!

[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.

[carloc]

I got 2.2 seconds with the settings of carloc.

It sounds good, Veronica!

[tarun]

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!

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

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


Righto @ rik. Will be more careful now. sorry for inconvenience

[rik]

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

Thank You

[Conan]

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

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

[tarun]

Thanks Conan, there is a noticeable difference in speed. Does it enable prefetching of pages by default though?

[rik]

Good find. I'm using it now.

[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?

[Conan]

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.

[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...)