The Oldsmobile Connection

[Brando]

Here is a way to speed up Firefox if you'e on a broadband connection:

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows by double clicking on them:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages faster.

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[88 Coupe]

Hi Brando, hello all,

Quote: Here is a way to speed up Firefox ............ you'll load pages faster.

Brando: You Da Man! :lol:

Makes it work like all my paranoia programs are not there. :lol:

Regards, Norm

[Brando]

lol....I just did this fix to my firefox browser on my new computer, and it's amazing how much it speeds things up. :lol:

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[Brando]

Firefox was becoming painfully slow for me...I found myself resorting to internet explorer because it would open pages up A LOT faster :shock:

I originally thought my extensions might be causing trouble, so I removed them, but that didn't fix the problem.

I followed this site's instructions

Basically you export your bookmarks (if you have any), go to run and type
Quote: Firefox -P
And create a new profile to start up with, then import your old bookmarks, worked great for me.


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[85cieraholiday]

I just started using Fire Fox about 3 months ago, and I like it much better the internet explorer. Why is it faster the I.E if its the same computer and internet connection? I thought it being faster was my imagination (maybe it is!).

[Brando]

Well, I imagine the coding in firefox is much more efficient than internet explorer.

This particular topic shows you how to make firefox open more connections, in a sense creating more bandwidth for browsing. Same way those "Super fast speed download managers" work, they open as many connections as possible to a single server.

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