Wanna make firefox faster?

[JeeberD]

I saw this on another board and no one there had any problems with it. I've tried it out and it seems to work great...the speed increase is certainly noticeable...



Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

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. Double clik to change to true

2. Alter the entries as follows:

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 receives.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!

[DaddyTorgo]

thanks jeeber

[Barkeep49]

What a great tip. It's practically no waiting now. And to think I thought it was fast before.

Thanks

[Crapshoot]

nice- thanks Jeebs!

[JeeberD]

No prob fellas!

[spleen1015]

Yikes. That's great. Thanks!

[jbmagic]

awesome jeeber


i knew that awhile back, but forgot how to do it..


thanks

[Flasch186]

sweet

[Noop]

12,224 and you made one that has had an impact on me. I thank you Jeeb

[Craptacular]

cool

[atatange1]

Thanks. Great tip.

[Zippo]

nice! and there is no bad side to this?

[klayman]

nice! and there is no bad side to this?
Other than everybody kissing Jeeber's ass, you mean? :)

[cthomer5000]

nice! and there is no bad side to this?
When you hit the 1,000th website after doing this, your computer will explode.

[SackAttack]

I'm tempted to try this, but I'm afraid that it might screw up the updater for Gamenikki.

Is there a step-by-step for 'undo'? :D

[samifan24]

This is great and really does make Firefox significantly faster! Thanks for the tip!

[ISiddiqui]

Sweet! Thanks Jeeber!

[Zippo]

When you hit the 1,000th website after doing this, your computer will explode.
I knew nothing could be all good! Curse you JeeberD! :D

[Easy Mac]

If firefox loads slowly on opening it, just right click on the shortcut icon and select properties.

In the target, it should say: "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"

at the end of that (after the ") add a space, then type /Prefetch:1

I did this, and Firefox loads extremely faster.

[korme]

12,224 and you made one that has had an impact on me. I thank you Jeeb
haha..qotm material

[Tasan]

Holy freak this is fast now. Oh and I hate the timestamps, yada yada yada

[jbmagic]

wow its super fast


if you guys have a web site not come up..

try lowering the number for Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests"


but so far no problems at all

[SnowMan]

Very nice tip, thanks Jeeber!

[Neuqua]

I think somebody already posted this here a long time ago because for some reason I've already had the settings set this way.

or maybe I'm just that cool?

[jbmagic]

I think somebody already posted this here a long time ago because for some reason I've already had the settings set this way.

or maybe I'm just that cool?


maybe it was because of me :)

http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/%7Efof/forums/showpost.php?p=497843&postcount=40


of course its now version 1.0

[MikeVic]

Thanks Jeeber.

[Ben E Lou]

JeeberD, you are the wind beneath my wings.

[ISiddiqui]

Ah, potential side effects:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2004_12.html

That's Aso's Blog, who is one of the main developers of Firefox:

After seeing at least a couple dozen blog posts all referencing these changes to "speed up Firefox", I thought it would be worth a little explanation.

Yes, enabling HTTP pipelining can dramatically improve networking performance. The downside, and the reason it's not enabled by default, is that it can prevent Web pages from displaying correctly. If you've enabled this, and you find pages that aren't displaying correctly, please don't blame Firefox or the Web developer. It's probably the fact that you enabled an "unsupported" feature which is incompatible with some Web servers and proxy servers.

The second change, setting the initial paint delay at zero, may get you some content on the screen faster, but it's worth noting that it will dramatically slow down the time it takes the entire page to display. Here's what's going on. Gecko, Firefox's rendering engine, is trying to optimize between the cost of waiting for a bit more data versus doing more painting and reflows as new data comes in. Waiting a bit longer before it starts painting the page gives Gecko a chance to receive more content before chewing up CPU cycles to render and reflow the document. If you drop this value down to zero or near zero, that means you'll see the page start displaying a bit earlier, but not having received much data in that short interval, you'll have a lot more paint and reflow cycles to complete rendering of the page.

This one probably comes down to a combination of bandwidth, CPU speed, and personal preference. If it works for you, and you don't mind the side-effects, then great. Just note that what works for one person/system, may not work for another.

Yes, there are tuning change you can make (even at compile time, see Moox' optimized builds) that will dramatically alter the performance characteristics of Firefox. Feel free to experiment, but remember that most of the defaults are defaults for a reason. If your browser starts misbehaving or web sites look broken, it might be worth going back to default settings.

[Pyser]

despite the "side effects", i did this, too.

wow. just wow. awesome.

[Alf]

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 receives.
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Can't do that. I do have the "New" toggle button but can't create a new entry. bah, nevermind, after seeing the prvious post. I'll leave it that way. Thanks Jeeb

[FrogMan]

hrm, it may be time for me to give Firefox a whirl after all... You guys all sound very exited about the amazing speed...

FM

[kingfc22]

Thanks Jeeb. Just tried this out and it's great.

[jbmagic]

hrm, it may be time for me to give Firefox a whirl after all... You guys all sound very exited about the amazing speed...

FM

what great about firefox, it so tweakable

[FrogMan]

I had download FireFox the other day, had installed it, not played with it much until I saw there was a Hattrick extension (mention by Alf in this thread (http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/~fof/forums/showthread.php?p=702393#post702393)). So I decide to tweak it a bit. I found it similar to IE before I made the tweak presented by Jeebs in here, then boom, wow, amazing... I'm sold now, very fast!

To my fellow Hattrickers, check out the Foxtrick extension, it rocks!

Thanks for the tip Jeebs!

FM

[Icy]

Great tips, thanks.

I work daily with linux on console mode on my servers, but i'm not used to xwindow environment. Now I'm thinking now on switching to a full linux working environment on my desktop PC. For my daily web design work, i have found most of the tools i will need in linux, and for my servers admin it will be much easier as all them run already Fedora and i'm used to admin them.
Of course work also means to be able to play fof, ootp and fbcb :) have any of you tried them using wine?
Also can you compare thunderbird with outlook? can i export from outlook .pst files to thunderbird?
Any of you use linux daily in your main desktop? are you happy enought? what do you miss from winxp?
Thanks in advance.

[Mr. Wednesday]

My desktop at school is a dual-boot Linux and XP. I don't really find a significant difference between the two in most cases; Firefox and IE are comparable for web browsing and the only Windows apps I would normally run anyway are Office (where I will use the real thing in preference to OpenOffice).

[sterlingice]

Wait? There's a hattrick extension for Firefox? Sweet!

SI

[MikeVick7]

I just installed Foxtrick last night and haven't had a chance to play around with it too much. What I've noticed so far is that it lists the Hatstats in your match report and has a link to Hattrix live jr on your match page and you can download a skin as well...but what other features does it have?

[ZXTT]

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 receives.
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Can't do that. I do have the "New" toggle button but can't create a new entry. bah, nevermind, after seeing the prvious post. I'll leave it that way. Thanks Jeeb

You're almost certainly better off. I can't help chuckling whenever I see this suggestion. It's crazy. I set mine at work to 5000 (5 secs) on a P3-866. Web pages were loading slowly with the default 250ms because after 1/4 sec my CPU spiked to 100% as Firefox tried to continuously re-render the page. THAT made things MUCH slower because instead of getting new web page content, my computer was busy displaying incomplete content. Like I said, crazy. Notice, that the page will be displayed as soon as all the data is received, no matter how large this setting. And, having a high setting gets rid of the irritating jumping around while the page is being re-rendered over and over again.

This reminds me of the concept that appearing busy will satisfy many people, even if very little is being accomplished.

[Mr. Wednesday]

I just installed Foxtrick last night and haven't had a chance to play around with it too much. What I've noticed so far is that it lists the Hatstats in your match report and has a link to Hattrix live jr on your match page and you can download a skin as well...but what other features does it have?It will do substitute stars, with adjustments for quantity -- really handy for eyeballing larger totals and not having to count them out by hand (nice for national team matches for the average user). It will insert player faces in the match lineups if it "knows" the face from having visited the players page, which is kinda cool.

[MikeVick7]

Ahhh...another thing I just noticed was the hattrix backdraft link on everyone's team page. Now this I like. :)

[FrogMan]

Ahhh...another thing I just noticed was the hattrix backdraft link on everyone's team page. Now this I like. :)
yeah, was gonna mention that, pretty nifty :)

FM

[jbmagic]

Firefox version 1.04 is out