SteamAhead Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 For any of you that use Firefox (and have not seen this hack)for your internet browsing, here's a little hack that will speed it up. Seems to work for me This hint has been taken from: http://xbox.hackaday.com/ (some great bits 'n bobs on there) Useful guide on speeding up firefox for broadband users. basically after getting to the hidden config settings you set the browser to request more data that it usually does. 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: 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Initial use does seem a bit quicker, but could be my proxy, but there is definitely some speed increase. Cheers for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamAhead Posted December 4, 2006 Author Share Posted December 4, 2006 No probs. Must warn anyone that goes on the hackaday website..... every electronic thing in my house I now want to rip apart and hack p.s This is good though: http://xbox.hackaday.com/2004/10/31/build-your-own-batphone/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rik Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Just done this, noticable improvement Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angarak Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Isnt that basically what the FasterFox extension for Firefox does? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamAhead Posted December 5, 2006 Author Share Posted December 5, 2006 Isnt that basically what the FasterFox extension for Firefox does? Your probably right , just fell upon the tweek by chance really. I'm always getting side tracked while net surfing. Must admit not checked on the latest firefox extensions in a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLicense Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Cool! Seems a lot faster! I'm off to do a speed check.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angarak Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 MrSupra, Your tweaks probably better than Fasterfox ...but I've read that Fasterfox also put extra strain on the servers you visit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve spedd Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 nice one thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamAhead Posted December 5, 2006 Author Share Posted December 5, 2006 MrSupra, Your tweaks probably better than Fasterfox ...but I've read that Fasterfox also put extra strain on the servers you visit. Mmmm still, might give Fasterfox a little try... Just gonna do a speed test on my Plusnet account (got few saved from last time) then off to bed. Have more of a play tomorrow (oops I mean later) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLicense Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 No speed increase according to plusnet for me.... definitely seems quicker though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamAhead Posted December 5, 2006 Author Share Posted December 5, 2006 No speed increase according to plusnet for me.... definitely seems quicker though. Yep think your right, just had a go as well. Really hard to tell on the speed test. Anyways night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdavies Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 30 connections will speed things up a bit for some sites. Especially ones with annoying ads or lots of off-site referenced images/frame content as you don't get such a nasty experience with the odd one or two slow loading bits of the page holding you up so much (FF will block loading content with its default config when waiting on 4-5 items from other pages/sites - with 30 set, this is less likely to ever happen). Nice little tweaks. Edit: Unlikely to physically speed up your download speeds per se, just makes the browsing experience a bit nippier in some circumstances Edit Edit: Just thought, more of a parallel request for 30 bits of info off the page rather than the 4-5 that you get normally. People with phat connections will be loving this tweak People with the servers hosting the sites you browse will not Mwuahahah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogmaw Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Yes I think it works too I will check with my computer spod tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangerous brain Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 OK well its seems significantly quicker on my machine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ark Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 This is a common trick used by proxy servers to download faster. It only works if you have more bandwidth available to you, by utilising it slightly more efficiently. It's all smoke and mirrors really...it just depends where your bottleneck is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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