Double browsing speed with firefox

[Wastedoo]

Just a great little tip for those that use firefox, i find this improves browsing speed by quite a noticeable margin.

1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit Enter.
(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 10.

This means it will make 10 requests at once.

3. Lastly, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0“;.(Zero)

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 faster now.
Optionally (for even faster web browsing) here are some more options for your about:config (you might have to create some of these entries by Right Click –> New– > Interger or String

network.dns.disableIPv6: set “false”
“content.notify.backoffcount”: set “5“
“plugin.expose_full_path”: set “true”.
“ui.submenuDelay”: set “0

Enjoy fellow twelvians

[Fork]

Yay let's rape servers!

[Clownshoes]

Most servers should block more than a couple requests anyway shouldn't they?

Also 8 is the highest value it will take, set it to 2000 and it will still be 8. Most servers will accept 4 maximum from the same ip anyway. And if you're loading multiple tabs from the same website their loading will be much more staggered (all connections being allocated to the first tabs).

[Hunterbob]

So firefox has a new interesting development in the works. Only in alpha stages as of yet. Has potential, both good and bad.

[Clownshoes]

Chrome needs to steal this asap.

[Cailaris]

Do want, NOW!

[Moradim]

Yeah that's quite fantastic
I'm glad they're addressing the issue of memory, since holy crap firefox is hueg

[Clownshoes]

Pfff memory is almost a non issue, shit is cheap.

[Hunterbob]

Over here, memory is pretty average in price. Not really cheap, but never really fluctuating either way.

But the general consumer market compared with Asia-Pacific seems very un-informed on stuff like that... And it seems to come from ignorance and laziness.

[Moradim]

I have 6 gigs so it's a meh issue for me. Seems to be peoples' only issue with Firefox however, and boy do they complain.

[Fork]

It was looking pretty meh but during the 'brainstorm' bit at the end there were some fantastic ideas being spurted out.

[Spoon]

Yeah I also thought it wasn't particularly interesting or useful for the most part.

Also yes, Firefox does indeed chomp on memory like a slut.

[Arlaris]

I had a couple of youtube vids buffering earlier and noticed that firefox was using 500-600 meg and the container-plugin(the exe that handles all plugins like flash, etc) was also about 500 meg. A web browser using that much ram is stupid, but to be expected when streaming 720p stuff on YT. I do like the way that plugins work now, much better that you only have to refresh some pages rather than reload your entire browser when flash or something else similar dies.