Speedier FireFox

[Ioman]

http://forevergeek.com/open_source/make_firefox_faster.php

They have a trick that lets you speed up FireFox, let me know if it works guys.

Found this through HardOCP.com

[ECA]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20453

about:config is the name..

[ECA]

What,
No comments???
No accolades??
We both find a great thing, and no body even notices???
15 reads??

[znaps]

I read it on Anandtech weeks ago :shrug: and I think the Anandtech thread mentioned more items to change than just 3.

It made a clear difference for me on a Cable net connection.

[spankers]

Page rendering speed is up. Firefox on Linux...

[spankers]

Also there is a Firefox extension that does most of your network tweaks for you without going to about:config....

The extension name is Tweak Network and is available at
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=Windows&category=Miscellaneous&numpg=10&id=327

[ECA]

I TEND to want to KNOW what tweaks are being made also...as the comment says..

[dang]

seems faster to me. I like it

[spankers]

I TEND to want to KNOW what tweaks are being made also...as the comment says..

It does tell you when you configure the extension...
http://www.bitstorm.org/extensions/tweak-screenshot.

The only thing it doesn't do is change the rendering delay
(nglayout.initialpaint.delay).

[Archon]

also be aware that this doesn't always make things go faster, it will actually bog smaller servers down to the point that you'll want to open up IE and use that.

[llbbl]

Firefox has a couple of hidden network settings. With this extension, you can tweak these settings, and you might be able to speed up the loading of web pages. You can also increase the maximum number of simultaneous downloads from a site (the default is only four).

Instead of changing each setting, you can also choose one of two profiles. The Power profile increases the maximum number of connections and turns on pipelining. The Default profile will reset the settings to the save, default values.

The Tweak Network Settings extension is tested with Firefox 0.9 and 1.0.

http://www.bitstorm.org/extensions/

What is HTTP pipelining?

Normally, HTTP requests are issued sequentially, with the next request being issued only after the response to the current request has been completely received. Depending on network latencies and bandwidth limitations, this can result in a significant delay before the next request is seen by the server.

HTTP/1.1 allows multiple HTTP requests to be written out to a socket together without waiting for the corresponding responses. The requestor then waits for the responses to arrive in the order in which they were requested. The act of pipelining the requests can result in a dramatic improvement in page loading times, especially over high latency connections.

Pipelining can also dramatically reduce the number of TCP/IP packets. With a typical MSS (maximum segment size) of 512 bytes, it is possible to pack several HTTP requests into one TCP/IP packet. Reducing the number of packets required to load a page benefits the internet as a whole, as fewer packets naturally reduces the burden on IP routers and networks.

HTTP/1.1 conforming servers are required to support pipelining. This does not mean that servers are required to pipeline responses, but that they are required to not fail if a client chooses to pipeline requests. This obviously has the potential to introduce a new category of evangelism bugs, since no other popular web browsers implement pipelining.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/pipelining-faq.html