Supercharge Firefox!

Event · Dec 22, 2004

I found this on another forum. worked great for speeding up firefox

If you want to increase the speed of your browsing with Firefox, follow these simple directions:

Open Firefox.
Type "about:config" in the adress bar (no quotation marks).
Find these options, double click each one and change to below values:

network.http.max-connections: 48

network.http.max-connections-per-server: 24

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy: 12

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server: 6

network.http.pipelining: true

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 32

network.http.proxy.pipelining: true

Close Firefox and enjoy the faster browsing.

Supercharged! :cool:

Burnout · Dec 22, 2004

It worked!

Freaking awesome!

Noticed the biggest increase on DeviantART.

Blackbird. · Dec 22, 2004

Holy ****! I've never seen dA so fast in my life! Thank you EH! :cool:

Viper_Maniac · Dec 22, 2004

Wow. Definitely a nice improvement. Thanks EH.

Burnout · Dec 22, 2004

On a side note, those with slow computers might want to stay away from this.

Solid Fro · Dec 22, 2004

Easy one click patch:

http://www.luketrewin.com/

Apclps · Dec 22, 2004

Sweet

Take that IE!

Shannon · Dec 22, 2004

If you want you could step up one and use a custom user.js file for doing this. Paste those lines into Notepad and save it in: %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<randomfoldername>\. The beauty of this is you can store other settings in it (like download location, remove favicons, disable annoying Javascript like windows resizing, and the list goes on) and back it up in case you format/uninstall.

about:config is really only a one-time thing, whereas a user.js file can be used anywhere, anytime simply by putting it into Firefox's application data directory.

More Info on Config Files (ala user.js)
More Tweaks For All You Power Users

CDailey · Dec 22, 2004

Thanks! This is fast.

Mark T · Dec 22, 2004

The web page loading times were the only disappointing factor with Firefox. Now, that's sorted, it's better than ever.

toyomatt84 · Dec 22, 2004

Yeah, I've used this one before. It's a nice little tweak. After a while though, you've gotta check it to make sure the stats are still enabled. I've had FF reset them on me.

VT · Dec 22, 2004

Bloody hell this is fast as crap. I love this, thanks EH

pimp racer · Dec 23, 2004

Hey how do I get the Chrome CSS thing working? I follow the instructions but they didnt help very much still very confused. http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/edit#css

Blackbird. · Dec 28, 2004

Event Horizon
I found this on another forum. worked great for speeding up firefox

If you want to increase the speed of your browsing with Firefox, follow these simple directions:

Open Firefox.
Type "about:config" in the adress bar (no quotation marks).
Find these options, double click each one and change to below values:

network.http.max-connections: 48

network.http.max-connections-per-server: 24

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy: 12

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server: 6

network.http.pipelining: true

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 32

network.http.proxy.pipelining: true

Close Firefox and enjoy the faster browsing.

Supercharged!

I changed that 48 to 72 to see what happens and it appears slightly faster.

Blake · Dec 28, 2004

Hmmm, I'd done this before but all the values seem to have reset. I'll have to check it every now and then like toyomatt84 suggested.

Blackbird. · Dec 28, 2004

Mine stays enabled every day...

Blake · Dec 28, 2004

Maybe because I've had alot of errors and stuff lately and have had to reset alot of stuff.

Jimmy Enslashay · Dec 29, 2004

Yeah, I had to reset them the other day. Now I checked them just then, and it's reset again. Certainly strange. I even had the thing Shannon posted done on mine, and that reset. Weird. Someone should try and figure out what causes the reset. :grumpy:

EDIT: May have found a reason for the reset. If you have the user.js file (the one that Shannon linked to), this may be causing the reset. It will not affect the speed, though. According to Shannon, what happens is Firefox reads the user.js file instead of the about:config settings. Combine that with the fact that there is no previous user.js file. What I'm thinking is that it's not saving the about:config settings, because these have no priority over the user.js file. Blake, I believe, has the user.js file, and his settings are being reset.

toyomatt84 -- Do you, by any chance, have the user.js file?

Blake · Dec 30, 2004

Yeah, I think you are right, I have the user.js file and my values are reset -- I haven't had any improper shutdowns or anything either.

halfracedrift · Dec 30, 2004

Mine are staying.. after numerous rests..

Mr. Boy · Dec 14, 2005

Changed the values just as Event had posted them. And this has little effect. :indiff:

Maybe its the 56k dial-up connection.

Pebb · Dec 14, 2005

Or maybe you did the tweaking wrong.

Shannon · Dec 14, 2005

This "trick" is only really for broadband. It works my allowing Firefox to open more connections to a server and download more files at once.

DQuaN · Dec 14, 2005

Does it still work on FF 1.5?

Shannon · Dec 14, 2005

Yes. Here are some slightly modified values I threw together:

network.http.max-connections: 48
network.http.max-connections-per-server: 24
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy: 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server: 8
network.http.pipelining: true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 32
network.http.proxy.pipelining: true
nglayout.initialpaint.delay: 0

The last one is another tweak. nglayout is how long Firefox will wait until it starts rendering the page (by default it waits until some of the page has been downloaded before displaying it). Setting this value to zero negates that wait and begins rendering the page immediately. Doesn't actually speed up browsing, but makes it 'appear' faster.

livemusic · Dec 14, 2005

I think I did this before, but I'll try these new settings Shannon posted tonight.

Jondot · Dec 14, 2005

Decent! It's really quick

VIPFREAK · Dec 14, 2005

Shannon
Yes. Here are some slightly modified values I threw together:

network.http.max-connections: 48
network.http.max-connections-per-server: 24
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy: 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server: 8
network.http.pipelining: true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 32
network.http.proxy.pipelining: true
nglayout.initialpaint.delay: 0

The last one is another tweak. nglayout is how long Firefox will wait until it starts rendering the page (by default it waits until some of the page has been downloaded before displaying it). Setting this value to zero negates that wait and begins rendering the page immediately. Doesn't actually speed up browsing, but makes it 'appear' faster.

I don't know... I don't see that much of a difference?

:indiff:

I couldn't do the last one... nglayout.initialpaint.delay: 0 because there wasn't one. I tried to add it but it didn't look right

DQuaN · Dec 14, 2005

Do you have to restart FF afterwards? I don't notice much of a difference.

VT · Dec 14, 2005

I'm pretty sure that you would have to restart FF to notice any difference.

Supercharge Firefox!

Event

Zoom-zoom

Burnout

Blackbird.

Viper_Maniac

Burnout

Solid Fro

I told you so.

Apclps

Shannon

CDailey

Mark T

Puts the sex into Essex

toyomatt84

VT

pimp racer

Blackbird.

Blake

Blackbird.

Blake

Jimmy Enslashay

Fox

Blake

halfracedrift

Mr. Boy

Pebb

Shannon

DQuaN

Goat of the Year

Shannon

livemusic

Jondot

VIPFREAK

DQuaN

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VT

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