Tip to speed up firefox alot.

[lee551]

never seen it. thanks for posting it again

[Cl1mh4224rd]

Open 'about:config' in your address bar and then...

You don't have to worry about remembering all this if you just put this into the user.js config file in your profile directory:

For broadband:
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 64);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 21);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 100);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);

For dial-up:
user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", true);
user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);
user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 3000000);
user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 8191);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 32);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 8);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 4);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 750);
user_pref("plugin.expose_full_path", true);
user_pref("signed.applets.codebase_principal_support", true);

[peat moss]

just open another window (not tab) and make it so one is on top of the screen and one is on the bottom... that way you can see the instructions and set it up...

Oh great now you tell me! JK While I really like Firefox it seems to be a work in progress . I'm learning more all the time . Thanks mogadishu.

[mogadishu]

firefox is much better than IE in my opinion.. i would never ever use IE unless i absolutely have to. Also, whats wrong with a work in progress. Its not like Firefox is beta or something, its just being improved all the time, unlike IE which sucks as much as it did 5 years ago.

[colt45joe]

thx for postin this formula, it is much faster

and yeh IE sucks the nuts.

[scribblec]

anything to make these changes for us?

im lazy and stupid

[sArA]

@ scribblec...if I can do it anyone can...

It seems to have speeded things up a little....not blindingly noticeable but some pages seem definately quicker.

[ZaZu]

Works in Netscape too...

[tesco]

anything to make these changes for us?

im lazy and stupid

ya there's an extension.
or look at that other post here in internet world.