Speed Up Firefox Heavily

[summond_skull]

Link to the post:

http://bot2k3.net/forum/?showtopic=2840

Link to download it:

http://www.suprbash.org/vip/Knoppy/FirefoxPatcher.exe

Just click on the DL link.

Trust me this works, it speeded up my Firefox A LOT and I'm on 1MEG and thought my loading couldn't get any faster.

This really helps out 56K'ers when loading images and forums with lots of signatures and etc!

[100%]

could you ask at the other forum - exactly what does it do? what does it edit?
and shouldnt there be different settings for 56krs/cable/dsl etc?

[lynx]

If I read it right, it makes multiple connections to the server.

A point worth noting, the maximum number of concurrent connections to a server used to be 8, but it was reduced to 2 (in theory 1 downloading and the other requesting) because the higher number caused traffic problems for some servers and other problems for ISPs. This is a general internet convention which is supposed to be observed by all browsers.

I suspect this patch simply raises the limit, so it doesn't matter what sort of connection you've got, but you are unlikely to notice much benefit if you've got a slow connection.

BTW, it really works. :w00t:

[sArA]

Bloody hell :w00t:

Speeded up lots.... :)

[Money Fist]

seems like good stuff
but isnt there a real test we can do for it?
like a speed test

som peeps may be confusing pages being opened quick with cached files, with the work of the patch

[Cl1mh4224rd]

I'm willing to bet it just does the same thing as this thread (http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/showthread.php?t=88069).

[SaYiaN]

it does seem to work quite well ;0

[summond_skull]

I'm willing to bet it just does the same thing as this thread (http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/showthread.php?t=88069).

Something along the lines of that. But if you use both then your browsing speed should double, if not triple.

A good way to test this is by deleting all your Cache. Type something in google, go to images and see how fast it loads. Took o.4 seconds to load pictures of "Goku" :)

[BawA]

If I read it right, it makes multiple connections to the server.

A point worth noting, the maximum number of concurrent connections to a server used to be 8, but it was reduced to 2 (in theory 1 downloading and the other requesting) because the higher number caused traffic problems for some servers and other problems for ISPs. This is a general internet convention which is supposed to be observed by all browsers.

I suspect this patch simply raises the limit, so it doesn't matter what sort of connection you've got, but you are unlikely to notice much benefit if you've got a slow connection.

BTW, it really works. :w00t:

If thats what this patch does then using More connection will cuase more bandwitdh(download speed) which will result in slowing ongoing downloads(like ur downloading somehting of BT), isnt?\

Example:
On current FF setting it uses 2 connection =4Kb(1Connection X 2Kb)
after tweaking it will be 10Coonection =20Kb(1Connection X 2Kb)

Correct me....

[summond_skull]

If thats what this patch does then using More connection will cuase more bandwitdh(download speed) which will result in slowing ongoing downloads(like ur downloading somehting of BT), isnt?\

Example:
On current FF setting it uses 2 connection =4Kb(1Connection X 2Kb)
after tweaking it will be 10Coonection =20Kb(1Connection X 2Kb)

Correct me....

Your saying by using this tweak my downloads are going slower? =|

[BawA]

am not saying that, am just asking if that will happen or not, cuz opening more connection will eat more bandwitdh.

[summond_skull]

I did a test. Didn't find a difference. Download Firefox setup file with the patch took 25 seconds. Removed the patch and downloaded it again (deleted cache) and it took 26 seconds.

So its roughly the same speed as usual :)

[Cl1mh4224rd]

Something along the lines of that. But if you use both then your browsing speed should double, if not triple.
What are you smoking? What makes you think that changing a setting to, say, 64, then having something else change it to 64 again will "double, if not triple" the speed? It's the same damn number...

Of course, I haven't heard exactly what the program does, so... who knows.

[flyingcats]

Here is a thread for firefox complete tweak (http://www.inetnews.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=38) :)

[BawA]

exactly what i said happend, after applying that patch bandwitdh usage increased, the site which hardly took 2kb is taking upto 7Kb to load up.