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{I}{K}{E}
06-08-2005, 07:58 PM
This tutorial will enable some features in firefox that will allow pipelining to increase speed in firefox. It opens more connections to browse tons faster.


1. Open about:config

In the title bar of FireFox Open the page "about:config"

2. Locate the Strings

Now you need to find the following strings/options

You can find the correct ones easily by using the filter bar at the top.

Type -> network.http

It should leave you will only a few results. Now find the following.

network.http.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
network.http.proxy.pipelining

Network.http.pipelining -> Double Click to Set to True
Network.http.pipelining.maxrequests -> Double Click and Set to 30
Network.http.proxy.pipelining -> Double Click to Set to True


3. Right click anywhere and hit NEW -> INTEGER

Interger name: nglayout.initialpaint.delay
Value: 0

This will stop the delay that firefox takes before loading a page.

4. Search for:
browser.display.show_image_placeholders -> Double Click to Set to False



Original posted on Neowin, tweaked by {I}{K}{E} for FST

accat13
06-08-2005, 09:04 PM
Nice sticky IKE Maybe you could add the MIRC cut paste fix to this as well.Can never remember it. :)

madden player
06-23-2005, 01:55 AM
There are several other tweaks you can make to Firefox that make browsing faster :cool:

http://www.tweakfactor.com/articles/tweaks/firefoxtweak/4.html :01:

There is also browser.turbo.enable in the about:config tweaks.
http://img201.echo.cx/img201/2970/browserturboenabledusersetbool.th.jpg (http://img201.echo.cx/my.php?image=browserturboenabledusersetbool.jpg)

mufaa
01-28-2006, 06:58 AM
For less advance users, u cld try FasterFox extension which allows u to change the very settings mentioned in this guide and other options too.

stillalive
01-29-2006, 01:32 AM
There are several other tweaks you can make to Firefox that make browsing faster :cool:

http://www.tweakfactor.com/articles/tweaks/firefoxtweak/4.html :01:

There is also browser.turbo.enable in the about:config tweaks.
http://img201.echo.cx/img201/2970/browserturboenabledusersetbool.th.jpg (http://img201.echo.cx/my.php?image=browserturboenabledusersetbool.jpg)

thanks! trying those settings right now

nakro
05-01-2006, 06:56 AM
very nice thanks !

cooliceman
05-25-2006, 10:30 AM
eheheh... i dont know the effect but i tried it... heheh..

Cross finger...

enjoy_with_me
08-20-2006, 01:44 AM
many thnx

SHRUDE
08-21-2006, 09:23 AM
Coool, seems most of these were enabled in my about:config anyways , but my max connections were set to 40 and i had to set false to the image placeholders.

Thanks!

CxTurbo
08-21-2006, 07:09 PM
Thanks,

Helped me out. Some I knew some I did not.

Again thanks for taking the time!

CxTurbo

viet
08-22-2006, 09:33 PM
thanks

thesixthsensor
08-22-2006, 09:43 PM
awesome thanks

elknetld2kil
08-24-2006, 06:53 PM
My problem with FF is that sometimes it takes a minute for it to start.

djlove
08-27-2006, 04:37 PM
thax a lot

aburyach
09-05-2006, 10:00 PM
Sweet. thnx

NetSpider
09-09-2006, 03:58 PM
Awesome , thanks !

Chartrukian
10-14-2006, 02:15 AM
Great tut

thkx

xmykro
10-14-2006, 04:51 AM
Wow, nice. This worked very well.

tjewell71
10-16-2006, 01:05 PM
does firefox really help all that much?

_invisible_
10-16-2006, 09:15 PM
thanks dude it realy help me

mert1
10-17-2006, 11:09 AM
thanks

kukula1
10-17-2006, 03:18 PM
that's awesome man. thanks alot, been looking for this.

god blass ya :w00t:

nORE
10-18-2006, 02:32 AM
thanks :D

JamesBlunt
10-21-2006, 07:14 PM
great tips thnxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

100%
10-21-2006, 07:18 PM
Why not simply use fasterfox extension ?
http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/

{I}{K}{E}
10-21-2006, 09:13 PM
Why not simply use fasterfox extension ?
http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/

the more extentions you use the slower firefox becomes.

100%
10-21-2006, 09:29 PM
True
but
Still

BIRANCHI
10-22-2006, 11:55 AM
Thanks For Ur Valuable Tips , Want More Of It

Kantona
10-25-2006, 01:24 AM
Thanks :) will use these tips

Kruger
10-28-2006, 09:59 AM
Thanks, will try this out! ;)

peat moss
10-28-2006, 07:11 PM
Can't help but think where's the FireFox 2 tips ? Was wondering if anyone had some "about config." tweaks for FF2 ?


I see Fasterfox 2.0 is out for FF2 now . Released 10/30/06 . :)


https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1269/

{I}{K}{E}
11-01-2006, 07:24 PM
Can't help but think where's the FireFox 2 tips ? Was wondering if anyone had some "about config." tweaks for FF2 ?


I see Fasterfox 2.0 is out for FF2 now . Released 10/30/06 . :)


https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1269/

tweaks for FF2.0 are all the same.

Wolfmight
11-02-2006, 03:59 PM
Fasterfox 2.0 actually slows down my website display speed. I tried all the different options and I get the fastest time without the add-on enabled.

btw IKE, I just saw that movie I was in with Elisha Cuthbert. It was Dark, but she was Hot...none the less. The name of the flick was "The Quiet". It's VERY dark for a movie though, so I think the critiques started forming a conga-line during the screening.
http://www.joblo.com/newsimages1/the-quiet-still.jpg

grchl3
11-10-2006, 11:48 PM
thanks for the great tips.

tut123408
11-17-2006, 12:06 AM
firefox gets much faster when this is set

Skillz808
11-20-2006, 12:07 AM
thank you much for this helped me out alot.

gatorade
11-21-2006, 03:04 AM
hope it really works...

madden player
11-30-2006, 12:57 AM
adding these performance related tweaks (forgot where I found 'em) to my user.js (http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/edit#user) file made the biggest speed performance boost for me - using firefox 2.0 btw

// Performance-related
user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", false);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 20000); // default: -1 (calculate dynamically); bug 105344
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.enable", true); // default: true
user_pref("browser.chrome.image_icons.max_size", 0); // default: 1024; max img dimension in either direction for which a thumbnail favicon will be created; bug 304561
user_pref("browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers",0); // default: -1 (calculate dynamically); bug 292965
user_pref("browser.sessionhistory.max_entries", 10); //default:25
user_pref("config.trim_on_minimize", true); // default: true
user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true); // default: true
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 750000); // default: 3 * notify.interval; bug 76722
user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 8191); // default: 8191; bugs 25509, 77540
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5); // default: -1 (never)
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000); // default: 120000; bug 72138
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true); // default: true
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000); // default: 750000; bug 76722
user_pref("layout.reflow.async.duringDocLoad", true); // default: true
user_pref("layout.reflow.timeslice", 250000); // default: 1000000
user_pref("network.dns.disableIPv6", true); // default: false; bug 68796
user_pref("network.dnsCacheEntries", 50); // default: 20
user_pref("network.dnsCacheExpiration", 3600); // seconds; default: 60
user_pref("network.http.keep-alive.timeout", 60); // default: 300
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 100);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 20);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 20);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 10);
user_pref("network.http.request.max-start-delay", 0); // default: 10
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 30);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.redirection-limit", 5); // default: 20
user_pref("network.prefetch-next", false);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0); // default: 250
user_pref("network.http.sendRefererHeader", 0); // default 2
user_pref("viewmanager.do_doublebuffering", true); // default: true; bug 169483

koldy
11-30-2006, 12:25 PM
thax a lot

Kytter
11-30-2006, 07:17 PM
I think on 2.0 its by default .. :]
thanks btw.

madden player
11-30-2006, 08:09 PM
I think on 2.0 its by default .. :]
2.0 has the user.js (http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/edit#user) file by default, or some of the advanced tweaks already optimized by default ?

I can use the pref Network.prefetch-next (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.prefetch-next) as an example. By default, this annoying prefs value is true, i had to set it manually to false.

Kytter
12-01-2006, 02:52 PM
ok, its isnt by default .. you need to make it by yourself, its easy.

LilAznAccommodator
12-01-2006, 04:27 PM
@MaddenPlayer: Thanks for that testing out that config as I haven't really messed around with the settings in a while.

madden player
12-03-2006, 04:31 PM
Tweaking firefox performance/appearance

Customizing Mozilla
http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html

Post your userFiles! - MozillaZine Forums
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=244616

TweakGuides.com - Firefox Tweak Guide
http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_1.html

Ad Blocking

Adblock Filterset Generator (beta)
http://adblock.jonasjohn.de/

Gozer.org: Mozilla: Ad Blocking
http://www.gozer.org/mozilla/ad_blocking/

Blocking ads on the Internet with a list of ad server hostnames and IP addresses
http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/

the possibilities r practically endless, happy tweakin, happy browsing

:01:

Slashi
12-05-2006, 01:32 AM
thx for tweaks and the AddOns !
Now FireF0X is my N1 :)

tinker77
12-06-2006, 07:06 AM
Sweet, thanks for the info. Anyone knows of really good " can't live without" extensions?

btqfas
12-06-2006, 01:53 PM
Thank you, these are useful thingies. :)

kazaaman
12-06-2006, 08:57 PM
Can't live without Extensions are FlashGot and Greasemonkey!

FlipRising21
12-07-2006, 03:27 AM
yea same i love extensions preciate the guide i dont know if there any imporvement but i think it will give me a placebo effect =)

scarecrownz
12-15-2006, 07:52 AM
thanx a lot, this is much better :w00t:

nfsbeeddd
12-16-2006, 10:41 PM
wooow so good thNK YOU

Alien5
12-16-2006, 11:15 PM
thanks its alot faster.

popan
12-19-2006, 05:31 AM
very nice thanks

docabby
12-19-2006, 08:51 AM
thanks....!

mpli
12-19-2006, 05:15 PM
Thanks. I am new to firefox. I got faster performance in firefox over IE even without the tweaks. Now it's flying with the tweaks.

ngs_raider
12-23-2006, 03:25 AM
tweaked it and it seems quite faster than before. thanks!

FaceX2
12-23-2006, 11:32 AM
Thanks,

Will be trying some of these out

djoser
12-26-2006, 12:24 PM
Much faster!

WhoopDeDoo
12-27-2006, 12:33 AM
Very cool, thanks!

C[a]N
12-27-2006, 08:50 PM
if u use any linux distro try swiftfox...

dcycos
12-27-2006, 10:22 PM
if u use any linux distro try swiftfox...

yes for linux swiftfox is cool

bezel
12-30-2006, 11:01 PM
great tips thnx

biggrizz
01-06-2007, 10:05 AM
Thank you for this.
Will give it a try.
:D

shonuff
01-11-2007, 03:52 PM
Very good guide, thanks.

drago2007
01-13-2007, 07:56 PM
Great info, thanks!

yaheard
01-18-2007, 08:50 PM
Thanks to everyone who posted links, very helpful! Gonna be a late night

andreqm
01-22-2007, 05:46 PM
Cool tutorial, I had no idea about these settings...
Lets see how it improves the speed here...

smirnoff
01-26-2007, 11:59 AM
thnx man

R3n3g4D0
01-29-2007, 07:49 PM
idoes it really work? i mean why the firefox programmers would use that default setting if it's slower.

Dooskey
02-01-2007, 09:03 PM
Thanks for the tips - much appreciated.

shazzar
02-02-2007, 07:43 PM
Great info. Thanks!

pancho
02-18-2007, 08:59 PM
Thank you for this help

djxkape
03-04-2007, 10:43 PM
thanks this will help

ZiP90
03-15-2007, 11:35 AM
Yeah! This is what i wanted! Thx!

lxgamer
03-15-2007, 05:50 PM
Good Work! thanks,

monk3y
03-16-2007, 05:53 PM
thanks a lot nice guide

Hiii
03-29-2007, 06:15 PM
I Love Firefox ... Thank You ...

adibdimitri
03-30-2007, 08:12 PM
woot! thanks! that's great, especially the page delay thing.

RUSSEL
04-04-2007, 07:42 PM
Thanks for the info,grt work.

Funnyguy
04-10-2007, 10:06 AM
Thank you for the Tutortial, my FF is opening up lightening quick, cheers

David™
04-10-2007, 12:07 PM
FF Kicks A$$ and ^Hello FG

bananawombat
04-28-2007, 03:04 AM
thanks for the info. This has made a big difference to my Firefox speed.

ven0m
04-28-2007, 03:30 AM
Don't need to go through the hassle of doing all this.. Just download the FF add-on plugin called FasterFox... does all of this for you and more! :)

TheRealGiant
04-30-2007, 10:23 AM
Thanks for this, hope it brings some extra speed. :)

slim150
04-30-2007, 10:04 PM
Don't need to go through the hassle of doing all this.. Just download the FF add-on plugin called FasterFox... does all of this for you and more! :)

FasterFox blows!!!! Talk about a waste of resources. When you are at a website, it secretly follows links on the page downloading all the content -- assuming that you'll click them. I don't like that idea, and quite a waste of processing power.

SAM
09-08-2007, 07:22 PM
good work thanks

sexydingo
09-09-2007, 04:57 AM
Don't need to go through the hassle of doing all this.. Just download the FF add-on plugin called FasterFox... does all of this for you and more! :)

I second this.

fantasyx72
09-12-2007, 01:24 AM
i change it too red

Sawyer2020
09-12-2007, 02:35 AM
thanks for this guide

kelly338825
09-30-2007, 08:29 PM
Thanks for this guide. I just cleaned my computer earlier, and now after seeing your guide I also have tweaked firefox. I didnt know about some of these options before.Thanks.

NDroid
10-01-2007, 10:36 AM
Great tutorial, helped me a lot.

aysomc
10-03-2007, 10:31 AM
did this a while ago, you can really feel the difference. i would use it even if it was slow though, i hate IE.

whiteacid
11-12-2007, 10:05 PM
Thanks. I knew most of them but I'd forgot to do any of it on my laptop :)

munkyboy04
11-12-2007, 10:12 PM
I didnt know you could do that. Thats cool really notice the difference.

why doesnt it install like this?

poulpe
11-19-2007, 03:20 AM
thanxxx,
not sure I can feel the difference but let's see

MaaxHimself
11-19-2007, 03:34 AM
Nice tut {I}{K}{E} (http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/../members/ike-10283)
Saw this awhile ago, but just tried it for myself.
Thanks

Aaxel21
11-25-2007, 12:12 PM
Nice. Thanks for the info.

mera
12-04-2007, 06:35 PM
It really worked. Thanks a lot!

Magnum
12-06-2007, 05:04 PM
Nice job.Thanks a lot for the info!!!!

LRm
12-13-2007, 09:23 AM
Nice tutorial.....

hbkwarez
12-13-2007, 12:00 PM
kwel

spacemen22
12-15-2007, 09:04 AM
Didn't notice a difference in speed like everyone else did, but thanks anyways. Probably because my cpu usage is always under 5%. Of course I bet I could find a way to fix that searching around the forum here. This place is awesome!

DavidJCD
12-15-2007, 11:42 PM
Cool!!
very nice! thanks

supermoe
12-16-2007, 12:43 AM
many tnx

cbzakis
12-21-2007, 04:09 PM
thanx!!
I already knew some of them but others...:D

LRm
12-22-2007, 05:11 AM
now, let's tweak! :D

RAW666
01-27-2008, 04:55 PM
I notice a minor difference on some sites that used to be slower, maybe i will notice a bigger difference over time.

Thanks a lot.

lordrohith
01-27-2008, 05:56 PM
The fasterfox extension does this I think..

spacemen22
01-28-2008, 01:04 AM
Alot of times when I try to go to a website with firefox, it just stays loading. Often I have to click the refresh button ALOT with firefox to load the whole web page.

I can't be the only to be experiencing these problems...anyone have trouble like this?

ktasera
01-28-2008, 01:39 AM
Yeah, I've had that problem before. I'm not sure you can blame firefox though.

Fasterfox extension worked really well, thanks for the suggestion.

sefo
01-28-2008, 05:48 PM
thanks dude its pretty useful

sefo
01-28-2008, 05:48 PM
thanks dude its pretty useful

yuris
01-30-2008, 03:39 PM
thanks x 999999999 :D

youkorea
01-31-2008, 06:25 AM
oh, good

axlrose17
02-01-2008, 01:43 AM
nice tweak...

suppie727
02-20-2008, 09:56 AM
omg...thanks...just did it...works like magic

NorBis
02-21-2008, 02:00 PM
very nice thanks !

r0sWell
03-05-2008, 04:46 AM
very interesting.
just applied the tweaks, hehe :-)

Magnum
03-05-2008, 07:49 PM
Great tips.Thanks a lot for this!

Quarter
03-06-2008, 06:07 PM
Very helpfull thanks!

Disme
03-19-2008, 09:14 AM
Anybody having trouble with Firefox sometimes consuming heaps of memory.

What sometimes happens is when you minimize Firefox it stops consuming memory, however when you maximize it again the memory usage will increase, sometimes even doubling.

To prevent this you only have to make a small adjustment:
1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config (http://about%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:config), press Enter.
2. Right-click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter "config.trim_on_minimize" (without "") and
press Enter.
4. Select True, press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox and it should be fixed.

Worked fine for me.
;)

(I)
03-19-2008, 06:52 PM
Yeah thanks man

toperete
03-20-2008, 04:07 PM
Anybody having trouble with Firefox sometimes consuming heaps of memory.

What sometimes happens is when you minimize Firefox it stops consuming memory, however when you maximize it again the memory usage will increase, sometimes even doubling.

To prevent this you only have to make a small adjustment:
1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config (http://about%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:config), press Enter.
2. Right-click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter "config.trim_on_minimize" (without "") and
press Enter.
4. Select True, press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox and it should be fixed.

Worked fine for me.
;)

thanks for the info.