Thursday, March 10, 2011

Speed up FireFox by allowing Multiple Pipeline Downloads!

    If you have a broadband connection (and most of us do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads; which is very cool to do. This allows Firefox to load multiple things on a page at one time, instead of one at a time (SLOW!) (by default, it’s optimized for dialup connections). Here’s how:
  • Now type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Type “network.http” in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
  • Now set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
  • Now set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
  • Now set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
  • And also, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

5 comments:

  1. that was really helpful,tnx for sharing

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  2. Dammit, you beat me to this blog. I was going to do this for one of my next blogs XD

    Check my blog out at http://brbgoinginsane.blogspot.com

    Every Wednesday I will be doing a Tech related theme so hopefully you will check it out.

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  3. Nice! Do you know if there's anything similar for Chrome?

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  4. Some sites have a limit to simultaneous connections, so I'd suggest not going over 16 network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

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  5. Wow this really sped things up a notch.. Followed! alphabetalife.blogspot.com

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