Firefox users with broadband

I dont know if this has been posted before...but...

I found a cool tip to enhance your browsing speed. It's cut page load time in half for me.

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

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

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly 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.

browser.turbo.enabled True

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Forever Geek

I found it from somewhere else :- Oh well, sorry for being rude :-p I didn't claim it as my own.

woah, fast.

I mean, fucking zing.

woah.....that's excellent.

Nice, I'd read about pipelining but never seen it in action... kick ass!

wow thank you

oooh. not bad at all.

i'm curious about weather there's any negative effects, if it's faster something must be neglected now that's done normally, i wonder if it's anything that could damage or open up some kind of security gap.

nice tip
but i guess people running servers wont like it much

is there any docuentation which explains what all the setting do?

Hey, thats kinda cool. Thanks.

zoom zoom zoom...nice tip!

most excellent, thank you!

i think it worked

my question is, do those prefs disappear when you empty out your cache, cookies, history, etc. i do that every day because i like a clean system and i don't care about retyping passwords. will those prefs disappear like, say, google search filter prefs?

wow...that is pretty quick...and I'm an idiot.

Does the change stay when you close firefox and then reopen it later?

Occasionally you'll happen upon a small website with bandwidth restraints, where a browser making 30 requests at a time will trip some kind of regulator program that will deny access. Setting the request value to 400 or so might have the same effect on larger web pages.

Just something they do to avoid tech-questions from the non-computer-savvy.

Jury still out with me

Hung jury with me too -- I understand what its doing, but I can't say I'm noticing much of a speed boost.

Thanks though!

Yeah it does stay.

Thanks btw! I've noticed a speed boost! this is aweomse