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Here is a small set of changes that has to be made to make your firefox browser upto ten-eleven- times faster. 1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit enter. Scroll down and look for the following entries(Go alpha-vise. Therefore, go straight to "N"): 2. Alter the entries as follows: Set "network.http.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 recieves. Try this and you can see the difference. This thing actually increases your FireFox speed or you can say your browsing speed over internet. "NOT YOUR INTERNET SPEED". It will make more and more internet resources to concentrate on Mozilla FireFox. Do tell me ... does this thing works??
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
posted by Tarun Gahlot @ 11:00 PM
8 Comments:
I don't believe in all these "accelerating" techniques. Had they(techniques) really been worth it and are so common, they'd definitely have been present in the version(s) we are using right now. Or if they're so very recent, expect them in the next update of the browser. So why waste your time in "about:configing" the Firefox?
Regards
(Siddharth Razdan)
Siddharth, if you don't believe in this "about:config" ,then please don't do it.Actually, this "about:config" thing is just a formality to make FireFox more faster. Mozilla's chaps don't make these changes because this makes user's INTERNET RESOURCES to concentrate more on FireFox,to which some users don't agree.So don't expect these upgrades in upcoming version of FireFox.
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The network pipelining works on a simple concept - while you are at a webpage, it anticipates that you will click more links on that page.So it goes ahead and "caches" (**) those link pages behind the scene before hand, so that when we click on a link on that page, it loads in a flash .
This method actually has 1 drawback - for users who are on dialups or broadband with limited/paid download limit, firefox will unnecessarily keep pipelining and caching more and more pages in the background than you actually need to.
Cool firefox add-ons and plugins : https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/
(Flashgot is pretty cool actually .. enables me to plug in my download accelerators to mozilla! )
(**) for concepts on cache and caching methodology, refer to any text which has operating system concepts. In simple words, the CPU caches relevant stuff from time to time, anticipating that you will require that data in the near future and hence that will be readily available in a "cache"
What actually are "Internet Resources" and what do you imply by saying "internet resources to concentrate on Mozilla FireFox", Tarun?
Regards
(Siddharth Razdan)
It is a simple concept, Siddharth. It is just like how your RAM works. Your RAM provides equal usage to every application (in Windows. Dunno about LINUX. And this is true to great extent), similarly your internet resources are divided to provide equal usage to every application which is onlineor using internet at that particular time.
If you don't agree to me then have your way then. I hope you can infer about "internet resources to concentrate on Mozilla Firefox"
Du Hast.
Download FasterFox from the Mozilla extensions site. Siddharth, dont think you're always right. We have all got to learn a lot. It does improve the performance of Firefox, unlike IE where we can go nowhere beyond the page that displays "This page cannot be found". lol.
I think I posted something exactly like that (only a little elaborately, but nonetheless, same) some few months back.
Anshuman, isn't what you have described is actually "prefetching"? Are prefetching and network pipelining same? I think they are somewhat different and not same, though I'm not sure what the difference is...
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