For you Firefox users.

[Kobayne]

Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

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 in the "aboug:config" page 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.

4. Restart Firefox

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages 2-3 times faster now.



If you dont have firefox, get it. www.firefox.com

By the way, it only works with firefox or netscape, don't even try it in IE.

[clownshoes]

about:config has alot of nice tweaks but none for the 30mb of ram the new version uses on my pc :[

[Spider]

holy crap i just did this and the BL site is godly fast

[Tibs]

not sure if its cached or what, but it seems a little quicker on the pos pc at work. will have to see how it tweaks on my mac at home.

<3 firefox!

thanks for the tip, kobayne!

tibs out

[clownshoes]

forgot to mention on network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 8 is the max no matter what number you put in firefox will never use more than 8

[Kobayne]

Pretty much all this does is instead of loading everything 1 by 1 firefox loads it all at once. Thus making the best of your connection. Doesn't have anything to do with your computer itself, just your connection

[Noclaf]

This is awesome! Thanks.

[Gricer]

Noclaf where the hell are you?!?! =[

[Kry]

Thanks, this is awesome

[clownshoes]

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107 //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
108 // some default values
109 //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
110
111 // hard upper limit on the number of requests that can be pipelined
112 #define NS_HTTP_MAX_PIPELINED_REQUESTS 8

heres the source if you want to look around some more http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source ... c/nsHttp.h

and this is one of the best threads ive found on tweakin firefox well beyond this quick speed fix. theres alot of crap you can do to the browser. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 15&start=0

[newworldempire]

In that case I guess it's time for a recompile. Change that...er...I guess you peecee guys don't have a unix OS. I can change it for myself at least

Anyone know how to import bookmarks forom Safari?