LOTCB Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 This is really good, I notice a considerable difference. For this who do not use Mozilla Firefox yet, I STRONGLY recommend it! Mozilla Firefox How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity) Posted on 12/12/2004 12:45:50 PM PST by KoRn 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 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. If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oofrostonoo Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 (edited) Hey. I use firefox...I love it! Just dit the mod and it seems to work pretty well.... Edited December 15, 2004 by oofrostonoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheeps Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 FIREFOX RULES ALL I can't believe how much it helped in my last paper. I was analyzing eight films and had each film's imdb.com page open as a tab, it was SO easy to switch back and forth. I'm never touching IE again. Never. This browser is light years ahead of IE. Will try fix now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheeps Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 OH MY GOD THIS IS FAST Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOTCB Posted December 15, 2004 Author Share Posted December 15, 2004 (edited) FIREFOX RULES ALLI can't believe how much it helped in my last paper. I was analyzing eight films and had each film's imdb.com page open as a tab, it was SO easy to switch back and forth. I'm never touching IE again. Never. This browser is light years ahead of IE. Will try fix now... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I couldnt agree more mrsheeps. Little note about this: Maker sure you close any Firefox browsers you have running at the time and re-open. Also: If you are on a LAN at the office, you will notice a difference, but probably will notice more when working over DSL or Cable connections. Edited December 15, 2004 by Legend Of the Clown Banner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devils731 Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 Wow, it is noticeably much faster. -Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammyk Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 Oh noes! The pages on this site post too fast for me to finish typing a post. I hope this post goes through.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJayDevil Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 Firefox does rule all. It rules so much that PSU is telling all of its students to get rid of crappy IE and do it up Firefox style! Let the revolution begin!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruins4777 Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 Yeah, the mozilla revolution continues!!!!! The one thing about it though is on some message boards it loads slowly, because of the way it loads. Such as with coloradoavalanche site and the mapleleafs site. And to an extent this site at times. Its great when ur using bittorent, because it still goes so much faster. Its great too, because its great at blocking pop ups and i feel so much more safe with this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 (edited) Well, I'm willing to try anything non-Microsoft at least once... *downloads* Edit: Seems to work perfectly! Thanks LotCB! With that modification, it's much faster than Safari was. With the additional bonus that my bank accepts it as Netscape, so I can do my banking without IE. I can now get the last shred of Microsoft software off my machine. Goodbye IE. It's a good day. Edited December 16, 2004 by Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepperkorn Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 I love Firefox! It's great for smiley hunting while a-board They wont let us use it at work though... what gives? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammyk Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 I can now get the last shred of Microsoft software off my machine. Goodbye IE. It's a good day. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Just remember, not all sites will work with Firefox (yet?). So you probably shouldn't remove IE altogether. There is a Firefox extention where you can open a link in IE which is pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 (edited) I can now get the last shred of Microsoft software off my machine. Goodbye IE. It's a good day. Edited December 16, 2004 by Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LetsGoDevils Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 Love Firefox over Microsofts IE. Haven't missed it since I switched months ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djstubbs Posted December 19, 2004 Share Posted December 19, 2004 thanks for the info. my only prob. w/ firefox is that on certain websites it takes forever to load, and on others it loads faster. also: it doesn't load .mp3 files on websites and such that are streaming.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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