Speed up your FireFox

Posted by geeknews at 3:48 PM on January 21, 2005

All you’ve got to do is type “about:config” into your address bar, wait for it to load, then alter the following entries: change “network.http.pipelining” to “true”, “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true” and lastly “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to 30, meaning it will be able to make 30 requests at once.

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From SpiderBin at 8:38 am on January 22, 2005
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From pdboddy at 9:25 am on January 22, 2005
GAH! I wish people would do a bit more research before posting this sort of information. Think about this line for a moment: ‘”network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to 30, meaning it will be able to make 30 requests at once.’

That means your browser will make 30 requests at once. Perhaps you will speed up your connection, if the site isn’t busy, but you will slow down that site. Now imagine a site that gets 10000 visitors a day. Instead of 10000 requests, it’ll get 300000.

So using this way to speed up Firefox, you greedy bastards, will start knocking sites offline as their servers get overwhelmed by unexpected requests.

Nice work.
From A Short Domain Name at 1:42 pm on January 22, 2005
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From geeknik at 3:32 pm on January 22, 2005
Speaking of not researching, setting the maxrequests to 30 will not do any good anyways, as the hard limit is 8, so anything over 8 will be ignored.
From Michael Martelli Jr.'s Blog at 6:24 pm on January 22, 2005
Make Firefox Faster

Geek News Central has a way for us to speed up firefox. I have done some similar things to my Firefox configuration before via Secrets of Firefox 1.0 by Brian Livingston but, these new tips should improve surfing ability. The…
From Michael Martelli Jr.'s Blog at 6:24 pm on January 22, 2005
Make Firefox Faster

Geek News Central has a way for us to speed up firefox. I have done some similar things to my Firefox configuration before via Secrets of Firefox 1.0 by Brian Livingston but, these new tips should improve surfing ability. The…
From Michael Martelli Jr.'s Blog at 6:24 pm on January 22, 2005
Make Firefox Faster

Geek News Central has a way for us to speed up firefox. I have done some similar things to my Firefox configuration before via Secrets of Firefox 1.0 by Brian Livingston but, these new tips should improve surfing ability. The…
From del.icio.us WebCites at 11:19 am on January 23, 2005
Speed up your FireFox

This particular fix can also hose your network if things get out of control. In the past, has been noted to slow down performance in some cases….
From Kevin C. Tofel at 9:07 pm on January 23, 2005
There is an easier way to do the same thing using the “Tweak Network Settings” extension in Firefox. Using the manual “about:config” is nice because you can see all of the various settings in Firefox, but if you are looking to just speed up your browsing, try the extension.

See: http://kctofel.blogspot.com/2005/01/tweak-firefox-into-fire-fast.html

KCT
From The Mediaburn Radio Weblog at 8:58 am on February 3, 2005
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