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Speed up your FireFox

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

The Inquirer

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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10 Comments

  1. From SpiderBin at 8:38 am on January 22, 2005

    Super speedy FireFox launch tip

  2. 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.

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  4. 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.

  5. 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…

  6. 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…

  7. 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…

  8. 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….

  9. 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

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