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Xeroid
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2025 1:11 pm    Post subject: Speed up FireFox: Reply with quote
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1. Type "about:config" in the adress field.
2. Set the value of network.http.pipelining to "true".
3. Set the value of network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to "100".
4. Set the value of network.http.proxy.pipelining to "true"
5. Set the value of nglayout.initialpaint.delay to "0"
6. Set the value of network.dns.disableIPv6 to "true"
7. Set the value of network.http.max-connections to "48"
8. Set the value of network.http.max-connections-per-server to "16"
9. Set the value of network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy to "8"
10. Set the value of network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server to "4"

seems to really improve page loading times

*Setting a value of network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to "100" doesn't do a lot, its hardwired limit is 8.

*Set the value of nglayout.initialpaint.delay to "0":

By default, Firefox doesn't try to render a web page for 250 milliseconds, because it's waiting for data. If you add the code below to your user.js file, Firefox immediately tries to render the page, even without complete data. The drawback is on slower machines where doing a "reflow" may actually cause the total page load time to be longer.

http://texturizer.net/firefox/tips.html#oth_pipelining


I've tried this and it really speeds things along.
last edited 1/14/05 by Xeroid




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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2025 2:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
yea, I've been doing that with mozilla for a while.

If you want to spiffy up your fonts in Mozilla/Firefox while you have about:config open:

Change:
Code:
font.Freetype2.autohinted "false"

font.Freetype2.enable "false"

To:
Code:
font.Freetype2.autohinted "true"

font.Freetype2.enable "true"



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2025 2:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I don't think this works with firefox 0.9, the value 'nglayout.initialpaint.delay' does not exist, just so others on it know.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2025 2:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
WOW. Just made those tweaks to Firefox (0.8, Win2K), and did that EVER make a difference. And here I thought it was just the fact that Firefox wasn't terribly mature!
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2025 8:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
25ft wrote:
I don't think this works with firefox 0.9, the value 'nglayout.initialpaint.delay' does not exist, just so others on it know.


Yeah, I had heard that they had taken some of the choices out of 0.9. I'm running 0.8.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2025 10:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
'nglayout.initialpaint.delay' is deprecated in 0.9 and 0.9.1

You can add it. Wink

open about:config and right click any one of the preferences. From the context menu choose "New". Then select the type of new preference. String if its value will be textual, Integer if it will be a number, or Boolean if it will be true or false. In the dialog box, enter the name of the new preference.(make sure it's exactly right) Another dialog box then opens to enter the value.

Sometimes you need to exit and restart the browser for the edits to take effect.



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2025 11:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sweet! : )

{edit}

But, I didn't really notice a difference in speed, still cool!
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 10, 2025 12:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
25ft wrote:
Sweet! : )

{edit}

But, I didn't really notice a difference in speed, still cool!


It made quite a difference in mine. I've used it on my SuSE 9.1 install and on my employers laptop WinXP install. It made a noticable difference in both OSs. Smile
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 10, 2025 8:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
It was enough for me to notice an increase in speed.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2025 1:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
network.http.max-connections 48
network.http.max-connections-per-server 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 4

Actually, this is double the defaults.
This helped me.



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2025 9:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
DocZayus wrote:
network.http.max-connections 48
network.http.max-connections-per-server 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 4

Actually, this is double the defaults.
This helped me.

Thanks for that one. Now Prozilla works the way it's supposed to. Duh on me for not figuring that one out.
I also used the hosts file mr_ed posted a while back:
http://usalug.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.html?t=2436
Pages load a lot faster with that.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2025 7:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
These changes did good in my Firefox 0.9, including the add new "nglayout" that Germ gave out. But Germ, the 0.9 doesn't have the 'font:Freetype2.autohinted' in it. Can I add that the same way as the "nglayout", ordo you think it is just something that isn't in this version? JP



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2025 11:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm running Firefox 0.9.1 and it has it. I think it would be OK to add it. If it doesn't help, or makes your fonts worse, you can always delete it or set it to "false"



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2025 12:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I did it, but I didn't see any difference. I'll just leave it there, since it doesn't seem to be causing any grief. THX, JP



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2025 12:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
A lot of whether it makes a difference depends on your installed fonts and font server. Wink You're probably set up pretty good.



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