Speeding up Firefox, will this work?

[Haloforce]

Someone Posted this in an videogame forum, i was wondering if it is safe/works.

" 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
receives."

[MichaelS]

I've done #1/#2 and actually set the number of requests to 99... I didn't notice any real performance gains, but theoretically it should yield faster loading times. The only exception that I can think of is that, if the webserver is set to only allow 3 concurrent connections, Firefox (or any browser setup like this) might get stuck.

I'm going to try #3 and see if it does anything...

EDIT: I didn't notice any significant gains with #3... It is harmless, so your best bet is to try it.

Mike

[glc]

http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?t=116418