Firefox tweaks

[shadowbreaker513]

found this on another forum. worked great for speeding up firefox

If you want to increase the speed of your browsing with Firefox, follow these simple directions:

Open Firefox.
Type "about:config" in the adress bar (no quotation marks).
Find these options, double click each one and change to below values:

network.http.max-connections: 48

network.http.max-connections-per-server: 24

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy: 12

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server: 6

network.http.pipelining: true

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 32

network.http.proxy.pipelining: true

Close Firefox and enjoy the faster browsing.

[TennBikeBerk]

Is there any downside to doing what you have listed?

[shadowbreaker513]

none that i have found

[Carpedebass]

Wow! Really speeds things up!

[greg20]

Thanks... looking good here so far!

[a_rele]

works great.. thanx shadowbreaker513

[Punked Out Comp]

Just did it. Where should I expect to see a change?

[mikeL]

Applied these to Mozilla, and they work equally as well.

thanks for the tip

Mike

[aym]

Originally Posted by punked out comp Just did it. Where should I expect to see a change?

Loading speed, especially pages with too many images.

[Punked Out Comp]

Originally Posted by aym_7 Loading speed, especially pages with too many images.

Isnt that more what your isp does as oppposed to your browser?

[mrmister1]

It has to do with both.

[aym]

Originally Posted by punked out comp Isnt that more what your isp does as oppposed to your browser?

This increases the limit on the number of open connections to a server, which speeds things up, but puts more load on the server. More connections => More downloads => Faster browsing.

[Punked Out Comp]

What if you were to make the settings even higher?

[aym]

More connections means more load on the server, I suggest you don't increase the numbers any more unless you usually open very large numbers of tabs. The majority won't find any difference between these numbers and higher numbers I think.

[Punked Out Comp]

I sometimes have 12-20 tabs open. Is that what you mean by a large number of tabs?

[mbossman2]

be very careful about doing this on a company network...you will increase the amount of traffic on the network and will set off alarms at the network management console. it will pick up the spike in network traffic (for no apparent reason) and may flag it as a potential security breach. It will probably drive the IT guys nuts as they try to figure out why and unhappy IT guys are not fun guys.

what you are doing is increasing the number of sessions that the browser will keep active at any given time rather than dropping them when they are inactive (invisibly to you). The more sessions that are active the more packets sent to maintain the connections and the more traffic the external sites have to deal with.

[shadowbreaker513]

^^exactly why I don't do it on the computers with firefox at school.

[Cricket]

I did these tweaks on one of my computers this morning and didn't notice any difference in browser performance at all.

Cricket

[shadowbreaker513]

I mainly notice the difference on things like forum site loading time which has many images loaded from different sites. cut my normal 2-3 second loading time to 0

[Redfallon]

biggest performance increase (especially for sites you visit often) is adblock everything ya can, even normal images ya don't wanna see Then you only get the content ya want.

[Lord Prism]

VERY NICE


Much Faster on my PC!

[RoyalT]

Good post Shadowbreaker, love the tweaks! Now when I load into forums, it comes up instantly...and I have cable..so my web surfin is a breeze

[mystvearn]

Originally Posted by aym_7 More connections means more load on the server, I suggest you don't increase the numbers any more unless you usually open very large numbers of tabs. The majority won't find any difference between these numbers and higher numbers I think.

Some site are picky, and will ban me for a month if I did this. I think its another solution to the famous DAP

[uologan]

Originally Posted by TennBikeBerk Is there any downside to doing what you have listed?

i dont know if www.paradoxsector.com is where you got the initial info from but i did find this on the site as far as the negatives go

these settings make you download sites considerably faster, BUT put a great overload on the sites you go to. This really means nothing other then the fact that anyone else browsing will just go slower and you will absorb their speed.

[ZeratulsAvenger]

I didn't see much of an increase, but I guess I can't really since every page I go to loads fast enough for me... Mostly PC Mech is all I go on the net for these days... How I spend hours at the computer is still beyond me

[xiled]

I haven't seen much of an increase either? Usually loads fast enough anyways.

[GhostRecon]

I didn't notice any speed increase at all. I'm assuming that these settings are supposed to do the same job as DAP, search for other availible download mirrors(in this case open more bandwidth use for browser?) I didn't find any download speed with DAP and I can't notice any difference with Mozillas site loading. Did I do something wrong?

[J1978]

Originally Posted by shadowbreaker513 found this on another forum. worked great for speeding up firefox If you want to increase the speed of your browsing with Firefox, follow these simple directions: Close Firefox and enjoy the faster browsing.

Would it slow download speed on other programs?

[jon_e_33]

Do you know how to do this with Opera?

[magnum]

This tweak add's some bloatedness but well worth it, I only get .4mbits down avg x.x