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Speed Firefox if using Broadband

#1 Post by Lobster »

Firefox is originally optimized for Dial-Up connections but most people have broadband now and these are some tips to speed Firefox up:

1. Type “about:config
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#2 Post by davec51 »

It not only works, it rocks. Thanks.
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#3 Post by Wolf Pup »

The network.http.proxy.pipelining and network.http.pipelining.maxrequests are hard coded at 8 and anything higher will be stuck at 8.

There's also another little tweak, network.prefetch-next
setting it to false improves privacy, from here
With prefetching enabled, you may end up with cookies and web pages in your web browser's cache from web sites that you did not click on since prefetching happens automatically when you view Google search results pages. You can delete these files by clearing your browser's cache and cookies.
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#4 Post by rcrsn51 »

It's been my experience that pipelining will actually make some sites worse. Read here:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.pipelining
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#5 Post by nic2109 »

Perhaps this is the wrong place to ask, but does anyone have any similarly useful tips for Opera?
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#6 Post by Wolf Pup »

Opera does pipelining automatically. There are three other settings that can affect page loading times:

Start opera, Tools --> Preferences
Advanced Tab --

Browsing Sub-Menu
Loading: dialup connection, 2-3 seconds. Fast connections, 1-2 seconds.

Network Sub-Menu
Max connections to a server: dialup connections, 4. Fast connections, 8.
Max total connections: dialup connections, 16. Fast connections, 32.
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#7 Post by nic2109 »

Wolf Pup wrote:Opera does pipelining automatically. There are three other settings that can affect page loading times:

Start opera, Tools --> Preferences
Advanced Tab --

Browsing Sub-Menu
Loading: dialup connection, 2-3 seconds. Fast connections, 1-2 seconds.

Network Sub-Menu
Max connections to a server: dialup connections, 4. Fast connections, 8.
Max total connections: dialup connections, 16. Fast connections, 32.
Thanks. Your first option was already set to an appropriate value of 1 second. I changed the second as you suggested.

And did the third get lost in the post?

It certainly zips along quite nicely now, so thank-you.
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#8 Post by tzi »

...I just install the fasterfox addon, it sets all these settings for you, and has different options ;)
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