making firefox 10x faster

[BarcaMagic]

ok i came across this way to make firefox 10x faster .i did it and its faster but not 10x ...

very simple trick , no software no downloads required .

1)Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit enter. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

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 recieves. NOTE:this trick only works for broadband users not for dialup

[ChriB]

Thank you very much.
This tweak made my Firefox like 3-4x faster!

[Rustynuts]

nice i notice quite a bit differance on the works pc, as there internet is sucky :lol:

[BarcaMagic]

no problem glad i could help

[Poseidon79]

I can see a difference for sure... thanks for the tip!

[shivers316]

Awesome tip! Thanks.

[defmute]

This isn't a good tip in the sense that it hammers the servers and some places ban you for having too many connections.

Just be warned.

[unknown_soldier]

Great tip. Thank you!!!!

[Happy Noodle Boy]

This isn't a good tip in the sense that it hammers the servers and some places ban you for having too many connections.

Just be warned.

I was about to say, this is a horrible, horrible thing to do. There's a reason that number is low, because the servers only take so many requests. Bumping the number of request from one individual user means more stress.

Example: Assume 100 people use FF's default, 4. that's 400 requests to the MMi servers. You say change to 30. You just turned 400 request to 3000 for a minimal increase in performance.

I really suggest everyone here to change back to the default setting.

[addybgrilla]

Hmm yeah sounds too good to be true, I knew there would be a default for a reason...

[NetMage]

The number of requests doesn't change - this doesn't "swamp" the server.

However, increasing it over 8 doesn't seem to do anything in FireFox and increasing it to 8 may slow FireFox down in some situations and break web page drawing in others:

Firefox speed tweak may do more harm than good | New Tech Heroes

Overall, turning it on should improve performance slightly, the amount depending on a lot of factors.

[Zeal]

Mine seems fine with my Comcast speeds..

[Chase817]

lol, i set my max requests to 10,000 for a minute. i went to the slowest site i could find... holy crap, i timed it and it loaded 20 times faster

[trilogy069]

Appreciate the tip...thanks!!!