Thursday, May 05, 2005

Speed up that Firefox Browser

Ok another geek idea I find interesting... coz if you are a geek you are probably using a firefox browser from mozilla. What this does is it makes downloading of pages faster by having multiple connections so it can download more than one file at a time. Take note that this is only useful for broadband users, dial-up users just forget it...

If you have a broadband connection at home this 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. Change the entries as follows:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 30
(This means it will make 30 requests at once.)

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer.
Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay"
Set its value to "0".
(This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.)

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!?
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2 comments:

archie said...

thanks for the geek idea! hehehe ang bilis na nga ngaun! hehehe

The Pageman said...

raffy!
anothe super-geek idea!
KEWLNESS!
how'd you guess I use mozilla firefox? hehehe
ingats,
paul