Jun 22 2006
Firefox Tips
Published by Ivan Groznii at 7:29 am under Linux How-To |
Firefox is a great browser on its own. On Linux, it is the fastest browser I’ve experienced (Opera comes close).
It is possible to make this fast, light browser even faster. Just follow these tips, which have been circulating on the web and now reproduced here:
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.
If you’re using a broadband connection the load times should be reduced substantially. Firefox on Linux is decidedly the fastest browsing experience.
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[...] Found this great tip on The Linux Extremist that I thought I’d pass along. It’s a few settings that help speed up page loads and, while high speed makes this almost moot, it does make a difference when you can 30 items at once versus 1. [...]