Hi All,
A recent post included a link to an article on cool things you can change in
Firefox. I made one series of the recommended changes, and with terrific
results! I greatly improved my Firefox performance, on web page loading,
streaming video now starts playing much more quickly. Just below I have
pasted in the portion I had such good luck with.
The full article is at the following link:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/15-coolest-firefox-tricks-ever.html
Here is the top of that article and the portion I am referring to, which
changes Firefox to better utilize high speed Internet service. The author
says that the default Firefox settings are designed to maximize old slow
dialup service. The changes really did the trick for me.
Tim Ford
15 Coolest Firefox Tricks Ever
FEATURED TECHNOLOGY
BY LEO BABAUTA
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Everybody’s favorite open-source browser, Firefox, is great right out of the
box. And by adding some of the awesome extensions available out there, the
browser just gets better and better.
But look under the hood, and there are a bunch of hidden (and some
not-so-secret) tips and tricks available that will crank Firefox up and pimp
your browser.
Make it faster, cooler, more efficient. Get to be a Jedi master with the
following cool Firefox tricks.
…
12) Speed up Firefox. If you have a broadband connection (and most of us
do), you can use pipelining to speed up your page loads. This allows Firefox
to
load multiple things on a page at once, instead of one at a time (by
default, it’s optimized for dialup connections). Here’s how:
list of 5 items
• Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Type
“network.http” in the filter field, and change the following settings
(double-click on
them to change them):
• Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
• Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
• Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 30. This will
allow it to make 30 requests at once.
• Also, 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.
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[Note from Tim: In the last step above, I entered a 1 to replace the ″.
That was purely a guess, but Firefox works much better. However, since I
made the other changes all at the same time, I have no idea which items
contributed to the improvement in what proportion.]
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