Firefox Speed Tweaks How to make Firefox open websites faster

	Firefox Speed Tweaks - How to make Firefox open websites faster
	Discussion by tarun with 16 Replies. Last Update: October 9, 2009, 10:48 am (View Latest)	Page 1 of 2 pages.

tarun

Note: The one posted here is not the same thing. This one has been tested and increases the speed, an update to perform these same steps is avalailable on the mozilline.org forums as well.

Type in the Address Bar - about:config
Then scroll over to the following settings and adjust:

network.http.max-connections :40
network.http.max-connections-per-server :20
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server :20
network.http.pipelining :True
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests :32
network.http.proxy.pipelining :True

Taken from here

Tue Apr 26, 2005 Reply New Discussion

OpaQue

Can you please tell what these FIREFOX TWEAKS do exactly. I would like to know if I am not screwing up anything important with these tweaks. Firefox is my primary browser ;-)

Do you have any more firefox tweaks ?

Sun Sep 11, 2005 Reply New Discussion

solanky

These types of tweaks are available a lot on the internet now a days. Although in this thread one or two things seems new but I would also like to know more about them as Opaque has asked so that I not do anything wrong to my firefox.

Sun Sep 11, 2005 Reply New Discussion

nightfox

QUOTE (solanky)

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It's called back-ups!

Well, I'm brave enough to do it.... I just need to back-up my bookmarks as that is my pride and joy in Firefox!

[N]F

Ok, everything is running smooth! :huh:

It really did speed things up even for a junky dial-up connection! I notice a HUGE speed increase... seems perfectly safe to me... I'm not lying either... the main forum page for me can take maybe ~15 seconds to load, this took like ~5-7 seconds!

[N]F

Mon Dec 26, 2005 Reply New Discussion

sagaxx

thanks a lot , now my firefox is works more faster !

Mon Dec 26, 2005 Reply New Discussion

YudzzY

i have applied it and as from the responses, i am waiting to see something special to be happening and i've got a few glance and hoping that it will be attained.
so, thanks for the tweaks.. they seem to rock :-)

Tue Dec 27, 2005 Reply New Discussion

broli

I'm wondering if this might in anyways affect and help me if I have broadband? Cause I can't tell if it's faster or not on mine haha. I hope it doesn't make it slower, that would be bad, but it seems it's just doing nothing I guess to hurt or help. I don't know, broadband's hard to tell unless it's a very heavy site with lots of images and stuff that would take at least 30 seconds to load or something if it was there.

Wed Dec 28, 2005 Reply New Discussion

JUDGE_RELIC

I would be very cautious with anything that has "about:" in front of it. Please recall the browser hijacker "about:blank"

Wed Jan 4, 2006 Reply New Discussion

xboxrulz

to make things even faster, install FasterFox

xboxrulz

Sun Feb 5, 2006 Reply New Discussion

miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG

Fasterfox exactly does what those tweaks do - but along with that it adds in its own enhanced prefetching tool, which sits in the background and keeps fetching bits and pieces of content from the links in your current page and stuffs it into the cache. Thus by the time you finish with one page and click on a link on it - the next page is already partially loaded making it seem load even faster.

Sun Feb 5, 2006 Reply New Discussion

sagech

Thanks for that speed tweak! I have another tweak which reduces the RAM that Firefox consumes.

Current versions of Firefox tend to use more and more of your system's RAM as time goes on. Geeks call this problem a "memory leak." This particular memory leak is not the fault of Firefox - the Macromedia Flash plug-in is causing this problem!

To fix it, just follow these steps:

* In your location bar, type about:config and press Enter

* Right-click on the screen to bring up a menu, click on New then choose Integer

* A pop-up box will ask you for the "preference name". Type in browser.cache.memory.capacity and click OK

* Another pop-up box will appear - type in the number 60000

* Close Firefox and restart the program. No more memory leak!

Tue Feb 7, 2006 Reply New Discussion

broli

I seriously have a ram problem with mine. This actually sorta helped it. So I'm using a few less than I really am now. YAY \ (

) /

Hope this guide is sorta helping others too. I passed it around to some of my other friends who have fire fox slowdowns or want to fix things up to make it faster.

Wed Feb 8, 2006 Reply New Discussion

PsYChO

i got that configuration but it seems nothing happend all is exactly the same that else can i do?

Wed Feb 8, 2006 Reply New Discussion

vizskywalker

To answer OpaQue's question, since no one else seems likely to, here is what each preference does:

network.http.max-connections: This determines the maximum number of connections firefox will make to the outside world. So if you set it to one, you should only really be able to load one page at a time

network.http.max-connections-per-server: This determines how many connections firefox will make to each server. In some cases creating more connections to one server means pages can be loaded in pieces, or two pages in a framed page can be loaded at once.

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server: This determines how many connections to each server can be left open once a job is finished, so for example a java applet connecting to the server and maintaining the connection.

network.http.pipelining: Even though we have told firefox it may make more than one connection to each server, it will only actively use one connection at a time, although others may be open, and it may switch back and forth between connections to give an appearance of using them all. Pipelining allows firefox to use all the connections at once.

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: This tells firefox the maximum number of requests it can actively use at once when pipelinig.

network.http.proxy.pipelining: This tells firefox it may pipeline through a proxy. Otherwise, if a proxy is set up it will not pipeline.

And finally, the new one added in a later post:

browser.cache.memory.capactiy: This sets a maximum on the amount of memory that Firefox may have allocated to it.

~Viz

Wed May 31, 2006 Reply New Discussion

tristania456

QUOTE (OpaQue)

if u dont want to screw up anything there is a extension that does it for u its called fasterfox it configures ur firefox to speed up you can find it on the firefox website under plugins.

Wed Jun 21, 2006 Reply New Discussion