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Speed up Firefox for broadband connections
Authored by: Jack Burton on Dec 30, '04 10:11:31AM

You can also speed up Firefox (or even IE, or other browsers that support this change) by increasing the number of maximum persistent connection.

In Firefox about:config you can change network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy and network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server to a higher value to increase the number of connections that your system will use to download images (I use 10 - but be advised, you are 'violating' the http standard by doing this). This probably won't break as many things and pipelining does, and you will notice a significant increase in webpage loading. You will also be able to download more than 2 files at a time from a website. Please be mindful of other people's bandwidth.



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Speed up Firefox for broadband connections
Authored by: TheSpoonman on Dec 30, '04 11:09:10AM

Nice addition. I tried the others and noted a nice increase in performance, but adding in yours just put it through the roof. It takes like 1-2 seconds before anything shows up on the screen, but for the most part, it's the whole page, fully loaded. Much better than waiting 5-10 seconds for "most" of the page to load...

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Speed up Firefox for broadband connections
Authored by: gsgm on Dec 30, '04 01:46:34PM

I also noted a speed increase for most sites by enabling the piplining as suggested.

However, the nglayout.initialpaint.delay may cause some "wierdness" if set to zero. (Especially with sites that use lots of tables)

You might want to play with this setting. I believe the default is 250, so try having the number and test.

For me, 100 works just fine



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