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Re: Hacking Firefox: Speed Up Your Browser

__/ [Linønut] on Saturday 03 September 2005 14:12 \__

> Roy Schestowitz poked his little head through the XP firewall and said:
> 
>>> Hacking Firefox: Speed Up Your Browser
>>> 
>>> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1854234,00.asp
>> http://forevergeek.com/open_source/make_firefox_faster.php
>>
>> All it involves is pipelining requests, which has worked magic for almost
>> a year. I sit on a 100MBit connection so I really give little or no damn
>> how much traffic is travelling underneath. All I know is that I am not
>> interested in Firefox out-of-the-box settings, which accommodate an
>> average Internet user with ADSL.
>>
>> http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/04/05/firefox-pop-ups-block/
>>                     [Stopping 'new-styled' pop-ups]
> 
> Here's all those settings for speeding up Firefox, in one place:
> 
> user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 96);
> user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 32);
> user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 24);
> user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 12);
> user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
> user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
> user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
> user_pref("privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins", 2);
> user_pref("privacy.popups.firstTime", false);
> 
> On my box, they go into .mozilla/firefox/<randomdir>.default/prefs.js.
> Close firefox before editing.  Run firefox, close it, and verify that
> the new settings are still there.

Sweet! Thanks for that.

Roy

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