Tweak Firefox Make your Firefox much faster

[PinQ 0]

Got another one for all of you tweaking firefox out:
1) Ok fire up the fox

Just a heads up these settings make you download sites considerably faster, BUT they put a great deal of overload on the sites you visit

2) type in "about:config" the address bar and then hit enter

You'll see a whole load of options here you will need to change some of the values.
These ones:

network.http.max-connections = 64
network.http.max-connections-per-server= 20
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server= 10
network.http.pipelining = true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 200 (choose one)
nglayout.initialpaint.delay = 0
network.http.request.max-start-delay = 0

if you can't find "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" your going have to make it. Just right click and hit new integer.

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy = 10
network.http.proxy.pipelining = true
network.http.proxy.version = 1.0

now close down firefox and start it up again.

Now Firefox will burn up the web

Notice from BuffaloHELP:

Copied from http://forums.xisto.com/topic/81357-tweak-firefox/ You MUST, ALWAYS use QUOTE tags when you are copying and pasting. This is your last verbal warning.

Edited August 22, 2005 by BuffaloHELP (see edit history)

[machinamedia 0]

I think this works... I just restarted firefox and it seems it loads faster and the websites load faster too. Thanks!

[electriic ink 1]

This is amazing! I could in theory make the numbers higher and higher and the page-load speed would get faster and faster, but does anyone know if anything bad would happen if I did?

[rvalkass 5]

I think you would start putting more and more load onto sites that you visit, as you are opening loads of connections at once, so its not a good idea to put it too high.

[pawitp 0]

Pipelining is a trick that Firefox establish multiple connection to the server. You will put the load on that server. You will get more bandwidth share with this method. But some servers don't like this and they can ban you if you do it too much.

[Static_Fury 0]

I have used this for a very very long time. Like 9 months thats a long time in interent terms . And i have been in trouble for usuing to much bandwith, esp on a game site what pays for bandwidth.....