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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 = 100 or 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 :)

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Thanks for the tip! I changed it and my email and such seems to be going considerably faster. Thanks for teaching me how to change my firefox settings! :rolleyes:

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Wow! I just did this and I've already noticed an increase in speed! Does this apply to downloads too? What else can be tweaked? This is really awesome!

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I think the application simply does the same job as this manual work. And thanks very much for that modding advice. All the webpages load extra-fast which is always good. If only this could be repeated with IE. I think you should be given at least 30 credits for this post (perhaps admin injection).

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Im curiouse... Has anyone had a go at tweaking Firefox's source code ???

 

I compiled firefox myself. the pre-compiled firefox is linked againsed the older GTK graphic library, (all my other programs are linked againsed th enewer gtk2) compiling yourself with the "gtk2" use flag will link it againsed gtk2. saves me having to download gtk1 and gtk2 themes :mellow:

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The source code is, of course, open to all comers, but be warned- it's huge. There is not going to be a lot that you can go in and change easily that is not already an option somewhere, either in the preferences or the config. The source code has improved a good bit (in quality: organization, naming conventions, etc.) since its Netscape days, but there is still a fair learning curve. I have not made changes to it in a while but I have used it as a teaching tool before. It is an excellent example of a complex real-world application that students can take apart. It also demonstrates good practices and some very bad. The latter mostly seem to be leftovers from earlier days but there is a lot of it. In particular, the Firefox codebase is a very good demonstration of portable programming, both just how hideous some of the code has to be to deal with OS bugs and non-standard system libraries and how well Firefox does handle it.

 

 

If you do want to invest the time, the project welcomes volunteers and you will learn a good deal.

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Right, I have run into a problem. This advancement starts to fail when it comes to wide-site jspx communications. The website Pogo.com deteriorates with this improvement. If someone could please post the original values, that would be a great help.

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If someone could please post the original values, that would be a great help.

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Ignore that last bit. I forgot that you can reset the integer's back to their original state automatically.

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This has really made my firefox go faster thanks but as a person said if you put them half as much then it goes faster is this correct?

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Isn't this more or less what the Fasterfox add-on does? Having a look at the preference window, it seems like it is basically a GUI for editing these values, along with several preset options. Pipelining, cache, connections... It looks the same. I think that if you want to do this, you might as well use the add-on because it's just a little easier.

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