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Hiryu
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 Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 3:31 pm Post subject: Make Firefox even faster! (also works for Epiphany) |
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Be sure to read these threads for potential reasons to NOT do some(?) of these: --pjp
Use these settings to make Firefox download and render pages that much faster.
type in the address bar of Firefox.
Now change the following values from their default to these:
(double click on a pref to change it's value)
| Code: | browser.turbo.enabled true
network.http.pipelining true
network.http.proxy.pipelining true (if you use a proxy)
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 8
network.http.max-connections 30
network.http.max-connections-per-server 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy 8 (again, for proxy)
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 8
nglayout.initialpaint.delay 100
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(Use the Filter bar to quickly find the correct prefs)
Restart Firefox.
The most interresting one is nglayout.initialpaint.delay. The value is the time in ms Firefox waits before rendering the page, setting it to 0 will result in 'flashing' pages during reload/click-throughs, as the page is rendered before enough data is downloaded to display the page.
Also, this seems to mostly benefit broadband users.
*disclaimer*
These values work best for me, your milage may vary. Use at your own risk. If you manage to break something, you get to keep all the pieces.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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Works nicely - does seem to make a difference 
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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What impact do these settings have on the servers your connecting to?
btw, the same process works with epiphany.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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| trying it now |
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neenee
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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| most of those options are usable with epiphany as well. |
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jonnii
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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| dont forget that increasing your max connections increases the load on the webserver. it might be wise to set that a little lower. also, i think 8 persistent connections is enough. |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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| polin8 wrote: | | What impact do these settings have on the servers your connecting to?. |
VERY DETRIMENTAL and it goes against the recommendation of the HTTP spec. DO NOT USE THOSE MAX CONNECTION SETTINGS. |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| HohlerMann wrote: | | polin8 wrote: | | What impact do these settings have on the servers your connecting to?. |
VERY DETRIMENTAL and it goes against the recommendation of the HTTP spec. DO NOT USE THOSE MAX CONNECTION SETTINGS. |
Yeah, it basically has your browser make n connections to the server in order to get the information back more quickly. A miniscule performance boost for you; a big performance hit for the server which suffers the load of n connections at once.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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hows:
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browser.turbo.enabled true
network.http.pipelining true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 8
network.http.max-connections 30
network.http.max-connections-per-server 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 8
nglayout.initialpaint.delay 100
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Hiryu
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| viperlin wrote: | hows:
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browser.turbo.enabled true
network.http.pipelining true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 8
network.http.max-connections 30
network.http.max-connections-per-server 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 8
nglayout.initialpaint.delay 100
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Seems to work just fine, changed the initial post with these settings. |
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viperlin
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| Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| i meant does that comply with standards, i own a webserver and i dont want to break them as i know how bad that would be. |
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Hairshorts
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| Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 6:34 am Post subject: |
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| Does bumping network.http.max-connections from the default of 24 to 30 really do that much to increase client performance or decrease server performance? It doesn't seem like that much of an increase to me. Also, what exactly does enabling network.http.pipelining do? |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| My firefox doesn't have nglayout.initialpaint.delay, dunno whether put it in user.js will have any effect ... |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 12:50 am Post subject: |
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Well it does seem faster! thx
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:32 am Post subject: |
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Works for me too
Thanks a lot!! |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 8:38 am Post subject: |
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This is a great thread tip. Thanks! I was wondering my my.yahoo.com always hangs when i first open firefox.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | | browser.turbo.enabled true |
You can forget this option, it's a no-op since some release of Firebird when the "turbo mode" support was removed from the code base. This is discussed here.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:29 am Post subject: |
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Hot damn! FireFox is blazin' fast now. 
edit: i reversed the settings. apparently this is way against specs and is bad to do. |
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VERY Nice 
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| Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Holy shit! That nglayout.initialpaint.delay setting made a world of difference. Excellent tip! |
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Gnu Kemist
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| Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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| tln wrote: | | Holy shit! That nglayout.initialpaint.delay setting made a world of difference. Excellent tip! |
I just recently saw this tip and was blown away with the performance boost!!! Thank you a million!!!
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| Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 2:46 am Post subject: |
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i cannot find the nglayout.initialpaint.delay entry either  it must be just cinco de mayo |
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kezzla
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| Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 2:16 am Post subject: |
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Wow nice feature with the paintdelay 100 instead of 0...sweet !!!
You may add this option like so:
Open up user.js in your firefox profile and add the following:
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 100);
Then restart Firefox and put brace yourself for SPEED ! hehe |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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You have to create the missing entries.
Though another site said the nglayout one should be 0.
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