NationStates Jolt Archive


A little experiment with Firefiox

Zilam
05-01-2007, 21:08
Well someone seemed to find a way to make FF work at least a little faster and i want to share the secret:

Part 1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which this will increase your browser speed.

Part 2. Alter the entries as follows(right clicking on the entry):

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

I think this will work best for broad band users, so sorry Dial up peeps :(
I have changed it and everything seems to work a lot faster for myself.

Anyways, anyone know any other little hints when working with a browser?
Khadgar
05-01-2007, 21:15
A marginal increase, but it means you're sending 30 times the traffic to websites.
The Infinite Dunes
05-01-2007, 22:43
With the speeds I'm currently getting off my ISP and the magnificence of Jolt's servers I really don't think that would make any difference to me. I'm seriously considering a huge complaint to my ISP. They're just lucky that I have essays to be writing right now.
Rubiconic Crossings
05-01-2007, 22:44
yeah....and it really annoys the fuck out the hosting service.

Not nice.
Sominium Effectus
05-01-2007, 23:39
A marginal increase, but it means you're sending 30 times the traffic to websites.

Not quite...the default is 4, so you're only sending 7.5 times the traffic. But yeah, it doesn't seem worth the trouble you'd be giving the server since you won't spare much time anyway.
The Mindset
05-01-2007, 23:53
Alternatively, install Fasterfox. (http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/)
Peisandros
06-01-2007, 00:25
Alternatively, install Fasterfox. (http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/)

Yeah that's good.