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Firefox Hack
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Posted by: Shakie

This hack is used to speed up your firefox browser when using broadband.

Very simple:

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 really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

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.

Posted by: Shumway

Shakie your too slow :D this has already been posted a couple time's.

Posted by: Shakie

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Shumway [/i]
[B]Shakie your too slow :D this has already been posted a couple time's. [/B][/QUOTE]

true... but not here... at least when I did a search I couldn't find it.

so :p

Posted by: jinexile

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

Doesn't do anything or is capped slightly above 8

[quote]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.[/quote]

Its actually faster for broadband users to set this at between 100-250

Posted by: willz0rz

Thanks my firefox runs faster now!

Posted by: extendcradle

Nice information shacky....Even if this information exists somewhere,I still have no idea that this is possible so this is a nice post.

Posted by: Lonewolf5460

yah it is nice info already done it to firefox.can some one sticky this in the browser section.

Posted by: bart

No bad even it already is some were else

Thanks

Posted by: TMan7000

Thanks, It works great for me

Posted by: Tyler1989

I'm trying it now but I'll be ticked if this screws anything up when I update down the road.

Edit: One part of your tutorial is flawed I'll go make a better one elseware :p . I'll give you a hint SP2 restricts the amount of connections a program can have you need to do a system hack then the firefox hack...

Edit2: hey everyone I'm so sorry. I intended to fix the flaw when I got back from vacation but I never did but late is better than never. XP SP2 limates the number of downloads/steams/connections an app can have. So nothing will go above 10 I think. You need to hack the registry to allow 50 connections at one time. I'll ask Eric to post the automatic registry hack or I can upload mine if I can find it.

Posted by: reice

Ya thanks this was very simple

Posted by: Vormund

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by reice [/i]
[B]Ya thanks this was very simple [/B][/QUOTE]

:rolleyes: I suggest you move up two years, get Firefox 2, and let [URL=http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/]FasterFox[/URL] do the altering for you.