Firefox Tricks and Tips

In the URL bar, type “about:config” and press enter.
This will bring up the configuration “menu” where you can change the parameters of Firefox.

Double Click on the following settins and put in the numbers below - for the true / false booleans - they’ll change when you double click.

Code:

browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs – true
network.http.max-connections – 48
network.http.max-connections-per-server – 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy – 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server – 4
network.http.pipelining – true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests – 100
network.http.proxy.pipelining – true
network.http.request.timeout – 300

One more thing… Right-click somewhere on that screen and add a 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. Since you’re broadband - it shouldn’t have to wait.

Now you should notice you’re loading pages MUCH faster now!

Oh yes, it worked alright.

rattakua wrote:Oh yes, it worked alright.

How much faster is it?

Does this work for Firefox 3 or 2?

Albert wrote:

rattakua wrote:Oh yes, it worked alright.

How much faster is it?

pretty much faster than when I first installed.

Agent wrote:Does this work for Firefox 3 or 2?

It will work on both 3 and 2.

Doctor Inferno wrote:

Agent wrote:Does this work for Firefox 3 or 2?

It will work on both 3 and 2.

/agree

Can I know what are the effects for these and if I can make it to a higher or lower value:

Code:

network.http.max-connections – 48
network.http.max-connections-per-server – 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy – 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server – 4 (why lower?)
network.http.pipelining – true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests – 100
network.http.proxy.pipelining – true

I couldn't find in my firefox 3......

Code:

browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs – true

Me too.

Albert wrote:I couldn't find in my firefox 3......

Code:

browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs – true

Me too. That is for Firefox 2 or 1 . I find this tutorial long years ago. Can't remember website.
Something like tweakfactor. I'm not sure.

so what do we do now?

Wow. It really works.

Albert wrote:so what do we do now?

The above tip doesn't really affect the browsing speed much. The main tweak is this

Code:

network.http.pipelining – true

-this enables firefox to download from the number of connections stated below (100). Like how it works in a download manager.

Code:

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests – 100

Albert wrote:so what do we do now?

Just forgot this

Code:

browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs – true