[shadman]

hello and good day.

i have just switched over to ff for the time being and thought some people around these parts might like this post.

FireFox, IMO, is a much superior browser to IE, and this little nugget makes FireFox move RIDICULOUSLY fast. This may have been posted before, maybe not, but for FireFox users who havent done this, I highly recommend it.

It includes:

-improved tabbed browsing
-pop up blocking
-integrated Goggle search
-enhanced privacy controls
-built-in phishing protection
-online spell checking
-lots of themes, interfaces, and extensions/addons
Mozilla Firefox officially supports:
-Microsoft Windows
-Linux
-Mac OS X
Unofficial Support:
-Free BSD
-OS/2
-Solaris
-SkyOS
-BeOS
-XP Professional x64 Edition

Here are some Tips&Tricks that can help you double the speed of Firefox.


1. Type about:config in the address bar and then press Enter.


2. In the filter search bar type network.http.pipelining. Be sure the value field is set
true,if not double-click to set true.
HTTP is the application-layer protocol that most web pages are transferred with. In
HTTP 1.1, multiple requests can be sent before any responses are received. This is known
as pipelining. Pipelining reduces page loading times, but not all servers support it.


3. Go back to the filter search bar and type network.http.pipelining.maxrequests.
Double-click this option and set its value to 8.


4. In the filter search bar and type network.http.proxy.pipelining. Once opened doubleclick
on it and set it to true.


5. In IPv6-capable DNS servers, an IPv4 address may be returned when an IPv6 address
is requested. It is possible for Mozilla to recover from this misinformation, but a
significant delay is introduced.
Type network.dns.disableIPv6 in the filter search bar and set this option to true by
double clicking on it.


6. CONTENT INTERRUPT PARSING
This preference controls if the application will interrupt parsing a page to respond to UI
events. It does not exist by default.
Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window, select New
and then Boolean from the pop-up menu. Then:
A. Enter content.interrupt.parsing in the New boolean value pop-up window and click
OK
B. When prompted to choose the value for the new boolean, select true and click OK.


7. Rather than wait until a page has completely downloaded to display it to the user,
Mozilla applications will regularly render what has been received to that point. This
option controls the maximum amount of time the application will be unresponsive while
rendering pages.
Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window, select New
and then Integer from the pop-up menu.
A. Enter content.max.tokenizing.time in the New integer value pop-up window and
click OK
B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 2250000 and click OK.


8. CONTENT NOTIFY INTERVAL
This option sets the minimum amount of time to wait between reflows. Right-click
(Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window, select New and then
Integer from the pop-up menu.
A. Type content.notify.interval in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.
B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 750000 and click OK.


9. CONTENT NOTIFY ONTIMER
A. This option sets if to reflow pages at an interval any higher than that specified by
content.notify.interval. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the
about:config window and select New and then Boolean from the pop-up menu.
B. Type content.notify.ontimer in the New boolean value pop-up window and click OK.
C. You will be prompted to choose the value for the new boolean. Select true and click
OK.


10. Notify Backoffcount
This option controls the maximum number of times the content will do timer-based
reflows. After this number has been reached, the page will only reflow once it is finished
downloading. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window
and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.
A. Enter content.notify.backoffcount in the New integer value pop-up window and click
OK.
B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 5 and click OK.


11. CONTENT SWITCH THRESHOLD
You can interact with a loading page when content.interrupt.parsing is set to true.
When a page is loading, the application has two modes: a high frequency interrupt mode
and a low frequency interrupt mode. The first one interrupts the parser more frequently to
allow for greater UI responsiveness during page load.
The low frequency interrupt mode interrupts the parser less frequently to allow for
quicker page load. The application enters high frequency interrupt mode when you move
the mouse or type on the keyboard and switch back to low frequency mode when you had
no activity for a certain amount of time. This preference controls that amount of time.
Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select
New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.
A. Enter content.switch.threshold in the New integer value pop-up window and click
OK.
B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 750000 and click OK.


12. NGLAYOUT INITIALPAINT DELAY
Mozilla applications render web pages incrementally, they display what’s been received
of a page before the entire page has been downloaded. Since the start of a web page
normally doesn’t have much useful information to display, Mozilla applications will wait
a short interval before first rendering a page. This preference controls that interval. Rightclick
(Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and
then Integer from the pop-up menu.
A. Enter nglayout.initialpaint.delay in the New integer value pop-up window and click
OK.
B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 0 and click OK.

ENJOY!
good day,

cr

[Hirs Ute]

Hi Shadman and thanks for the tips I've used Firefox for a couple of years now and other than using some of the extensions & Add ons was never aware of customisation potential.

I have absolutely no idea what I did in following your instructions but I followed them to the letter and, now, even Legalsounds loads lighteningly quick

Thanks again

[solaris]

Originally Posted by shadman

hello and good day.

i have just switched over to ff for the time being and thought some people around these parts might like this post.

FireFox, IMO, is a much superior browser to IE, and this little nugget makes FireFox move RIDICULOUSLY fast. This may have been posted before, maybe not, but for FireFox users who havent done this, I highly recommend it.

It includes:

-improved tabbed browsing
-pop up blocking
-integrated Goggle search
-enhanced privacy controls
-built-in phishing protection
-online spell checking
-lots of themes, interfaces, and extensions/addons
Mozilla Firefox officially supports:
-Microsoft Windows
-Linux
-Mac OS X
Unofficial Support:
-Free BSD
-OS/2
-Solaris
-SkyOS
-BeOS
-XP Professional x64 Edition

Here are some Tips&Tricks that can help you double the speed of Firefox.


1. Type about:config in the address bar and then press Enter.


2. In the filter search bar type network.http.pipelining. Be sure the value field is set
true,if not double-click to set true.
HTTP is the application-layer protocol that most web pages are transferred with. In
HTTP 1.1, multiple requests can be sent before any responses are received. This is known
as pipelining. Pipelining reduces page loading times, but not all servers support it.


3. Go back to the filter search bar and type network.http.pipelining.maxrequests.
Double-click this option and set its value to 8.


4. In the filter search bar and type network.http.proxy.pipelining. Once opened doubleclick
on it and set it to true.


5. In IPv6-capable DNS servers, an IPv4 address may be returned when an IPv6 address
is requested. It is possible for Mozilla to recover from this misinformation, but a
significant delay is introduced.
Type network.dns.disableIPv6 in the filter search bar and set this option to true by
double clicking on it.


6. CONTENT INTERRUPT PARSING
This preference controls if the application will interrupt parsing a page to respond to UI
events. It does not exist by default.
Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window, select New
and then Boolean from the pop-up menu. Then:
A. Enter content.interrupt.parsing in the New boolean value pop-up window and click
OK
B. When prompted to choose the value for the new boolean, select true and click OK.


7. Rather than wait until a page has completely downloaded to display it to the user,
Mozilla applications will regularly render what has been received to that point. This
option controls the maximum amount of time the application will be unresponsive while
rendering pages.
Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window, select New
and then Integer from the pop-up menu.
A. Enter content.max.tokenizing.time in the New integer value pop-up window and
click OK
B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 2250000 and click OK.


8. CONTENT NOTIFY INTERVAL
This option sets the minimum amount of time to wait between reflows. Right-click
(Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window, select New and then
Integer from the pop-up menu.
A. Type content.notify.interval in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.
B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 750000 and click OK.


9. CONTENT NOTIFY ONTIMER
A. This option sets if to reflow pages at an interval any higher than that specified by
content.notify.interval. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the
about:config window and select New and then Boolean from the pop-up menu.
B. Type content.notify.ontimer in the New boolean value pop-up window and click OK.
C. You will be prompted to choose the value for the new boolean. Select true and click
OK.


10. Notify Backoffcount
This option controls the maximum number of times the content will do timer-based
reflows. After this number has been reached, the page will only reflow once it is finished
downloading. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window
and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.
A. Enter content.notify.backoffcount in the New integer value pop-up window and click
OK.
B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 5 and click OK.


11. CONTENT SWITCH THRESHOLD
You can interact with a loading page when content.interrupt.parsing is set to true.
When a page is loading, the application has two modes: a high frequency interrupt mode
and a low frequency interrupt mode. The first one interrupts the parser more frequently to
allow for greater UI responsiveness during page load.
The low frequency interrupt mode interrupts the parser less frequently to allow for
quicker page load. The application enters high frequency interrupt mode when you move
the mouse or type on the keyboard and switch back to low frequency mode when you had
no activity for a certain amount of time. This preference controls that amount of time.
Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select
New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.
A. Enter content.switch.threshold in the New integer value pop-up window and click
OK.
B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 750000 and click OK.


12. NGLAYOUT INITIALPAINT DELAY
Mozilla applications render web pages incrementally, they display what’s been received
of a page before the entire page has been downloaded. Since the start of a web page
normally doesn’t have much useful information to display, Mozilla applications will wait
a short interval before first rendering a page. This preference controls that interval. Rightclick
(Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and
then Integer from the pop-up menu.
A. Enter nglayout.initialpaint.delay in the New integer value pop-up window and click
OK.
B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 0 and click OK.

ENJOY!
good day,

cr

Hi Chad.


Nice to see you pop by the forum - and nice to see that you finally "saw the light" I guess I'm somewhat "to blame" for this


For the less tech savvy guys out there, someone actually made a Firefox add-on out of the above manoeuvres It's called Fasterfox and you can get it here: Fasterfox - Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.


Have you installed the below two essential add-ons/extensions too?

Adblock Plus: Save your time and traffic

mozdev.org - ietab: index

[solaris]

Originally Posted by Hirs Ute

Hi Shadman and thanks for the tips I've used Firefox for a couple of years now and other than using some of the extensions & Add ons was never aware of customisation potential.

I have absolutely no idea what I did in following your instructions but I followed them to the letter and, now, even Legalsounds loads lighteningly quick

Thanks again

Maybe that's why I seem to be the only one here never having any troubles with the loading speed and/or download speed of LegalSounds

[rolly]

Rather than messing about with all those addons,and editing about:config,you can just use Opera.
It comes pre-configured with all those tweaks,and many more features like html editing,resume download,all while using less resources than Firefox.

I was a Firefox fan for several years myself until I gave Opera a chance.
Only thing I could tell anybody is to try it for one month,learn about it and get used to it,and then start using Firefox again.
Bet you switch back to Opera within the day.

Only thing that I don't care for with Opera is that it's proprietary with a closed source,(same as IE),and you can't have a look at it's source code.
But they are considering making it open source as well.
Well,one more thing to,which isn't all bad.
It stores all the streaming flash in the OS /tmp directory,and doesn't clear it by itself.
I suppose a cron script could take care of this if it became a recurring problem.
It can accumulate in size very quickly if you view a lot of flash media.
Then again,it's a great way to "download" those flash files that appear to have no download links.

To not deflect entirely from the original post,those are some fine tips for those that do prefer Firefox just as I one did.
When I did use Firefox I was always in search of hacks like this to make it perform better,and would of been thankful for this post.
I promise not to try and hijack any more threads.

[Nightfly]

Originally Posted by shadman

hello and good day.

i have just switched over to ff for the time being and thought some people around these parts might like this post.

FireFox, IMO, is a much superior browser to IE, and this little nugget makes FireFox move RIDICULOUSLY fast. This may have been posted before, maybe not, but for FireFox users who havent done this, I highly recommend it.

It includes:

-improved tabbed browsing
-pop up blocking
-integrated Goggle search
-enhanced privacy controls
-built-in phishing protection
-online spell checking
-lots of themes, interfaces, and extensions/addons
Mozilla Firefox officially supports:
-Microsoft Windows
-Linux
-Mac OS X
Unofficial Support:
-Free BSD
-OS/2
-Solaris
-SkyOS
-BeOS
-XP Professional x64 Edition

Here are some Tips&Tricks that can help you double the speed of Firefox.


1. Type about:config in the address bar and then press Enter.


2. In the filter search bar type network.http.pipelining. Be sure the value field is set
true,if not double-click to set true.
HTTP is the application-layer protocol that most web pages are transferred with. In
HTTP 1.1, multiple requests can be sent before any responses are received. This is known
as pipelining. Pipelining reduces page loading times, but not all servers support it.


3. Go back to the filter search bar and type network.http.pipelining.maxrequests.
Double-click this option and set its value to 8.


4. In the filter search bar and type network.http.proxy.pipelining. Once opened doubleclick
on it and set it to true.


5. In IPv6-capable DNS servers, an IPv4 address may be returned when an IPv6 address
is requested. It is possible for Mozilla to recover from this misinformation, but a
significant delay is introduced.
Type network.dns.disableIPv6 in the filter search bar and set this option to true by
double clicking on it.


6. CONTENT INTERRUPT PARSING
This preference controls if the application will interrupt parsing a page to respond to UI
events. It does not exist by default.
Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window, select New
and then Boolean from the pop-up menu. Then:
A. Enter content.interrupt.parsing in the New boolean value pop-up window and click
OK
B. When prompted to choose the value for the new boolean, select true and click OK.


7. Rather than wait until a page has completely downloaded to display it to the user,
Mozilla applications will regularly render what has been received to that point. This
option controls the maximum amount of time the application will be unresponsive while
rendering pages.
Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window, select New
and then Integer from the pop-up menu.
A. Enter content.max.tokenizing.time in the New integer value pop-up window and
click OK
B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 2250000 and click OK.


8. CONTENT NOTIFY INTERVAL
This option sets the minimum amount of time to wait between reflows. Right-click
(Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window, select New and then
Integer from the pop-up menu.
A. Type content.notify.interval in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.
B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 750000 and click OK.


9. CONTENT NOTIFY ONTIMER
A. This option sets if to reflow pages at an interval any higher than that specified by
content.notify.interval. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the
about:config window and select New and then Boolean from the pop-up menu.
B. Type content.notify.ontimer in the New boolean value pop-up window and click OK.
C. You will be prompted to choose the value for the new boolean. Select true and click
OK.


10. Notify Backoffcount
This option controls the maximum number of times the content will do timer-based
reflows. After this number has been reached, the page will only reflow once it is finished
downloading. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window
and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.
A. Enter content.notify.backoffcount in the New integer value pop-up window and click
OK.
B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 5 and click OK.


11. CONTENT SWITCH THRESHOLD
You can interact with a loading page when content.interrupt.parsing is set to true.
When a page is loading, the application has two modes: a high frequency interrupt mode
and a low frequency interrupt mode. The first one interrupts the parser more frequently to
allow for greater UI responsiveness during page load.
The low frequency interrupt mode interrupts the parser less frequently to allow for
quicker page load. The application enters high frequency interrupt mode when you move
the mouse or type on the keyboard and switch back to low frequency mode when you had
no activity for a certain amount of time. This preference controls that amount of time.
Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select
New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.
A. Enter content.switch.threshold in the New integer value pop-up window and click
OK.
B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 750000 and click OK.


12. NGLAYOUT INITIALPAINT DELAY
Mozilla applications render web pages incrementally, they display what’s been received
of a page before the entire page has been downloaded. Since the start of a web page
normally doesn’t have much useful information to display, Mozilla applications will wait
a short interval before first rendering a page. This preference controls that interval. Rightclick
(Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and
then Integer from the pop-up menu.
A. Enter nglayout.initialpaint.delay in the New integer value pop-up window and click
OK.
B. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 0 and click OK.

ENJOY!
good day,

cr

Shadman,

Thank you for the most excellent post..

Good to see you back and in such a big way..I too have switched over to
Firefox for the many reasons you stated.

Take care and see you around,

[tikov]

Thanks for that Shadman....

Working a treat btw......please keep the tips coming please.


P.S Anyway of getting my broadband to work any quicker???

Thanks in advance

Tiko

[mike]

I've just modified my Firefox settings and the results really are remarkable.

Thank you very much.

[Frunze]

Originally Posted by solaris

Hi Chad.


Nice to see you pop by the forum - and nice to see that you finally "saw the light" I guess I'm somewhat "to blame" for this


For the less tech savvy guys out there, someone actually made a Firefox add-on out of the above manoeuvres It's called Fasterfox and you can get it here: Fasterfox - Performance and network tweaks for Firefox.


Have you installed the below two essential add-ons/extensions too?

Adblock Plus: Save your time and traffic

mozdev.org - ietab: index

Solaris, what would I do without you???