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Firefox Speed Tweaks

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Lord Ravenclaw, Sep 11, 2005.

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  1. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    A few little tips I found out mucking about in about:config of Firefox...let me say now my pages fly now like none other, especially the forum which loads near instantly. These are a few basic tweaks, but if you want more advanced ones to make Firefox even faster, let me know, but I saw little need as my Firefox already flies.

    1) Open the page about:config in Firefox.
    2) Find network.enableIDN and double click it to disable. Not a speed tweak, but a security fix.
    3) Next, enable network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining.
    4) Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 8
    5) Set network.http.max-connections-per-server to 12
    6) Unless you have an active IPv6 tunnel and use it to browse (as I do), you can set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true, which speeds up FireFox a bit.

    If a page breaks while loading, turn off the pipelining and reload it. Its known to sometimes break a page.

    Also, if you use the Epiphany browser in Linux, not sure if there's a Windows version, these tweaks work as well.
     
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    be careful to not set the changes too high, I set mine to like 20/20 and it broke pretty much any webpage I went to. 8/12 still makes kontrband.com crash often while trying to use its movies, and going to a flash heavy site or streaming vid and it crashes on me until I revert it to normal.
     
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    8/12 works fine for me. Near-instant is enough speed for me.
     
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    funny enough, I found the limiter in how fast I load webpages, often my RAM, and not my speed.

    got 10mbs cable from Roadrunner, and usually I get 100% on firefox, and 1-2 seconds later my system pops the page up, writing all the info. I increased my ram by 256 megs, and now I have near instant loading, even with Az downloading stuff in the background @ 200kbs. (Anyone that uses BT or Az knows Azand it's javaw.exe are freaking MONSTERS when it comes to cpu power and slow the whole pc down a bit when theyre on)
     
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    Azureus is worse in Linux...lately its taken to causing Xorg to memory leak, so when I get home I find all but 4mb out of 1gb of ram free, and 16mb out of 1.6gb of swap free.
     
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    Midknight Middy is SPAI! DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    I've been running cachemanXP to fix this, I just set it to auto recover memory whenever I go under 200 megs of physical Ram free,. and I've been able to leave the PC running Az for as long as 4 days before I rebooted it before going on a gaming session.

    Still the best BT client out there that I've found, but it hogs mem like a mofo
     
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    I personally prefer Bitlord... got no idea what kind or requirements its got but it runs sooo much better on my crap compie than Az....
     
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    Midknight Middy is SPAI! DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    does it do decentralized tracking? so if the trackers down you can still DL?
     
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    *nods* i have infact used torrents with downed trackers... greanted i got alittle less bad with but still worked... only about a 5% drop ive noticed in anything ive used
     
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    hmm ty, may have to try that
     
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    might just switch fully over to firefox
     
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    FireFox is a good browser, even if it is a resource whore and has its quirks. Far better than IE at any rate.
     
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    I'd find it hard to imagine they could have enough control over the plug in like Az or other very specific BT clients can, but you never know
     
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    Azureus rocks on Windows. Linux it seems J2EE sucks so much Az causes memory leaks in Xorg. I may have to look into Opera for a good BT client.
     
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    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.

    another one that sucks my ram down, but helps in the loading of huge sites
     
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    I had that tweak at first, but I hated how jerky it was. You might try 0.5 or something.
     
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    Aye its RAM intensive, could set it to 1, fractional values aren't allowed for that setting
     
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