[Archived] Speed Up Your Mozilla Firefox

[ihateburnley]

Speed up Mozilla Firefox about 3-30x Faster!!!

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.

[modes98]

It does seem to work. My Firefox seems alot faster.

Cheers.

[Jim J]

Seems to work for me too

[den]

and me.

[Driver99]

Me too. Thanks.

[roversmum]

Wow! Great Stuff! Thanks.

[American Rover12]

That's nuts. Thanks a lot.

[AlanK]

Damn that actually works. Nice one

[LeChuck]

Works for me too, thanks.

Is there any way exporting that file or something so that I don't have to repeat the process on multiple user accounts/computers.

[grizfoot]

Wooooo mines actually running a lot faster now, thanks a lot.

[Biddy]

Wow. Mine's so fast this topic seems to have escaped from the PC & Console section.

[ihateburnley]

Wow. Mine's so fast this topic seems to have escaped from the PC & Console section.

There's always one.

[ihateburnley]

Is there any way exporting that file or something so that I don't have to repeat the process on multiple user accounts/computers.

Don't think so. There are small programs that you can download that basically do the same thing automatically but at least doing it manually you have a vague idea of how they are changing your settings.

[Ronin]

Gone back to Firefox and using the v3 beta 4 version. After the tweaking, by 'eck its fast, even on my slow BB connection. Nice one for pointing it out.

[Anti-Dingle-Brigade]

Also known as FasterFox

[joshbrfc]

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

when i enter network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. nothing comes up..

[AndyH16]

I've seen these tips in the past but always been reluctant to use them. Surely there's a reason it doesn't have those settings by default (of course everyone's connection is different). I've always wondered if it'll "corrupt" the views of more graphic intense sites, I'd be interested to know if there are any side effects from applying this.

[den]

I've seen these tips in the past but always been reluctant to use them. Surely there's a reason it doesn't have those settings by default (of course everyone's connection is different). I've always wondered if it'll "corrupt" the views of more graphic intense sites, I'd be interested to know if there are any side effects from applying this.

No side effects at all for me, as far as I can see.

[LeChuck]

I've seen these tips in the past but always been reluctant to use them.

Just go through the list again and reverse it if you find adverse side effects? Personally I haven't found any. If you want to make browsing even more pleasurable, install these two addons (takes a couple of clicks and about 30 seconds):

Flashblock

Adblock

[Anti-Dingle-Brigade]

I've seen these tips in the past but always been reluctant to use them. Surely there's a reason it doesn't have those settings by default (of course everyone's connection is different). I've always wondered if it'll "corrupt" the views of more graphic intense sites, I'd be interested to know if there are any side effects from applying this.

I believe it puts more strain on the websites server, but I'm not completely certain about that so don't quote me on it.

[AndyH16]

Cheers, might try it when I have a moment then

If you want to make browsing even more pleasurable, install these two addons (takes a couple of clicks and about 30 seconds):

Flashblock

Adblock

Adblock Plus has been on mine for a while now a must have for any firefox users, some sites are just insane until you stick this on.