Comments on: Make Firefox Faster

By: vuahung

vuahung — Tue, 03 May 2005 01:39:44 +0000

how can i delete one string if i set it wrong instead for integer? pleasy explain clearlyer!!!
please!

By: Mathew

Mathew — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:16:29 +0000

#37 > Anyways, (almost) every firewall violates the TCP/IP protocol by not answering hackers, rules exist to be broken. At least some of them do.

By: Mathew

Mathew — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:12:21 +0000

#41 & #42 > I guess it’s network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server. I just set it to 10, and now I’m able to download more than 2 at a time.
:-)

By: mayank

mayank — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 14:38:29 +0000

‘lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″.’ can’t do it.right click acts on the entries.so not able to name it nglayout.intialpaint.delay to 0.
can anyone tell how they have done.

thks in advance

By: TRG

TRG — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 23:37:20 +0000

Oprea still rocks once you figure out it.. it free well if you know how to look for registioon codes at an Warez site. I tried firefox dont care for it.

By: Mistadc

Mistadc — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:46:05 +0000

Instead of you lot trying to get faster browsing by ‘tweaking’ you borwsers i ask, why are you trying to get better things for free? Why not just get a faster connection and PAY for faster internet rather than f***ing up servers?

*Cough Freelancers Cough*

HAha..Ballers..

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:03:46 +0000

*Cough Freelancers Cough*

By: Ronny

Ronny — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 03:58:51 +0000

to get rid of an entire line thats not suppose to be there (i.e something you added) in about:config, just right click on the line and select “reset” then close all firefox windwos (ALL OF THEM) and wheny ou restart they should be gone.

by the way, i didn’t notice any speed enhancement with this trick. ahh welll…

By: Julz

Julz — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 04:18:25 +0000

man this is friggin fast!

By: crontab

crontab — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 02:49:06 +0000

Here is a better tweak guide:
http://workingbath.com/archives/2005/01/04/firefox-speed-tweak/

By: tallphil

tallphil — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:26:04 +0000

wow, I’m on a university ResNet connection which has got stupidly high bandwidth and websites now download literally two or three times faster! Fantastic!

By: DTM

DTM — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 04:45:44 +0000

If this isn’t supposed to work on dial-up then there’s something wrong with mine tonight. I’m usually in bed by now, but the speed increase has been so great i can’t believe my eyes!!! I just had to stay up to test as many pages as possible to make sure i’m not dreamin’!!

By: Tabitha

Tabitha — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 07:45:36 +0000

Comment 18 by AJ, – i almost wet me knickers hahahahahah!

By: lewin

lewin — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 00:03:01 +0000

me too

Now I’bve lost all my bookmarks

pain in the arse

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 05:46:57 +0000

hi,

I set this, and when I restarted my comp, the settings were erased!! How do I get it to remember the settings????

By: DotWind

DotWind — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 19:29:05 +0000

how to surf faster with firefox

By: Max

Max — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 17:57:12 +0000

The BEst HYIP Guide

By: Marco (Griffith) Jardim

Marco (Griffith) Jardim — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:40:15 +0000

MSN Messenger opens hotmail on IE because of it’s integration of both, some of the things aren’t very usefull like the status icon next to the person that sent you the mail, but the alerts and calendar are quite helpfull.

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:59:56 +0000

Daniel, MSN just uses IE automatically because it’s also made by MS. It bypasses the default browser.

By: Unforgiver

Unforgiver — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:58:05 +0000

Opera??? Sure, if you want to PAY for a browser. Tard….

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 02:49:10 +0000

MSN // FIREFOX ??

Alright my MSN messenger will NOT open FIREFOX to get my Hotmail? AND YES my Firefox is my default and NOO I do NOT want to buy MSN plus!!! CAN anyone figure this one out?

By: DT

DT — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:42:24 +0000

I fiddled with the setting of Firefox (about:config) and now it doesn’t work well. How do I restore default setting

By: vacantmind

vacantmind — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:35:33 +0000

bah, fire fox sucks... get opera http://www.worstluck.com

By: Waynester

Waynester — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:02:07 +0000

forgot to say i have 2 MEG Broadband DSL modem etc

By: Waynester

Waynester — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:01:19 +0000

Hi everyone, i tried ALL these tips for making FIREFOX faster, but when i close the browser down and open it up again, ALL the settings are back to normal!

how do i do it so they stay to the new faster ones ?

By: OldRetiredGeek

OldRetiredGeek — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:32:27 +0000

Regardless of what any of the comments say, this enhancement works. I use a cheesey dial-up through a no-name ISP and my pages load much, much faster (except https://... pages for some reason).
Some of the previous pages which used to take close to a minute to load are now finished in less than 5 seconds.

By: Alaa

Alaa — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 17:27:53 +0000

Okay, I did the tweaks, but how do i make everything back to the default settings again??

By: Scott Kingery

Scott Kingery — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:58:49 +0000

I have all kinds of tips here:
http://tinyurl.com/5csxt

You’ll find a link to my extensively commented user.js file that you can just download and pop into place.

By: downforce

downforce — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:16:56 +0000

You can also download this which changes more settings:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Browser-Tweak/Mozilla-Optimizer.shtml

By: Shag

Shag — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:52:17 +0000

Wow, amazing how many stupid comments are made by people who don’t know what the fark they’re talking about. HAHAHA!

By: Mouse

Mouse — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 00:47:34 +0000

http://www.tweakfactor.com/articles/tweaks/firefoxtweak/4.html

By: Martin Zucker

Martin Zucker — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:12:21 +0000

For a non-techie medical writer who sticks his head into a lot of websites for research, this Firefox speed-up trick works nicely. So what’s the bottom line on the value? Can I leave it on 30 and sleep at night, or do I set the value down to 8. I don’t want to contribute to destruction of cyberenvironment. Thanks. Marty

By: joe

joe — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 20:30:15 +0000

welcome to like 8 months ago! hahah!

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:04:20 +0000

r.e. #45

It has been the case that support for pipelining has been dropping across the web. The most likely culprit are the recent load-balancing mechanisms which may not respect the order of the requests and thus break pipelining.

It seems that few newer software developers really bother to test their full compliance to HTTP/1.1, as IE and Firefox have pipelining disabled by default – the vicious circle completes and support for this advantageous mechanism is dropping not improving…

This has forced Opera to rewrite the heuristics for how they toggle pipelining per server for their V8.0 – they have observed more problems with pipelining than ever before.

The only hope is that as Firefox market share increases, developers may start to realise the advantages to finally supporting something that should have been implemented MANY years ago. Pipelining can clearly reduce the amount of packets per connection, and thus allow servers to handle more concurrent connections (it is ironic that a mechanism that should help load-balancing is being broken by that very class of software…)

By: SocialChameleon

SocialChameleon — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 02:01:16 +0000

After making these tweaks, I noticed Firefox timing out consistently on a good amount of the websites I visit. After un-tweaking the tweaks, everything was back to normal.