Topic: Firefox Speed Optimiser Tweak

I was randomly surfing about this morning and found the following tweak. It has made page requests MAJORLY faster, but the 'downside' is that it hammers the site's server a bit more, with a lot more requests. The upside is of course a really fast browsing experience.

As always, I and NZB take no responsibility for blowing up anything whatsoever through this tweak.

1) Open up Firefox and go to “about:config“.
2) Change the settings to these:

network.http.max-connections: 96

network.http.max-connections-per-server: 48

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy: 24

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server: 12

network.http.pipelining: true

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 64

network.http.proxy.pipelining: true

3) Restart Firefox.

Er, what version?

Can find no about:config on my 0.9.3

Kall, I hope you're prepared to upgrade NZB to quad Opterons if we all start implementing this tweak of yours.

Type it into your address bar man. about:blank gives a blank page, about:config gives a config options list.

@Darkling: You reckon? It's apparently not meant for dial-up.

(Plus, according to my stats, only about 10% use firefox).

Nice tip, it made things quite a bit more responsive, especially since when I sit down to do some firefoxing I open about 10 bookmarks at once.

And when you are paying through the nose for data transfer, speed is of the essence.

Damn straight.

You can use this free utility to do the tweaking for you. It's Here.

So who has tried these settings kall suggested?

Looks good if you have a fast pc/connection. The following page gives a range of suggested settings depending on computer/connection speed....

http://www.spinchat.com/forum/msg?c=238/af4

I know the free utility The Sandman mentioned, will probably do much the same thing and quicker, but I'm one of those people that would rather know what my machine is doing, rather than let yet another utility do the thinking for me.

*nods*

I once used Norton System Works' "Auto Fix Problems" function on a friend's PC.

Lets just say the following 8 hours getting it to work again taught me a lesson about trusting Automatic things.