Read this if you use Firefox, or want to surf 3-5x faster

[supeg]

Found this on another message board. Works really well, you would not belive how much faster pages load.

This is cut and pasted from another forum, these settings help pages load on Firefox faster:

1. Type about:config into the address bar and hit return.

2. Alter the entries as follows (by double clicking each entry):

Set network.http.max-connections to 48

Set network.http.max-connections-per-server to 24

Set network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy to 12

Set network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server to 6

Set network.http.pipelining to true

Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true

Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 8. Any more and you may get banned from the site visited, as it may be viewed as DOS attack. Try a higher value say upto 32 but be prepared to lower the value if sites fail to load.

3. Lastly 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 recieves.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages 2-3 times faster now, even if a dial-up connection it will still be faster than before.
You will most likely need to close and reopen firefox.

 

[Don Juan]

Man I tried this back when I had Firefox 1.0.XX and it works at first, but after a few days for some weird reason it slows my connection down. Some people swear by it but it won't work for me.

 

[mixedbreed02gt]

this isn't a joke is it??? better not get some kind of virus, worm, or trojan.

 

[supeg]

Its no joke, or will not give you a trojan or virus or anything, just tweaking a few settings to allow pages to come up faster, giving you more connections at the same time and such.

 

[Tabres]

No, it works. I've had my browser set up like this for quite a while.

 

[Sniperdog]

Interesting.,. I may try this

 

[Nile]

Just did it. Seems like it's working. For how long though, I don't know.

 

[JERK!]

I'll have to look into this...thanks.

 

[shamrock216]

Ok, tried it, hopefully this doesnt screw something up!

 

[mixedbreed02gt]

have to wait till i get home to try it...computers here at school dont have firefox...they have Ignorant Explorer.

 

[Jefe]

Posted this a few months ago. Looks like theres some diff stuff though

http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=441493

 

[Espo]

Just did it, seems to be working a lot faster! I wonder if this works on a MAC? Im going to try my MacBook here in a little

 

[Wishing4Cobra]

Man I tried this back when I had Firefox 1.0.XX and it works at first, but after a few days for some weird reason it slows my connection down. Some people swear by it but it won't work for me.

+1 When i first did it few months back, it was pretty good then it just got back to normal speed. Weird.

 

[mblgjr]

For those of you that did it and claim it slowed back down....is it likely/possible that Firefox updated and when it updates; it reverts back to the older settings; thus slowing back down? Of those that have slowed; have you reviewed the settings to see if they've stayed the same?

 

[mustangkid05]

dont do it.........i did this last time someone posted it and i had to get my computer fixed a week later

 

[supeg]

If you did, has nothing to do with this, most likely infected with spyware downloading porn.

 

[Coiled03]

For those of you that did it and claim it slowed back down....is it likely/possible that Firefox updated and when it updates; it reverts back to the older settings; thus slowing back down? Of those that have slowed; have you reviewed the settings to see if they've stayed the same?

Winner!

Everytime you update to the newest version, it resets your default values.

 

[95oRANGEcRUSH]

I have the FasterFox 2.0.0 extension and it set all of those values, and then some, for me.

 

[NO-BlkLightning2K]

i just did it. if it starts messing up, how can i reset everything back to default? and yes, i know i could read the thread and manually change it all, but that would take too long. plus, i'll forget all the default setting by then.

 

[redfiresvtsnake]

Works like a charm for me. I thought it was fast before. Wow!