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[butters]

i have tried this before,it works pretty good.

[TripleH13]

Firefox i amazily fast to start with but with this it just over powers all the other browsers. You can really see the differnce when you do it at the same time internet exploer is so much slower

[rogeruk]

Ive tried a few webbrowsers in my time, including Internet Explorer, Opera, FireFox and some others. So far FireFox has been the best. Internet Explorer attracts too much spyware and other unwanted files.

I would recommend using the FasterFox extenstion for FireFox. It does all the necessary tweaks to increase FireFox's preformance. Includeds mutlilanguages for all users. Main benifits are the page loading times.

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Prefetch Links
Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with Fasterfox's unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing.

Not really needed, but theres a nifty page load timer too. So you can actually see how long the pages take in seconds and miliseconds. There are quite a large range of options for FasterFox. Very n00b friendly. Brilliant extenstion to have.

http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/

[keysmaker]

Benz1435, on Mar 13 2005, 12:48 PM, said:

Get DSL speeds with dial up

mmm this tutorial works for DSL connections, or just for dialup?

[rogeruk]

It simply alteres settings within firefox which are factory set too low. Eg.. Max connections per server 2. Simply 2 conenctions per server. So increases that to 4 should make websites load quicker.

Alterting the settings wont make yr downloads go any faster lol. So "Get DSL speeds on dial up" isnt totally correct. Install FasterFox its alot easier

[anwiii]

Benz1435, on Mar 13 2005, 12:48 PM, said:

At one time Opera was the fastest available web browser, that time has ended. By default firefox has its turbo features shut off due to an error it used to display with tables. Use the tutorial below to add 200shots of nos to firefox, and increase page speeds up to 4 times, making firefox the fastest browser.

1) Open Firefox and on the address bar write about:config and hit enter

[find the string]
network.http.pipelining
double click and change the value to true

[find the string]
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
double click and change the value to 34

[find the string]
browser.turbo.enabled
double click and change the value to true

now close and restart and see the new amazingly new speed of firefox...

i couldn't find browser.turbo.enabled but i did change the pipelining mods and seemed to do the trick. what is this turbo mod. was this for the earlier version? i'm using 1.5

anyway, last time i used firefox, it wouldn't load some websites correctly for some reason. i decided to give them another try to see if. i was always impressed with the speed though, even without the mod fixes. hopefully i wont have to switch back to i.e. in fact, i would have rather used netscape than i.e. as well.

anyway, anyone know why firefox had problems loading certain websites? not displaying the whole page on some sites?

thanks for the info found here. trap17 has loaded twice as fast now in the forums

[htdefiant]

Me neither. I have no browser.turbo.enabled on 1.5. But the tricks work well on most website. Some of them are the same.

[savge17]

Nice tut, it has helped me increase my speeds by a little. But I still think that with wanting better speeds on the net u might as well not mess with it and go grab some dsl. Its cheaper these days also.

[gaea]

I found this, http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.ph...ht=quick+launch, thread. Evidently browser.turbo.enabled is a left over switch...it doesn't actually do anything. I'm going to try to pipelining one, makes sense to me.

[dark_drgn]

I tried it, it sorta worked, not too big a difference but noticeable, its like you downloaded the google browser accelerater.

[flamesan]

At my mozilla firefox version 1.5.0.1


I haven't find browser.turbo.enabled string

[kyalkalay]

It making refresh again ang again on my mozilla firefox , I don't know what happening.

[None]

It doesnt work with me, why it not work? I got firefox 1.5 Does the client it has any meaning for working? Well, propably it works, but I dont feel any difference for before and now.

[TiKiRoKhaN]

Thanks man, Good tutorial

[DaeFenris]

Thanks for this. I remember doing this on my home PC, and I wanted to do it on my work PC but didn't have a link to a tutorial. I'm sure I could have found one (too lazy to look, ha!), but I just happened to see this one. Hooray!

[realthor]

regular users shouldn't really care if they speed up their browsing cause it's pretty safe but website and server admins have real trouble with these NOSed browsers as they open and often preload tons of stuff that won't even be viewed and eat bandwitch so there've appeared solutions to ban or not allow you to browse certain sites. I don't know very well the admin part but i guess i've read there's even an apache module to deal with this problem.

I used to use fasterfox untill i've read about this thing. Now i turned off the turbocharged option and i use it without risking to get banned temporarly or permanently and of course i don't want my sites to get their bandwitch sucked for no advantage(most of preloaded pages won't even be seen as they are preloaded just in case), so i'm the ones to prevent this...

Anyway...how would u feel if your sites' bandwitch would be consumed by only a few folks that have prefetch enabled and other tricky options? You'd be forced to buy extra bandwitch for no real gain.

Just my 2 cents...think of it. Cheers!

[matto]

my browser doesn't have a browser.turbo (therefore no browser.turbo.enabled), so I'm unable to change that one. Any ideas about why, or what to do? o_O

Actually... I tried adding the string 'browser.turbo.enabled' with value 'true' -- will this produce the same outcome, you think?

[shibo]

I got it off another forum. I tried it and it worked perfectly, now pages load much faster than before in firefox.

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1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true" from False

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" from False

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 500 requests at once. From 4

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 receives.

OR download the FasterFox extension, it does all the above for you and there are more features.

That's it. If you're using dial-up, don't bother to follow whatever is above

U will Never Know Till U have Tried.

Notice from jlhaslip:

This same information is also available in the tutorial Section here at the Trap.
Use the Search feature before randomly copying information from other sites.
Maybe research and tell us if the technique also works in the new Firefox 2.0???
Copied material quoted to reduce credits for this posting. Consider this a verbal warning.
As soon as I find the right Tutorial, I will be merging this topic into it.

[TeeCee06]

This is really awesome, i found out about this a LONG LONG time ago like right when Firefox came out, the crazy thing is it actually works, there are tons of other things you can do but its a little hard to explain.

[Shunkan Idou]

Does it really work that well? I might try it if it won't interfere with Rapidshare or anything like that.

[quakesand]

Oh, so that's what fasterfox did to my firefox...
cool.

[Danny]

I don't have browser.turbo.enable

[bhavesh]

I have found some settings for a faster connection net.

Find network.http.max-connections
This setting determines how many simultaneous HTTP connections can be made. Default is 24, change it to 48.

Find network.http.max-connections-per-server
This setting determines how many simultaneous connections can be made to a single server. Default is 8, change it to 16. But setting it too high will create problems and your connections could be refused.

Find network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy
This setting is useful if you use a proxy server. Which determines how many connections to keep alive at any time. Default is 4 set it to 8.

Find network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server
If you dont use a proxy server then try this. Default is 2 change it to 4 or 8.

[kdr_98]

Those last can be used on a broadband connection (xDSL or Cable) as well.
The settings are also in a default windows configuration and can be used with Internet Explorer as well.

[FLaKes]

thats great, I have been using Firefox for a long time, and I just found out about that config thing. My Firefox is pretty fast, I bet that will make it a whole lot faster. My only complain though, on the Firefox, is that it is noticeably slower when I first open it. If i click the open Firefox icon, and a couple of seconds later I click the open explorer icon, explorer beats Firefox by a lot of time.