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Speed up firefox

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Heres a cool little tip to speeding up firefox from ipkonfig.

+ open a new tab and type "about:config"

+ whoa that is a lot of configuration optionss - filter for "network.http.pipelining" - you should get 2 results.

+ change the boolean value of the first result to "true"

+ change the second value ("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests") to how many requests you want as max. I set mine to 20.

+ right click and create a new integer. call it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set the value to 0.

close firefox completely and reopen it. this should make multiple page loadings a bit quicker. seems to be working all right for me.

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my firefox has been very very unstable ever since I reinstalled all my warez and os on my new RMA harddrive...

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling firefox, but it still crashes on me...seems like at least once a day

any ideas??
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Just what other progs are u running?

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Post by danz »

usually just firefox and J.River Media Center. Sometimes MATLAB.

but I don't see any correlation with the other programs...it crashes even if its the only one running...
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Post by Bill Drayton Jr. »

Hey that same procedure works for mozilla as well!

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Ha, you are all slow. Mine's been running with lots-o-pipes since I started running it months ago. :p Nyah!

:D

I believe there was an article on HardOCP about this...

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thx fer sharing :D

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Post by enderzero »

In general, how long does Firefox take to time out when you mistype a url? If I type in enderzerp.net Firefox goes into Not Responding mode for a full 90 seconds before finally timing out and returning control to me. McNevin suggested it might be due to this tweak but I set it back to default (even deleted the "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" key from the prefs.js file in Admin\App Data...) but the results are the same.

What happens when you mistype a URL?

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Mine is instant... Pops up the error. Click Ok, control is back to me instantly.

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Post by R3C »

Oh, and I am using a similar tweak. I increased the pipelines, but didn't do a couple of the other things that I originally read about.

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