forevergeek posted this list of Firefox (or Mozilla) mods. Some initial testing proved them to be quite effective, but as someone who runs websites, may I suggest you be a good netizen and set your maxrequests to something friendlier, like 10.
Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:
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"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
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.
If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!
Posted by gonzo on January 28, 2005 at 12:00 AM PST #
Posted by Yusuf Goolamabbas on January 28, 2005 at 01:10 AM PST #
Posted by 192.18.42.11 on January 28, 2005 at 06:59 PM PST #
Posted by jockey111 on January 31, 2005 at 09:51 AM PST #
oh so hoooooooorny
Posted by 67.126.130.219 on May 05, 2008 at 10:21 PM PDT #