How to speed up Firefox with pipelining
From SID Solutions Wikipedia
Firefox has the ability to utilize HTTP Pipelining. This tweak is for people who have broadband connections. Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining, it will make several requests at once, which really speeds up page loading.
Warning! Some websites might not appreciate the extra simultaneous connections you create. Adot's notblog at MozillaZine has a disclaimer for enabling HTTP pipelining
Open Firefox and type the following in the address bar and hit enter:
about:config
Scroll down looking for the following configuration options:
- network.http.pipelining
- network.http.proxy.pipelining
- network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Set network.http.pipelining to true
Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true
Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
You can try to set it higher but I believe the maximum is 8.
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.
Your pages should load MUCH Faster now!
If you start experiencing download and page errors, try backing off on the network.http.pipelining.maxrequests setting.
--Xtremebassist 19:39, 9 October 2005 (CDT)
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