Sorry, it is busy in “Da Wannabe Famous House”, but the situation will (hopefully) be better next weekend, and several entries have already been semi-drafted1.
Today only a quick and classic tip to make your Firefox as fast as the Opera browser is, no matter how many extensions you have installed.
Type in the address bar about:config.
Type pipelining in the filter bar.
Double-click on network.http.pipelining to set its value to TRUE.
Double-click on network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and change its value to 12 or more if you have broadband.
If your computer doesn’t have that much of memory and you regularly have many tabs open, use a lower value.
If you use the coComment extension for FF your browser will always be slow add 2 more.
You can experiment with higher settings until you have found the best setting for your config.
I use 24.
You’ll see, suddenly FF is even faster than Opera is. ;-)
1 This doesn’t mean I won’t be posting. ;-)
5 have made me smarter ↓
1 Avitable // Jan 8, 2007 at 1:26 am// View all comments by Avitable//
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That’s helpful. I normally have 5-7 tabs open at once, but I’ll take any speed I can get.
2 Firefox àla Carte at alltagskakophonie.de // Jan 9, 2007 at 3:48 pm// View all comments by Firefox àla Carte at alltagskakophonie.de//
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[…] Mit dem Tipp vom Schorsch schnurrt der Feuerfuchs wie ein junges Kätzchen. Durch die Änderungen der HTTP-Pipelining Einstellungen - wie hier beschrieben - kann mehr als nur ein HTTP-Request vom Firefox abgesetzt werden ohne dass - wie standardmäßig eingestellt - der Browser jeweils erst auf die Antwort der aktuellen Anfrage warten muss. Ausführliche Informationen zum Thema gibt es hier. […]
3 ram // May 30, 2008 at 4:38 am// View all comments by ram//
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this does work…. cool stuff dude.. well done
4 Firefox Supremo // Sep 15, 2008 at 11:05 pm// View all comments by Firefox Supremo//
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Nice guide.. this certainly makes firefox a lot faster however the max pipelining requests should not be set up any higher than 8 as this is the maximum.. see here for a full rundown.. http://www.nettechguide.com/how-to-speed-up-firefox-page-loading-times/ also if you have any problems with doing the mod yourself you can download a plugin from moddev.org called fasterfox that does the same thing.
5 godarse // Sep 23, 2008 at 7:23 am// View all comments by godarse//
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Hey, your Comment Vote button spills database information. waisted…