For Firefox Sake!

[blobrana]

hum,
i know that a few of u out there use Firefox v1.x....

Here are two tweaks that will turbo boost your surfing (just been released: but tested by me and they work)

1) For those with a brain try this link...

or this onepage (save page as) version from yours truly

look for the bit where it says `FireFox on Steriods banned from Olympics`...




2) For the `beginners` (and not as powerful) try FireTune 0.6 it`ll preform an easy and fast optimization of your browser.  

[Acill]

Wow, it works great. For you Mac OS X users the same instruction page works for us as well. Its a HUGE speed boost too!!

[Amigaz]

Tried it too, very pleased.
Almost a 50% noticeable speedup.

[Floid]

As a dozen pedants will now note, pipelining may not be the nicest thing to do to 'hefty' forking webservers like Apache. Whether or not IE does it already, and whether or not Netscape let you in the olden days.

Call this a "design flaw in the Internet," but they seem to have kept the default behavior for a reason.

As to tweaking the layout reflow timers and stuff, more power to you with that, I had mixed results the last time I played with it.  :-)

[mindprober]

Acill,

Are you using the G5 optimized Fireox also?

Acill wrote:
Wow, it works great. For you Mac OS X users the same instruction page works for us as well. Its a HUGE speed boost too!!

[T3000]

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System Requirements:
This software has been tested on Windows XP only. However - it should also run on Windows 2000 / 2003.

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Unfortunatly, some of us are still using w98se. :whack:

[odin]

:-o And why would any sane person still inflict that upon his/herself?

[Waccoon]

Forget page views.  I'd like to know what they did to the file requester in 0.9 that made it dirt slow!  I have a large folder with hundreds of sub-folders, and when I browse to it with Firefox (0.9, 1.0, 1.0.2), the file requester can take a couple seconds to show the contents of the folder.  In Firefox 0.8, it is instantaneous.

odin wrote:
:-o And why would any sane person still inflict that upon his/herself?

Maybe they are using bochs on an A1200? ;-)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

T3000 wrote:

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System Requirements:
This software has been tested on Windows XP only. However - it should also run on Windows 2000 / 2003.

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Unfortunatly, some of us are still using w98se. :whack:

I didn't even read those system requirements, and yes, I still use w98se and it works fine :-)
Well, the startup of firefox is a lot faster.

[Acill]

@jdryyz

Yup I am using the G5 version. I just got the last compiled version of
it before I did the hack.

[amigamad]

I done the speed up about a month ago i say be careful this is for broadband users only and some pages take longer to load, one of the firefox  developers recomends against doing this tweak because some pages with lots of images are slower to load and it increases the load on the cpu, since doing this i have a number of sites that are slower and some dont display properly it also causes my mediaplayer to pause when playing  mp3 when the page refreshes it was fine before.

[blobrana]

Hum,
Tnx,
Yeah i should have said something along the lines of `not going overboard with the connection numbers`.

With dial up you could use a number like 4 - though experimentation helps.

With broadband you could try a number like 10 - 20 (or higher)...

i personally wouldn’t bother with increased CPU load, (as i run seti with 10-15 applications and it’s always at 100% usage) - but for very slow processors then the hack may not be suitable.

It`s simple case to `undo` though.


@T3000

Forget the software utility, do it by hand.
(see the `steroids` webpage)

[SilvrDrgn]

I've heard of this before, and have been running these tweaks for quite some time now in Firefox on my Road Runner cable modem connection.  They work great, and make a very noticeable improvement in speed!

[blobrana]

Hum,
I suppose you`ll next be telling us that you`ve already added a value of fffffe to the DWord, TcpNumConnections, in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters register,
 To increase your default connections as well?

(assuming you got sp2)


 :-)