Make Firefox 4.0.1 run faster :-)

13 years ago

As I was reading that, I remembered doing it for an earlier version of FF.
Thanks I bookmarked it this time.
One thing though if you do this
"Then find network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. Right click on it and click Modify. The default value is 4. Change it to 15 as an ideal value."
You may have problems with some of the more popular shopping carts used on websites. They where seeing the requests as attacks.

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askloz 13 years ago

I've not had any problems with shopping carts today. Been to quite a few of them bud.
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- ThomM 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by askloz
  
  I've not had any problems with shopping carts today. Been to quite a few of them bud.
  
  It was with an older version of FF and about three years ago.
  Sounds like the problem was solved.
  Glad it's ok now, making those changes did make FF fly
  
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Bradley J Anderson

13 years ago

I tweak the sh*t out of everything, too, Loz.

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askloz

13 years ago

I'll go take a look bro...
the link i supplied above, i only performed these steps
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Type about:config into the Firefox address bar and press Enter
Then if Firefox shows a warning massage, press the button ‘I’ll be careful, I promise!’
Type network.http.pipelining into the filter bar to find it under preference name column. Then double click on it to change its value to True to enable HTTP pipelining.
Into the filter bar type network.http.proxy.pipelining to find it. Then change its value to True.
Then find network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. Right click on it and click Modify. The default value is 4. Change it to 15 as an ideal value.
Next make a new integer value (to do this right click on a blank space and click: New –> Integer) name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and press OK. Finally set its value to 0 and click OK.
Finally create a Boolean value (to do this right click on a blank space and click: New –> Boolean) name it network.http.pipelining.firstrequest and click OK. Then set its value to True.

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and its running 3 times faster re: page load times. its still using up a lot of ram though, i havent figured out a way yet to reduce that, seems the ram doesn't get refreshed when a browser tab is closed, appears to me that they are storing the cache in ram, but then again, doubt it cos that's a security issue.

got any ideas, other than reducing the 6 by default to 2 as I have done, which i believe equates to 2% of ram, so in my case 8GB x 2%. at current, its using 224MB of ram... thats way way too much i reckons.

Loz

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g36

13 years ago

I'm still using Firefox 3.6

I already edited current firefox in about:config to be faster and I don't want to update to version 4 because I don't know whether this new version works in the same way with the old 3.6, not to mention some of the plugin may not work.

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askloz

13 years ago

its a LOT better, and faster than 3.6

Originally Posted by g36

I'm still using Firefox 3.6

I already edited current firefox in about:config to be faster and I don't want to update to version 4 because I don't know whether this new version works in the same way with the old 3.6, not to mention some of the plugin may not work.

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Bradley J Anderson

13 years ago

FF has had a memory leak since day one. I don't have a clue why they haven't fixed it yet.

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askloz 13 years ago

i think this is being addressed in FF.5, released in June.

Originally Posted by Bradley J Anderson

FF has had a memory leak since day one. I don't have a clue why they haven't fixed it yet.
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- Bradley J Anderson 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by askloz
  
  i think this is being addressed in FF.5, released in June.
  
  It's about time. It's not like this is a new problem.
  
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