firefox users read this....

[gustie]

This is simple, and works wonders for page loading speed!

Want Firefox to run 2/3 times faster? Course you do. Read on...

Here's something for broadband (will have the opposite effect for 56kers) 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: (by double clicking them)

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 recieves.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages 2-3 times faster now





taken from a recent post i read on badcaps.net by user topcat

 

[Ron]

I use firefox gustie. I hate internet explorer. I will try it out gustie

 

[gustie]

it seems to work

this system has a bottleneck as it has only 376m of ram so any little tweak helps

my system at home has 1gig and soon will have 2gig

 

[Josh]

Does anyone else get a message as soon as you put that in the address bar after hitting enter!

Here be dragons and then a message about changing these settings can be harmful to stability,security and performance of this application blah blah blah!

Is that normal gustie?

 

[gustie]

i have FF2 here

i just did the stuff with no warning

u have FF3 maybe?

works on all appartently

 

[Josh]

Seems to have worked I guess Gustie!

 

[Ron]

Faster for me. Whats your broadband speed gustie

 

[gustie]

crappy 2meg here i think!

 

[Ron]

Am the same 2meg. What broadband speed does every 1 else get

 

[Darth Wensleydale]

I get about 6.5 meg here. Middle of nowhere as well. I guess its not used too much locally during the day.

 

[Josh]

Mine says 100.0 Mbps!

 

[gustie]

josh - itake it the icon in your system tray says 100meg?

thats the adapters capability not the ISP's

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

run this for a speed test

 

[Ron]

Seen virgin are advertising 50 meg on tv

 

[Josh]

josh - itake it the icon in your system tray says 100meg?

thats the adapters capability not the ISP's

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

run this for a speed test

LMFAO you dont wanna know what I got 290kbps HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH! Not even 1/3 of a meg is that right?
Thanks Gustie for the link mate you suck LOL JK I liked it better when I thought it was quicker!
Shows you how much I know about computers!

 

[gustie]

that server is in USA

try a more local one for a fairer result

got to be some broadband speedtests in aussie

 

[spoons]

I only get 600kbps

Bloody BT :evil:

 

[gustie]

this is a UK test


http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/Bandwidth.asp


might give you better results

 

[spoons]

I'll try it but the phone exchange in my part of the world only gives you 1 meg max - so 600kb sounds about right for this time of day

BT have said they'll update it eventually

 

[spoons]

this is a UK test


http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/Bandwidth.asp


might give you better results

675 :x