This is one helpful little tip that i ran across today when surfing the internet. Thanks to The Unrestricted Forums for this tip. He admits that he found the guide. But as i don’t know the orignal author i can’t thank them. But should they ever read this. I would like to say a big thank you.
I aren’t quite sure how it works (I just aren’t that tech minded) but i do know that it does work. The steps are simple to follow and should only take a few moments. So with no further ado here’s the guide.
1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. (This will bring up your firefox config. Don’t panic, its not scary.) 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:
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like
3010. This means it will make3010 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.
Once you’ve done all that. Just close the about:config tab and all is done. Now some of those slow loading sites should speed up a bit.
I implemented this browser tweak just an hour ago. So far its made slow sites load quite a bit quicker. Please note this was written for broadband users. If your not on broadband then it might not be a good idea to edit anything. Or if you do. At least keep the default values incase things go pear shaped (Wrong). Then you can just put the orignal values back.
Happy faster browsing
PLEASE NOTE!
As mentioned here this may be seen as abuse by some servers and may end up in your account been suspended or terminated.
Thanks to AdamF for the warning.
Works Great!
Thanks for the tip!
No problem.
I thought the same as you when i first read it also.
This can result in up to 30 requests hitting the webserver at once from your browser, rather than the default 4. Some sites (B$ included) could interpret this as abuse of service as in the logs it appears you’re hammering them.
Just a warning!