Speedy Firefox tweak

Arkaine23 · Aug 26, 2004

Speed up Firefox

In the Firefox address field, type "about:config" and search for the following values
network.http.pipelining -- set it to "true"
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests -- set it to "12" (or higher)
network.http.proxy.pipelining -- set it to "true"

Now create the following:
Boolean -- network.http.pipelining.firstrequest -- set to "true"
Integer -- nglayout.initialpaint.delay -- set to "0"

And you should then notice a much faster Firefox (I think this works in Mozilla, too).

-Info courtesy of kmansvibes

TC · Aug 26, 2004

Interesting - the last two entries used to be included in earlier versions, but they dropped them as of 0.9, so I figured maybe they had done that for a reason. I'll add them back and see if I can tell anything.

EyelessFace · Aug 29, 2004

Thanks! Firefox seems much faster now.

Even though I dont post much, I still read these forums.

Osirus · Aug 29, 2004

Damn.. thats sweet... Thanks for the Firefox tip!

SewerBeing · Aug 29, 2004

works great in mozilla and firefox. Thanks for the info.

Arkaine23 · Aug 29, 2004

Here's another way that's easier.

Go into your profile (for me its ~/.mozilla/firefox/default.wxm)

make a new file called "user.js" and put the following in it

Code:

user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 100);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 100000);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 32);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 4);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 2);

daniel_dynasty · Aug 29, 2004

is there a reason why it goes faster? like what the codes mean?

musawi · Aug 30, 2004

Dont know but it is working.

Arkaine23 · Sep 2, 2004

Last time I promise. Make a file /home/you/.mozilla/firefox/default.wfp/user.js
with this inside it-

user_pref("browser.blink_allowed", true);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);
user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", true);
user_pref("browser.chrome.load_toolbar_icons", 2);
user_pref("browser.display.enable_marquee", true);
user_pref("browser.display.screen_resolution", 81);
user_pref("browser.display.show_image_placeholders", false);
user_pref("browser.related.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll", true);
user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);
user_pref("clipboard.autocopy", true);
user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 8191);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("dom.allow_scripts_to_close_windows", false);
user_pref("dom.disable_image_src_set", false);
user_pref("dom.disable_open_click_delay", 1000);
user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_flip", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_move_resize", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.close", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.directories", false);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.location", false);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.menubar", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.minimizable", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.personalbar", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.resizable", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.scrollbars", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.status", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.titlebar", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.toolbar", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_status_change", true);
user_pref("editor.singleLine.pasteNewlines", 0);
user_pref("inspector.blink.border-color", "#CC0000")
user_pref("inspector.blink.border-width", 1);
user_pref("inspector.blink.duration", 2000);
user_pref("inspector.blink.invert", false);
user_pref("inspector.blink.on", true);
user_pref("inspector.blink.speed", 200);
user_pref("inspector.dom.showAnon", true);
user_pref("inspector.dom.showWhitespaceNodes", true);
user_pref("layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word", false);
user_pref("layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation", false);
user_pref("layout.xml.prettyprint", true);
user_pref("middlemouse.contentLoadURL", false);
user_pref("middlemouse.paste", true);
user_pref("middlemouse.scrollbarPosition", true);
user_pref("mousewheel.withcontrolkey.action", 1);
user_pref("mousewheel.withnokey.numlines", 10);
user_pref("mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines", false);
user_pref("mousewheel.withshiftkey.action", 3);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 32);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 8);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 4);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 750);
user_pref("plugin.expose_full_path", true);
user_pref("plugin.scan.Acrobat", "6.0");
user_pref("security.warn_entering_secure", false);
user_pref("security.warn_entering_weak", true);
user_pref("security.warn_leaving_secure", false);
user_pref("security.warn_submit_insecure", false);
user_pref("security.warn_viewing_mixed", false);
user_pref("signed.applets.codebase_principal_support", true);
user_pref("ui.submenuDelay", 50);
user_pref("ui.textSelectBackground", "darkblue");
user_pref("ui.textSelectBackgroundAttention", "lightgreen");
user_pref("ui.textSelectForeground", "white");

9mmCensor · Sep 2, 2004

Sweet. Before Firefoxes speed was insane, compared to IE it was beating it with your fists. Now its like beating it with a bat, in the junk.

Woohoo.

Thanks.

ZhengHe · Sep 3, 2004

Arkaine23 said:
Last time I promise. Make a file /home/you/.mozilla/firefox/default.wfp/user.js
with this inside it-

user_pref("browser.blink_allowed", true);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);
user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", true);
user_pref("browser.chrome.load_toolbar_icons", 2);
user_pref("browser.display.enable_marquee", true);
user_pref("browser.display.screen_resolution", 81);
user_pref("browser.display.show_image_placeholders", false);
user_pref("browser.related.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll", true);
user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);
user_pref("clipboard.autocopy", true);
user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 8191);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("dom.allow_scripts_to_close_windows", false);
user_pref("dom.disable_image_src_set", false);
user_pref("dom.disable_open_click_delay", 1000);
user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_flip", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_move_resize", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.close", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.directories", false);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.location", false);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.menubar", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.minimizable", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.personalbar", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.resizable", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.scrollbars", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.status", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.titlebar", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.toolbar", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_status_change", true);
user_pref("editor.singleLine.pasteNewlines", 0);
user_pref("inspector.blink.border-color", "#CC0000")
user_pref("inspector.blink.border-width", 1);
user_pref("inspector.blink.duration", 2000);
user_pref("inspector.blink.invert", false);
user_pref("inspector.blink.on", true);
user_pref("inspector.blink.speed", 200);
user_pref("inspector.dom.showAnon", true);
user_pref("inspector.dom.showWhitespaceNodes", true);
user_pref("layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word", false);
user_pref("layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation", false);
user_pref("layout.xml.prettyprint", true);
user_pref("middlemouse.contentLoadURL", false);
user_pref("middlemouse.paste", true);
user_pref("middlemouse.scrollbarPosition", true);
user_pref("mousewheel.withcontrolkey.action", 1);
user_pref("mousewheel.withnokey.numlines", 10);
user_pref("mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines", false);
user_pref("mousewheel.withshiftkey.action", 3);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 32);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 8);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 4);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 750);
user_pref("plugin.expose_full_path", true);
user_pref("plugin.scan.Acrobat", "6.0");
user_pref("security.warn_entering_secure", false);
user_pref("security.warn_entering_weak", true);
user_pref("security.warn_leaving_secure", false);
user_pref("security.warn_submit_insecure", false);
user_pref("security.warn_viewing_mixed", false);
user_pref("signed.applets.codebase_principal_support", true);
user_pref("ui.submenuDelay", 50);
user_pref("ui.textSelectBackground", "darkblue");
user_pref("ui.textSelectBackgroundAttention", "lightgreen");
user_pref("ui.textSelectForeground", "white");

Where should I create the file, wordpad ok?

hibner · Sep 3, 2004

I used the method in post #1. THIS ACTUALLY FRIGGIN WORKS.

I didn't even know about the "about:config" to get to all those settings. Sweet! Thanks Arkaine23. Before, I thought that Firefox 0.9 was kinda slow, now it blows the doors of IE.

DIE, MICRO$OFT, DIE

Arkaine23 · Sep 3, 2004

ZhengHe said:
Where should I create the file, wordpad ok?

This tweak might work on the Windows version of Firefox, but I have no idea where to put the file. As described in this post, the tweak is for the Linux version of Firefox.

dicecca112 · Sep 3, 2004

works perfectly in windows. In windows you put it in C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.upt

Vertical_Zer0 · Sep 4, 2004

Okay, so how do we know that it's actually working? I'm running the latest mozilla build on linux (2004090305) which came out late last night I believe. I try to constantly update so I'm using a new version every week, but I'm just wondering how do I know when this tweak is working. It SEEMS faster, but that's likely just my imagination getting excited. Will these options in the about:config page change when we use this user.js file or will they remain default? My about:config does not indicate any changes, but I have added your user.js file to my /home/MyName/.mozilla/default/yr6tod2w.slt folder (this is appearantly the mozilla default user, no?).

I even played around a bit and added your suggested user.js paramaters to my prefs.js, and that seemed to have no effect as well.

xanderjobizzle · Sep 6, 2004

OMFG! This tweak makes me feel like im on cable (as of now i only have dsl)!

Thanks soooo much
-Xander

lil layzie · Sep 6, 2004

Wow, I just tried the tweak suggestions from post #1 and my browser is quicker than before. Thanks.

Vertical_Zer0 · Sep 6, 2004

Okay, I finally got your tweaks with user.js working

I noticed slight increases, but when I compared the last user.js posted by Arkaine to the first post in this thread, I noticed some discrepancies - particularly where at first you said maxrequests = 12, then in the user.js post you wanted it to =8. Also, the nglayout.initialpaint.delay originally you set as 0, then in user.js you changed it to 750. What gives? I changed the nglayout back to 0 and it actually appears quite a bit faster than it used to.

bluediamond · Sep 6, 2004

Works great, I thought Firefox was fast before!!!

Vertical_Zer0 · Sep 6, 2004

Update: I just tried changing/adding the paramaters as per the original post in this thread on my Windows XP machine with the latest version of firefox. It helped immensely. I guess I'll try out the user.js thing on windows as well, I'll post back with results.

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