Speed Up Firefox. Really Works!

[theafterthought]

It does make a lot of pages load faster, but apparently isn't recommended for pages with POST requests. Pretty neat, though. Opera has this enabled by default.

 

[Saikou]

cool i'll give it a try

 

[wiz4r]

I'll give it a chance.

 

[luckym]

That's amazing... it's like the browser renders much faster now as soon as it has the info from the page. I'm truly amazed.

Thank you for posting this...

 

[kkenny]

I haven't noticed any increase in speed after following this tutorial. In fact if anything total page load times have increased; now, for some reason, images can take a long time to load.

I read somewhere that not all servers like pipelined requests, and that it can slow things down in some cases. I don't know much about this area, but I can say that having used this for a couple of weeks (I knew about it before this tutorial was around), I've not noticed much if any improvement. It may just be that I'm unlucky and can't make full use of this because of my ISP or something.

I would be interested to know how many people this has worked for.

I also after testing this on my Firefox, it got noticeably slower then I wanted it to be. So luckily I reverted it back to normal. But I guess it's helping some people so I guess it probably also works only if a few other factors are in place (I'm not even sure; and I don't want to even bother)

 

[Tariqul Islam]

Great Jesse!!! +REP for you.

 

[Sohail]

A good way to speed it up would be to get rid of a few addons or plugins, it makes it start up much faster...

 

[sonicsshadow]

I didn't really notice much difference after doing this.
It loads a LITTLE faster, but not a huge amount.

 

[zapperpost]

OMG! YOU KILLED FIREFOX!
It didn't work. It makes everything slower. Much slower.

 

[DeadBattery]

I think something else to be added is the AdBlock Plus Add-on.
Sometimes ads (or even some images) take ages to load.
Plus it makes websites look neater and cleaner.

 

[zapperpost]

Adblock Plus KILLED FIREFOX TOO!!! IT TAKES EXACTLY 39 SECONDS TO LOAD AFTER BOOT, AND 4 SECONDS WHEN REOPENING! I don't use any big filters. Hmm... I need to upgrade my computer.

 

[wolfy67]

I think something else to be added is the AdBlock Plus Add-on.
Sometimes ads (or even some images) take ages to load.
Plus it makes websites look neater and cleaner.

AdBlock Plus and FlashBlock both make pages look cleaner; this is true. As for speed? On the broadband connection I haven't noticed much difference in surfing speed. When on dial-up though many pages take 1/2 the time to load, even less if the whole page is done Flash elements.

 

[jasgor9]

It does work! Nice.

 

[zapperpost]

Firefox is so slow now, especially when first clicking the icon... Yes, I have broadband, so don't comment that I might have dial-up. I'm going to revert the changes.

 

[shuboo]

As far as I can tell it definitely speeds up the load times on forums. Which is what I mostly use the internet for.

Thanks a lot.

 

[stsights]

You forgot to put this entrance "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to the value of 30 bacause if you change all the entrances that are published before this will do 30 multiple HTTP requests at the same time increasing the speed the default value I think is 4 but if you dont change this entrance no increase performance will be notorius. My connection is 512Kbps and increase a lot

 

[crisp]

The maximum value for network.http.pipelining.maxrequests is 8, so 30 is a pointless number.

and you should also note:

Higher values will cause a delay before the first request completes but will make the last request complete sooner. Higher values will also cause more of a delay if a connection fails.

pipelining also depends on having network.http.pipelining (or network.http.proxy.pipelining if you're using a proxy) set to true, and isn't supported by all servers (and may even cause problems with some that don't support it)
This in turn requires network.http.keep-alive set to true, and network.http.version set to 1.1 which I didn't see mentioned in the original post, and is possibly why some are seeing no improvements with this speed hack.

 

[jjoeridc]

i will try it later ,
thanks

 

[SunderX]

Does this actually work?

 

[kkenny]

Does this actually work?

It worked for me ;]