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How to Speed up Firefox page loading
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NEMESIS04
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19. August 2005 @ 09:02 |
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well ! i put 30 ! kinda slow little bit !!
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19. August 2005 @ 09:13 |
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did you shut down FireFox webbrowsing then start it back up? you need to do this in order to take affect.
you can make the max request to whatever you feel is suitable :)
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NEMESIS04
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19. August 2005 @ 09:16 |
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lol ! yeah ! !
i don't know but since i did the tweak my " msconfig " can't be load !
it open and close in a sec !
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 19. August 2005 @ 09:17
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19. August 2005 @ 09:19 |
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just want to say that this tweak was on Leo Laports Call For Help which i watch and seenhim talk about.
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NEMESIS04
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19. August 2005 @ 09:21 |
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Leo Laports is the best !!! miss that show Call4Help !
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Skym
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19. August 2005 @ 09:33 |
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Excellent Mr Geestar,
Near instantaneous pages.
Thanks for the info and your reply to my ?.
Regards, Pete.
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19. August 2005 @ 09:34 |
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i don't know but since i did the tweak my " msconfig " can't be load !
whu???
never seen Leo Laports Call For Help but glad it's out and circulating, the way it should be.
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NEMESIS04
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19. August 2005 @ 09:53 |
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here a link for the " msconfig " thing !
h**p://img396.imageshack.us/img396/9397/file00038ba.gif
has u can see it pop up and close !
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19. August 2005 @ 14:44 |
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Leo Andy Amber Mikey rock from Call For Help. It is only in Canada and Australia i think. but if u yankees get Bel Express Vue u can get it
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NEMESIS04
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19. August 2005 @ 16:12 |
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yeah live from the street of Toronto !!! ! i hope theyll stay !and keep doing there show here in Canada !!!
! oh yeah - Alien13 how u do that with IE ???
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Alien13
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19. August 2005 @ 17:39 |
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................. Do what????
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yodaddi
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20. August 2005 @ 14:27 |
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thanx for your help. you mentioned earlier in this post that it won't hurt to ask your ISP for a little boost. well, what do you think i should say to them to give me this increase in speed. btw, i use roadrunner cable. thanx for your advice.
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NEMESIS04
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20. August 2005 @ 22:06 |
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can we do the same tweak with Internet Explorer ??
speed up IE ?? can we ?
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Alien13
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20. August 2005 @ 22:13 |
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I found this on google, but comes at a loss :
Speed Up IE4 and 5--- But At Your Own Risk!
I had a long internal debate with myself about bringing you this
tweak. On the plus side, it can significantly speed the loading of
complex web pages--- Internet Explorer will load these pages *much,
much* faster. But the downside is that the tweak makes IE non-
compliant with the HTTP1.1 spec. If you employ this tweak, you'll be
making your browser nonstandard.
The HTTP 1.1 spec limits the number of simultaneous connections any
one browser can make to a given server. It's a way to ensuring there
are enough connections to go around. This IE tweak turns off IE's
built-in compliance with this standard, and lets your copy of IE open
far more simultaneous connections with a server. This means your
browser can grab many chunks of a web page at one time, speeding load
times. But it also makes your browser a connections "pig," consuming
more than its fair share of server connectivity. It makes your
browser a selfish net entity.
But this tweak is public knowledge now--- reader John Collins dug it
out of the Microsoft Knowledge Base, for example (thanks, John!)---
so I'll tell you about it, with a caveat.
This tweak can be useful as a temporary setting, or for
troubleshooting. But I do NOT recommend it as a permanent thing. Slow
web pages are usually caused by something other than the number of
allowable connections. (Look at my newly-tweaked http://www.langa.com
to see how fast pages can load with no browser weirdness at all, for
example.)
But if you want the tweak and aren't concerned about taking more than
your share of connectivity, here are John's instructions:
In Windows 2000:
1. Open Regedit (Start-->Run--> and type 'regedit' [without
quotes] )
2. Navigate to the following folder:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\InternetSettings
3. Find the keys that say:
MaxConnectionsPerServer
and
MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server
4. Change the value of both keys to some higher number
In Windows 9.x
1. Open Regedit (Start-->Run--> and type 'regedit' [without
quotes] )
2. Navigate to the following folder:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\InternetSettings
3. Create the following "DWORD" :
MaxConnectionsPerServer
4. Set the value to any high number (the default is 2)
5. Creat the following "DWORD"
MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server
6.Set the value to any high number as well (the default is 4)
More explanation: See
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q183/1/10.ASP?LN...
LKB&FR=0
Found at http://www.fiveanddime.net/iespeed.html
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juniorken
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22. August 2005 @ 01:26 |
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to gstar20: tried it before and it worked just fine, both in ie and FireFox so that's not the prob, even two different computers to control the difference. The only thing i fear is that it's a nightmare for a lot of webmasters...
i just think it's worth a discussion, i'm running an intranet-site @ my office. It's just a local site but i wouldn't be in a happy mood if people would take it down. Troubles with webservers aren't just caused by viruses, tech probs or spyware. Also a huge number of requests can cause this and it's really hard to secure yourself for this in an affordable way. Most of these servers can only handle a limited number of requests. Quite likely what will happen if everyone tweaks his system.
So it's not the quality of your tweak that's on the discussion. It's just that the limited number of requests has a reason so let's not exaggerate with this max and with the spread of the tweak because it's quite likely that future firefoxes and ie's will be protected against this if we use it too much...
btw the same article said that it's possible in f.i. apache to do a contra-tweak against this tweak, so within a while most decent webservers will be protected against this i'm afraid.
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22. August 2005 @ 09:52 |
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great responce my friend! But todays day and age is all about speed and how fast we can get there. If ever you see an article about how this affects any webpage (webservers) I will gladly post this in the beginning of my post before tweaking.
But...Until then this is the best and will still be used to speed up the page loading!
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Zenon003
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23. August 2005 @ 13:28 |
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geestar20
This is great it has speeded up alot more, my connection was fast but now it is faster.
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sutraless
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23. August 2005 @ 16:10 |
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thank's geestar20 for on the tip on FireFox, my baby is flying the speed of sound.. happy H....GHS :)
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Alien13
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10. September 2005 @ 23:47 |
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Hey, i found a couple other speed ups :
1. Open the FireFox "config" page: click into the FireFox address location bar, and type about:config, press Enter.
2. The "Config" file will appear in the FireFox browser as a page with hundreds of lines of code in it. Now, we start by enabling some advanced tabbed options:
3. Locate the line browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs . (tip: press "b" on your keyboard to quick scroll).
4. Double click on browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs . This will set its toggle to "true". Now your advanced and enhanced tabbing should be set.
5. Next: we will increase the "pipeline" RAM ability for FireFox to accomodate more packet transfer. In the same config document, scroll down to the line that says network.http.pipelining . Double click this line to set it to "true".
6. Lastly, we will increase the maximum pipeline requests to 100. Find the line that says network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. Double click on it, and a dialog box will pop up. Change the setting from 4 to 100.
7. No need to save this file. Simply close and restart FireFox, and you should see an immediate 10% to 40% increase in web page transfer speed, and faster opening of your tabbed windows! Enjoy!
If you want try it let me know how it goes :)
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11. September 2005 @ 06:59 |
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If you want try it let me know how it goes :)
Have you notice any increase with this new speed up -Alien13- ?... or is it the same?
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Alien13
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11. September 2005 @ 22:18 |
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Yeah i guess theres a little speed increase, because im speed capped it is a pretty good difference :)
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27. September 2005 @ 12:48 |
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Found this, someone wanna try it out, made by OReilly,
"Speed up page display
To display pages faster, you first need a fast CPU and memory. Don't try the following things on an ancient Pentium II, unless specifically noted here.
Setting the following preference to false is a brutal performance tweak that tells FireFox to process every byte of Web content as soon as it arrives, rather that buffering it in sensible chunks. This makes FireFox web-page handling work extremely hard but theoretically puts page content on the screen faster (recommended only for burning-hot CPUs with super-fast display cards and dial-up connections):
content.notify.ontimer /* default = true */
An even more brutal tweak shuts out all interruptions (including user input) while the incoming web page content is analyzed (not recommended at all unless FireFox is being used as an untended monitoring station):
content.interrupt.parsing /* default = true */
If content.notify.ontimer sensibly remains false, this is the time-out interval for collecting sensible chunks of incoming web page. Lower it for faster incremental page display. Lower it below 10000, and web-page handling will be working extremely hard again (recommended for dial-up):
content.notify.interval /* default = 120000 (micro-seconds) */
For Granny's slow computer, if nothing's arrived recently, then do extra buffering, which saves more CPU cycles. Set to the number of milliseconds to back off each time the network connection is found to be idle (recommended for ancient PCs on dial-up only):
content.notify.backoffcount /* default = -1, meaning never */
Make FireFox pay more attention to the mouse and keyboard at the expense of other activities. Making this a larger polling delay slows down recognition of user input but marginally improves page display:
content.max.tokenizing.time /* default = 360000 (micro-seconds) */
If the user is in the habit of opening 10 web pages (especially 10 tabs) and then sipping coffee while the pages load, making the following parameter's value larger will speed up page display (recommended for slow CPUs):
content.switch.threshold /* default = 750000 (micro-seconds) */
Make a big memory buffer for big pages. Set to a power of 2 minus 1e.g., 16385 (recommended for broadband):
content.maxtextrun /* default = 8191 */
Here are a couple of additional oddments. The following preference tells FireFox to start putting received web pages on the screen right away, even if not much content has been received yet:
nglayout.initialpaint.delay /* set to 0, default = 250 (millisecs) */
The following preference tells FireFox not to bother putting image placeholders on the screen while the real images are fetched, which will also speed page display up a bit (recommended for broadband):
browser.display.show_image_placeholders /* default = true , set to false */
Finally, on Linux/Unix, don't run FireFox with X-servers and X-clients on different machines; that can be quite slow. VNC (or PC-Anywhere, or Windows Remote Desktop) does not affect FireFox performance, except for capping the speed at which desktop updates occur. That is not a FireFox-specific effect, though.
1.11.3. Expand Your Caching
Your best defense against a slow network is a big local cache. In the Options panel, make the cache as big as you can manage. It's really the memory part of the cache that provides the performance, so if your computer is low on memory, a big disk cache won't help much. Buy more memory; FireFox will find it and use it. If you want to set the size of the memory cache explicitly, use these preferences:
browser.cache.memory.enable /* default is true */
browser.cache.memory.capacity /* -1 = size to fit, 123 = 123 Kb */ "
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4. October 2005 @ 10:20 |
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@geestar20 - cheers for the tip, it seems to work faster so far
@DVDBack23 - cheers for that, i'll bear the Linux/Unix bits in mind re the X-servers and what-not
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5. October 2005 @ 10:54 |
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@geestar20 - cheers for the tip, it seems to work faster so far
Thank you Thank you, your to kind, enjoy!
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9. October 2005 @ 14:40 |
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geestar20 - I have dial up will this make is faster,and i set the number to 30 id i make it higher will it go faster thx!
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