Supercharging Firefox- Tech Tips Needed

16 Feb 2007

Just reinstalled windows on the laptop and decided to use firefox for web browsing, but can't find the fine tuning details i had to speed things up last time i used it.
Any tips, tricks or good sites to help get things loading quicker etc. would be most useful, Ta very much :thumbup:

16 Feb 2007

I have a tip :shock:
You are very technical these days! confused

I need a bit of good old fashioned Meaty flirting :twisted:
There!......helpful aren't I? lol

Fee
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16 Feb 2007

Technical? you should see my new playarea at work, it's like Nasa biggrin

:bounce:
I shall slip into your box later with some flirtyness :rascal: passionkiss

16 Feb 2007

a link I had from some techie discussion we had about a year ago

16 Feb 2007

Thankyou Miss Swallows passionkiss

16 Feb 2007

No problem meaty, can I collect the snog in person please :rascal:

16 Feb 2007

Quote by kazswallows
No problem meaty, can I collect the snog in person please :rascal:

well i can't post it to you yer daft bint :giggle:

16 Feb 2007

:thumbup:
spot on guys, been looking for this for ages.
word to the wise, keep a note of the changes as the next firefox upgrade will probably reset all your values.

16 Feb 2007

The Meatmeister has been neglecting his duties???? :shock:
either I've been abducted by aliens tonight because everything here is a bit ...surreal and not quite all there... or there is definately something wrong here & I'm the only one who's normal :crazy:

16 Feb 2007

Quote by Darkfire
The Meatmeister has been neglecting his duties???? :shock:
either I've been abducted by aliens tonight because everything here is a bit ...surreal and not quite all there... or there is definately something wrong here & I'm the only one who's normal :crazy:

Its those mushrooms wink

16 Feb 2007

Quote by Pete_sw
:thumbup:
spot on guys, been looking for this for ages.
word to the wise, keep a note of the changes as the next firefox upgrade will probably reset all your values.

just been reading about profiles, where you can configure different setups and recall them

17 Feb 2007

The link for the Firefox tweaks seems to have out of date info. Did find the following from it however
I'm trying this plugin now and will report back in a few days

20 Feb 2007

my mistake, typing 'about:config' does work after all.
An update on the FasterFox plugin, Firefox still works but any faster? I dunno

21 Feb 2007

Hmmm - missed this. Details from my notepad file:

"about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

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 " " to "true"
Set " " to "true"
Set " " 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 " " and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

Have also recommended a very good book on the subject to Meaty. smile