ATTN: FIREFOX USERS

[Lofunzo]

I just tried this and it works great. I found it on another site and wanted to pass it along:

Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. 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" from False

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" from False

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once. From 4

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 receives.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!

[Mustangs989]

I've seen this before(at the Cafe I think) and it works great You can defenitely see an improvement in speed

[Pacman]

Thanks, Lofunzo.

[Mercer Boy]

Yep, that's a must do on Firefox. I did it about 10 minutes after I started using it and was very pleased.

Just wish they'd fix that bug on adding BBCode for quoting and putting emoticons in the middle of messages...

[kentx12]

I wasnt aware of this. Thanks for the heads up Lo.

[BGbootha]

yeah man it works great, kimchi posted it here a few months ago or so. But yeah, makes a great difference.

[Lofunzo]

Yep, that's a must do on Firefox. I did it about 10 minutes after I started using it and was very pleased.

Just wish they'd fix that bug on adding BBCode for quoting and putting emoticons in the middle of messages...

Have you had any problems with this?? I read that certain sites wouldn't load but I haven't noticed it yet.

[blankman]

I do remember getting this from here earlier this year, but for those you haven't, I've seen no problems since doing it months ago

[Mercer Boy]

Every so often it won't go to a page, but IE does the same thing. The only problem I have with the program is the emoticon/code thing.

Sometimes if you go to a page with a lot of picture links the pictures might not all load right away or at all...but other than that, no major load issues (except for possible ad servers that I really don't want to load anyway).

[Tavish]

Every so often it won't go to a page, but IE does the same thing. The only problem I have with the program is the emoticon/code thing.

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