Mozilla/Firefox speed tweak

[hardrock 1]

This was posted on another forum. I've been using it for a few days now and have noticed a definite performance boost. No adverse effects either.

1. Type "about:config" in the address field.

2. Set the value of network.http.pipelining to "true".

3. Set the value of network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to "100".

4. Set the value of network.http.proxy.pipelining to "true"

5. Set the value of nglayout.initialpaint.delay to "0"

If the variable isn't there, you'll have to create it yourself. To my knowlege, only "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" isn't in Mozilla by default. (for those of you that have to create it, keep in mind that it uses an integer value so you'll have to use the integer option.)

To add a variable, all you have to do is right-click (anywhere in the variable listing) and select new. Pick the type of variable, and then give it a name and value. All changes take place immediately.

[shinRaiden 0]

You can also try moox CPU-specific optimized builds of release, branch, and trunk builds. Internationalized builds also available.

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Firefox M3 & Thunderbird M3 Builds

M3 builds are highly optimized builds that also contain code optimized for the SSE2 instruction set. Given the nature of M3 builds, they are designed only for the following processors that support SSE2:

* AMD Opteron

* AMD Athlon FX

* AMD Athlon 64

* AMD Sempron (3100+)

* Intel Xeon

* Intel Pentium M

* Intel Pentium 4

* Intel Celeron D

* Intel Celeron (1.7GHz - 2.8GHz)

Firefox M2 & Thunderbird M2 Builds

M2 builds are highly optimized builds that also contain code optimized for the SSE instruction set. Given the nature M2 builds, they are designed only for the following processors that support SSE:

* AMD Athlon XP

* AMD Athlon MP

* AMD Sempron (2200+ - 2800+)

* AMD Duron (1.0GHz - 1.8GHz)

* Intel Pentium 3

* Intel Celeron (533MHz - 1.4GHz)

Firefox M1 & Thunderbird M1 Builds

M1 builds are generally optimized builds that also contain code optimized for the MMX instruction set. M1 builds are targeted for the following processors:

* AMD Athlon

* AMD K6-2

* Intel Pentium 2

* Intel Pentium Pro

* Intel Pentium

[Placebo 29]

I love Firefox but I get one really annoying bug with it.......

If I accidentally click "Go" or even move my mouse over it it freezes my PC, then when it comes back each time I click a link it freezes for 5-10 seconds, only fix is a reboot, not so bad at home but worse here as this PC is slower. It's been there from pre-release versions up to official 1.0 and nightly builds, don't know if it's something in the way I configure my PC or what, it's hard to google such a problem

[MSpencer 0]

My firefox keeps cloning instances of itself... I can't run firefox again unless I go into task manager and hunt down the still running instances... it's really annoying.

[raedor 8]

thx hardrock.

firefox works very well here.

[SpeedyDonkey 0]

Yeah I was gonna post this tweak here a couple of months ago but forgot about it. It works like a charm

[void_false 1]

Firefox is brilliant! None browser worked that good on my PC. And I love its download manager - Linux style.

[billybob2002 0]

Can somebody explain Firefox and why it is so special? Also, can it "hide" your IP address....

[hardrock 1]

The best way probably is to try it out, once you get used to it you'll love it. IMO faster than IE, better overview, possibility of tabs, nice page-search bar in the new 1.0 version, WAY more CSS features than IE (will give you nicer graphics on some pages) . . .

I tell you, try it and don't say "Nah that's not good" just because something is not exactly the same as in IE, you'll love it by the time.

[void_false 1]

Not to say it is completely free and open source.

Quote[/b] ]can it "hide" your IP address

You always can use proxy.

[gandalf the white 0]

use proxy.

will that fool any IP bans on your name?

also, what do you need for it?

[benu 1]

Can somebody explain Firefox and why it is so special? Also, can it "hide" your IP address....

No browser can hide your ip address. And if you even have to ask about this then the explanation would take too lon

But you can always use anonymizer services. Those should work with every browser out there.

Firefox is nice because it does not have all that gaping security holes that IE has and because of the many plugins that can be installed to add the functionality you want it to have.

[billybob2002 0]

Can somebody explain Firefox and why it is so special? Also, can it "hide" your IP address....

No browser can hide your ip address. And if you even have to ask about this then the explanation would take too lon  

But you can always use anonymizer services. Those should work with every browser out there.

Firefox is nice because it does not have all that gaping security holes that IE has and because of the many plugins that can be installed to add the functionality you want it to have.

I will look up anonymizer service then. Anyway, the reason for IP address to be masked is that I'm on cable and I hate the perm. IP address that they give you....