HOWTO: Speed up Firefox II

[Pjotor]

You can speed up your Firefox browser by doing the following:

cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/

gedit user.js

Everyone should put there:

user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("plugin.expose_full_path", true);
user_pref("ui.submenuDelay", 0);

and after that one of the following depending on your computer and your connection:

FAST COMPUTER, FAST CONNECTION

user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);

FAST COMPUTER, SLOWER CONNECTION

user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);

FAST COMPUTER, SLOW CONNECTION

user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);
user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 3000000);
user_pref("content.maxtextrun" 8191);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 32);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 8);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 4);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);

SLOW COMPUTER, FAST CONNECTION

user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 3000000);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 1000000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 1000000);
user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 4095);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 1000);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_status_change", true);

DIAL-UP

user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 750);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 32);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 8);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 4);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_status_change", true);

From: http://www.tweakfactor.com/articles/...oxtweak/4.html

[Toxicity999]

sounds Identical to faster fox of winows

[kingsidy]

exactly what i was thinking. that extension is often overlooked.

[wwood]

Minor correction.

Shouldn't there be a starting double quotes in line 7 of the

FAST COMPUTER, FAST CONNECTION

So it should read

user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);



Correct?

[simplyw00x]

Most of these settings are available in FasterFox, and many of them are irresponsible and cause excess traffic on websites, thus pushing up bandwidth bills. Re-posting this by telling people to edit user.js instead of the usual about:config doesn't change how old and bad these 'improvements' are.

[M4LFUNCT10N]

Not sure if i'm the only one, but doing those changes actually slowed down firefox for me.

[dr_d]

I think it would be nice if you would provide more detailed info about the connection speed these mods are optimized for.

For example, I have 512KB broadband. I know it's not a slow connection, but does it count as a fast connection or a slower connection?

much appreciated.

[dagr8tim]

How about just typing "about:config" in the address bar?

I know I've done this in other distro's.

[xXx 0wn3d xXx]

I think it would be nice if you would provide more detailed info about the connection speed these mods are optimized for.

For example, I have 512KB broadband. I know it's not a slow connection, but does it count as a fast connection or a slower connection?

much appreciated.

I would think that it would be a faster connection. That's just my optinion since it generally is a fairly fast connection and slow connections means dial-uo or isdn.

[TuxCrafter]

Thx for the info is there a big diffrence in using fasterfox?

also i thing this is wrong

gedit user.js

it should be

gedit prefs.js

Thx again 8)

Ps this is wrong info prefs.js gets overwriten i have made a new file called user.js and used it