HOW-TO: Firefox Network Performance

[gyjanos]

My favourite Firefox keyboard shortcuts

'		find as you type link
/		find as you type text
C-h		history
C-g		find again
C-S-g		find again backwards
C-TAB		next tab
C-PGDN		next tab
C-PGUP		prev tab
A-Enter		open address in new tab
C-0		restore text size
A-d		select location bar
C-l		select location bar
C-1		select tab 1 (to 9)

The full list of keyboard shortcuts is here:
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard

[Mez]

whoa... is it just me or is it my version...for some reason im able to find about 25% of the ones listed....

If they don't exist, create them

[krusbjorn]

whoa... is it just me or is it my version...for some reason im able to find about 25% of the ones listed....

easiest way is just to open ~/.mozilla/firefox/*your default firefox profile*/user.js with a text editor, and paste the lines into that file.

[FLeiXiuS]

**RECOMMENDED FOR BROADBAND USERS ONLY**

Ok so I'm sure a vast majority of you have had problems with firefox running slowly. Not only is it the IPv6/4 strings but a enormous amounts of others.

So whats the catch? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! It's all about tweaking and this is how I did it.

(Credits to google/memphis users for explaing a majority)

Open firefox and in the address bar enter:

     $ about:config

For the following below you can enter a portion of the string as a quicker way of finding it .

     $ browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs = true

     $ browser.xul.error_pages.enabled = true

     $ network.dns.disableIPv6 = true

     $ network.http.max-connections = 48

     $ network.http.max-connections-per-server = 24

     $ network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy = 12

     $ network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server = 6

     $ network.http.pipelining = true

     $ network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 8

After this, restart firefox and voila. Light-speed at the palm of your hands.

Other firefox customization guides, thankyou notos.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=218169

[JimmyJazz]

seems to work, thanks.

[poofyhairguy]

Can you please take away the $ signs so I can cut and paste into the filter flexi?

[moment]

Can you please explain what these parameters are? Why they are not the default then?

[luca_linux]

Great job!

[Toddy]

There is a "Tweak Network" firefox extension (http://www.bitstorm.org/extensions/tweak/) that does many of these changes.

[XDevHald]

VERY impressive