patsfan13

This is something I came across that really speed up the Firefox browser, IF you have broadband:


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"

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

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" 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 "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 recieves.

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

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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."

patsfan13

I use it and this configuration helped a lot,let us know what you find.

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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."

BelichickFan

I think the "FasterFox" extension does the same stuff. That's what I use instead of doing it manually.

BelichickFan

LMAO - not if you know what you're doing

BelichickFan

NEM's either been drinking or is off his meds . . . not sure which . . .

alamo

To return to the original OT... those on very slow computers or those who are marginal on RAM memory might be hurt rather than helped. Your computer will not be able to handle all those extra connections and will seem nonresponsive until they all load. And the initialpaint=0 setting will cause the screen to need to redraw as more of the page comes in, which is hardly noticeable on a fast computer but might actually delay things on a slow one.

But for most people these are good suggestions.

RayClay

I use firetune. Gives you 5-6 different settings based on your computer speed/internet speed.

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BelichickFan

Speaking of FireFox, can anyone help with :

On FireFox I have lose the ability to have threads with unread posts bolded and those where I've read the last post not bolded.

It works fine on IE for me but I prefer FireFox.

It's happened before, I thought I had to clear the cache but that hasn't helped. So maybe it was something similar but different to that that I need to get that working again . . . does anyone know ?

Thanks.

BelichickFan

Forget it - seems to be fixed from running FasterFox and FireTune

Fogbuster

FasterFox I have and it works fine, but "FireTune" ?? Can't find it. What's is supposed to do?