CyberWarez - Internet & Computer Tips

Firefox is better than IE in every department for years, and version 3 is faster than ever.

But optimizing the settings right, you can make faster but more than doubled the speed in some situations, for about five minutes of work and cost nothing.Here's what you need to do.
1. Enable pipelining

Browsers are normally polite, sending a request to a server then waiting for a response before continuing. Pipelining is a more aggressive method that lets them send multiple requests before any responses are received, often reducing page download times. To enable it, type about:config in the address bar, click double-click network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining so their values are set to true, then click double-click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set this to 8.



Keep in mind that some servers don't support pipelining, though, & in the event you often visit plenty of these then the tweak can actually reduce performance. Set network.http.pipelining & network.http.proxy.pipelining to false again in the event you have any issues.

2. Render quickly

Large, complex web pages can take a while to download. Firefox doesn't want to keep you waiting, so by default will display what it's received so far every 0.12 seconds (the "content notify interval"). While this helps the browser feel snappy, frequent redraws increase the total page load time, so a longer content notify interval will improve performance.

Type about:config and press [Enter], then right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) somewhere in the window and select New > Integer. Type content.notify.interval as your preference name, click OK, enter 500000 (that's five hundred thousand, not fifty thousand) and click OK again.

Right-click again in the window and select New  Boolean. This time create a value called content.notify.ontimer and set it to True to finish the job.

3. Faster loading

If you haven't moved your mouse or touched the keyboard for 0.75 seconds (the content switch threshold) then Firefox enters a low frequency interrupt mode, which means its interface becomes less responsive but your page loads more quickly. Reducing the content switch threshold can improve performance, then, and it only takes a moment.

Type about:config and press [Enter], right-click in the window and select New Integer. Type content.switch.threshold, click OK, enter 250000 (a quarter of a second) and click OK to finish.

4. No interruptions

You can take the last step even further by telling Firefox to ignore user interface events altogether until the current page has been downloaded. This is a small extreme as Firefox could stay unresponsive for some time, but try this & see the way it works for you.

Type about:config, press [Enter], right-click in the window and select New Boolean. Type content.interrupt.parsing, click OK, set the value to False and click OK.

5. Block Flash
 

Intrusive Flash animations are in every single place, popping up over the content you actually need to read and slowing down your browsing. Fortunately there is a simple solution. Install the Flashblock extension (flashblock.mozdev.org) and it will block all Flash applets from loading, so web pages will display much more quickly. And in case you discover some Flash content that is not entirely useless, click its placeholder to download and view the applet as normal.
6. Increase the cache size

As you browse the world wide web so Firefox stores site images & scripts in a local memory cache, where they can be speedily retrieved in case you revisit the same page. In case you have plenty of RAM (2 GB of more), leave Firefox walking on a regular basis & regularly return to pages then you can improve performance by increasing this cache size. Type about:config & press [Enter], then right-click anywhere in the window & pick New Integer. Type browser.cache.memory.capacity, click OK, enter 65536 & click OK, then restart your browser to get the new, larger cache.

7. Enable TraceMonkey

TraceMonkey is a new Firefox feature that converts slow javascript in to super-speedy x86 code, and so lets it run some functions anything up to 20 times faster than the current version. It is still buggy so is not obtainable in the regular Firefox download yet, but if you are willing to risk the odd crash or two then there is an simple way to try it out.

Install the latest nightly build (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/), launch it, type about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Type JIT in the filter box, then double-click javascript.options.jit.chrome and javascript.options.jit.content to change their values to true, and that is it - you are walking the quickest Firefox javascript engine ever.
8. Compress data

If you have a slow web connection then it may feel like you'll never get Firefox to perform properly, but that is not necessarily true. Install toonel.net (toonel.net) & this smart Java applet will re-route your web traffic through its own server, compressing it simultaneously, so there is much less to download. & it may even compress JPEGs by allowing you to reduce their quality. This all helps to cut your information transfer, useful if you are on a limited 1 GB-per-month account, & can at best double your browsing performance.

These simple tweaks will make your web browsing with Mozilla Firefox at least once as quick  it is a simple thing someone can do. Enjoy  let us know if these steps helped you!


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