Neil Posted January 16, 2005 Share Posted January 16, 2005 dude now even better Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585304086 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oddcrap Posted January 16, 2005 Share Posted January 16, 2005 Wow, it is browsing faster! I'm also on 3mbit 768.. very nice :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585304314 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homados Posted January 16, 2005 Share Posted January 16, 2005 I'm the only one that the cable is 1.5MB? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585304455 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Lyle Global Moderator Posted January 16, 2005 Global Moderator Share Posted January 16, 2005 i have never heard of 1.5... but we do have 1mbps, and 3pmps and 5bmps nothing inbetween... but it should work for you too! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585305286 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makeshift Hammer Posted January 16, 2005 Share Posted January 16, 2005 FF devs themselves have said it was a waste of time (and can cause problems) doing this. "Tweaking Firefox has become a topic of some debate, ever since the big launch party back on November 9th. Enabling features like proxy pipelining and tuning the initialpaint.delay settings, seem to create an all-around faster browsing experience. Firefox developer Asa Dotzler cleared up some of the myths surrounding these popular tweaks a few weeks back: Yes, enabling HTTP pipelining can dramatically improve networking performance. The downside, and the reason it's not enabled by default, is that it can prevent Web pages from displaying correctly. If you've enabled this, and you find pages that aren't displaying correctly, please don't blame Firefox or the Web developer. It's probably the fact that you enabled an "unsupported" feature which is incompatible with some Web servers and proxy servers. Setting the initial paint delay at zero, may get you some content on the screen faster, but it's worth noting that it will dramatically slow down the time it takes the entire page to display. Here's what's going on. Gecko, Firefox's rendering engine, is trying to optimize between the cost of waiting for a bit more data versus doing more painting and reflows as new data comes in. Waiting a bit longer before it starts painting the page gives Gecko a chance to receive more content before chewing up CPU cycles to render and reflow the document. If you drop this value down to zero or near zero, that means you'll see the page start displaying a bit earlier, but not having received much data in that short interval, you'll have a lot more paint and reflow cycles to complete rendering of the page." Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585305308 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malisk Posted January 16, 2005 Share Posted January 16, 2005 Yup, as said above, the reason pipelining isn't enabled by default (they would of course do this if there were no downsides, they aren't stupid ;)) is because on some sites you risk getting messed up page layouts and images that aren't loaded correctly. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585305459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tungsten T Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 on 3mbit dsl and it works flawlessly Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585333942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xhobbitx Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 I've never had a problem :s Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585335093 Share on other sites More sharing options...
M1K3L Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 This is where I acctually miss Windows 95. Because Internet Explorer wasn't a part of the OS itself. I like the fact I can be in a folder, and just go upto the address bar and type in a website, but that also devolpes a bad habit. That's why I'm having a hard time switching to firefox.. I love it, but I keep using IE when I don't mean to. Thanks for the tips though. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585350094 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iomega Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 nice work.. I see the diff Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585400465 Share on other sites More sharing options...
umteen Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 Mucho faster. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585400945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
general gawish Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 Works great :yes: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585417421 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lan88 Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 welcome general gawish :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585417950 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daylene Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 Using 1.5mbps Dsl, and it works great! Thanks for the info :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585418235 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cropcircles Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 Wow! I'm on 3mb and it was fast before but this is ridiculous. Screaming fast. Nice tweak. Will see if it hold up! :woot: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585418912 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesmallelder Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 Yeah, thanks, work great for even my 4mb cable modem! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585419075 Share on other sites More sharing options...
L0u1s Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 w00t ! thx a whole bunch :woot: this was the weakness of FF, but now it r0x0rzz !!! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585419205 Share on other sites More sharing options...
L0u1s Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Well I've posted yesterday that it was working fine, but today it's again slow as normal... I've checked if the boxes where filled in with the correct numbers (it was correct) So do you guys know what the problem is ? thx alot !!! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585423863 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mircleman Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 this tweak has been known for a while see link...............http://forevergeek.com/open_source/make_firefox_faster.php Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585423889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dejon Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Works awsome, thanks. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585424047 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurmoth Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Thanks for this, FF is so much faster now :yes: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585424812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckaroo Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Tweak Network Settings Extension Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585424826 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toology Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 Tweak Network Settings Extension 585424826[/snapback] Thank you. Its been around for months, honestly. And not every server can handle it, meaning it can speed up for dramatically slow down your connection to a particular site. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585425038 Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Fool] Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 that worked pretty well thanks. anyone wit 1mb settings? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585458645 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razorwing Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 wow that is fast. :cool: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/243907-faster-browsing-with-firefox/page/7/#findComment-585458721 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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