Speeding Up Firefox and IE Loading Times

[Dearster]

I recently came across a site which shows you exactly how to change a setting on your browser window to allow pages to load up alot quicker.

Not sure if it works on dial up also, only tried it on broadband.

By carrying out these few tweaks on your internet browser either Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox you can get images, and entire webpages loading at lightning speeds.

http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/71788/...nd_Firefox.html

Pretty easy to understand, just click cancel if any popups come up, just follow the instructions.

Thanks :)

Edited May 17, 2007 by Dearster

[matty13]

I recently came across a site which shows you exactly how to change a setting on your browser window to allow pages to load up alot quicker.

Not sure if it works on dial up also, only tried it on broadband.

By carrying out these few tweaks on your internet browser either Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox you can get images, and entire webpages loading at lightning speeds.

http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/...d_Firefox.html

Pretty easy to understand, just click cancel if any popups come up, just follow the instructions.

Thanks :)

The link dont even work.

[red.]

i looked at your avatars and though you were talking to yourself...

[solardog]

Oh dude, you're killin' me! You speed tweak tease.

[leesmithg]

You can easily speed up your browsing in both IE and FF, remove any addins you have installed or are installed by default.

[Dearster]

Sorry all, i've updated the link now, it works now :)

[DaViD_BRaNDoN]

Anyone else tested this tweak? Comments?

[Dearster]

I've done what it says in the video and it increases the image loading and website loading speeds quite considerably.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Well for Firefox anyway, pipelining has an internal limit of 8, so you can set it to whatever number you want, but it will never go higher than 8 (unless you modify the source and compile it yourself)

[Dearster]

Well for Firefox anyway, pipelining has an internal limit of 8, so you can set it to whatever number you want, but it will never go higher than 8 (unless you modify the source and compile it yourself)

I set mine to 10 originally, ill change it back to 8 now that i know this,

Thanks :)

[c_kuznik]

I use the Fasterfox extension. Checked my settings and it set those values for me.

[kerunt]

Cool stuff!

[Samn9]

Increasing the pipeline puts a heavier load on servers, hurting the websites you visit.

[Fizzy]

I use the Fasterfox extension. Checked my settings and it set those values for me.

Yeah, same here. Fasterfox really speeds up load times.

[Umbrello]

This is so old.

[LOC Veteran]

This is so old.

Yeah well, look at when this was original posted, and the age of the comments for it. 160 days ago at the earliest heh.

But its still good information that people could use.

[nilsHaus]

Its not really good information, its like hotlinking images, its a dick move if you know what you're doing.

[Dearster]

Its not really good information, its like hotlinking images, its a dick move if you know what you're doing.

I thought it was good information when i found out about it and used it and i wanted to share my findings with others so i uploaded it, if you dont like it, then theres no need to post on this topic is there.

[Abhishek kapoor]

thax for guiding ... nice work

[IceDogg]

It's true these are VERY old. But it's the first I've seen with video to show the less tech savvy people exactly how to do it. I have used some of these tweaks myself in the past, although the number values were much different for some. But recently I reset all of them just to see what would happen, and honestly some sites are even faster. Also if you ever had the problems with sites that just keeps loading and loading..well since resetting these "tweaks" back to defaults I've not had that problem. Now the only time that happens is when the host is under heavy load and there really is a server side delay. I don't use these settings anymore and I think web pages are much faster then with these settings. JMHO..and I was a big believer in these settings at one time.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Increasing the pipeline puts a heavier load on servers, hurting the websites you visit.

Pipelining actually reduces load on the servers (network load anyway)

Instead of creating a new connection for each object, it will create one connection and request 8 objects or so, so less sockets (and packets) are created, using less resources on the client and server (disk usage is the same regardless), and can speed up the browsing on high latency connections.

[+vlsi0n Subscriber¹]

I think it has increased my speeds, thanks for the tip!

[dr.bisho]

Increasing the pipeline puts a heavier load on servers, hurting the websites you visit.

what are you talking about

any how... its cool, but old....

[Samn9]

Pipelining actually reduces load on the servers (network load anyway)

Instead of creating a new connection for each object, it will create one connection and request 8 objects or so, so less sockets (and packets) are created, using less resources on the client and server (disk usage is the same regardless), and can speed up the browsing on high latency connections.

Sorry, I was thinking of something else.

[L3thal Veteran]

I did the trick for IE and it seems to load everything much faster than before. The whole page will load at once instead of loading from top to bottom.