Speeding Up Firefox

[bucknut11]

I've had another very odd issue with Firefox... sometimes, if I'm logged in to BP for a while (that never happens), the browser won't navigate to any other domain - I can get anywhere here, but nowhere off the site until I reboot. Weird, huh? Any thoughts?

I think Clarity's spyware is finally working....

 

[Deety]

I think Clarity's spyware is finally working....

Ha, you are probably right.

Or my computer is addicted (too)...

 

[LloydSev]

Instead of altering these settings yourself.. here's a program that automatically detects what should be changed on your system.

http://www.totalidea.com/freestuff4.htm

 

[TheMile]

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

30 is too many. The Mozillazine folks and Mozilla.org folks recommend 2-4.

See:

MozillaZine Discussion
HTTP/1.1 Pipelining FAQ

 

[CleveBucks]

My biggest beef with Firefox is that it doesn't have a method of auto-updating itself when security flaws are found in it. I would make more of an effort to deploy it across the 500+ PC's at my workplace if I knew my users would be automatically protected and updated without having any intervention on their part.

 

[NJ-Buckeye]

hmmmm... went your way Sev.. load time actually got slower !!!! from 4.3 to 4.9

 

[LloydSev]

well hey... NJ, that could very well be an XP issue...

30 is too many. The Mozillazine folks and Mozilla.org folks recommend 2-4.

He is correct, as I said before.. WinXP is hard-coded to allow only 10 concurrent TCP/IP sessions at one time.. this is how they get you to buy server products.

 

[NJ-Buckeye]

Sev.. what's the difference between Mirror 1,2, 3 or 4?

 

[OSUsushichic]

Well, following those instructions actually made mine faster, so screw you all.

 

[NJ-Buckeye]

boy, we sure can see how those liberal Democrats are...:tongue2:

 

[bearonu]

I thought this latest news update would be pertinent in this thread.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/120756