even FASTER page loads with Firefox? Its possible (1 Viewer)

[NickSo]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messagev...&enterthread=y

check it out.. patched my FF, i see a difference

 

[Rob Gillespie]

Yeah definitely a bit snappier. Nice one.

What would be good though, is if they could make the application as a whole load faster. The single biggest obstacle I run into when trying to convince people to use Firefox is that it just takes a bit too long to load up. Granted these people are invariably using slightly older machines but seeing load times of 15-30 seconds is not unusual. They could do with having some of the libraries and whatnot load when the OS boots so it's always 'there', like IE.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Holy Crappola!

Noticeably faster!

Thanks for this.

 

[Geoff::L]

Thanks! It actually works.

 

[Greg*go]

What does it do? It asked for my Firefox folder, instead of my profile folder, so I presume it hasn't touched my profile at all? Seems a bit odd, and I don't notice a speed up at all.

But then, when I clicked on the patch button, it couldn't find the right folder, and when I clicked on the right folder it asked me if I was sure that was the correct folder. That just made it seem odder?

edit: hmm, it has appeared to change my font styles?

 

[Tekara]

Well the patch itself allows firefox to open up multpiple connections to download a page with. Very much like a download accelerator.

I just ran the patching program hit the button and that was it.

Works like a champ, big big difference.

 

[Scott L]

Thanks for the info. I did it through the Tweak Network extension also mentioned in that thread.

 

[Mike~Sileck]

Wow def. noticed a difference. Thanks!

 

[Mark Dubbelboer]

thanks

I never really had any complaints about load times, but I'll take your guys word that it's a bit faster now

 

[Seth--L]

You can speed up the loading of Firefox on Windows XP by adding it to the programs that XP "prefetches."

To do this, right-click the Start Menu item for Firefox, or any icon you use to start Firefox, and open the Properties dialog box. Add a space plus /Prefetch:1 to the command line and click OK. The resulting line might look as follows:

"Crogram FilesMozilla Firefoxfirefox.exe" /Prefetch:1

 

[Chuck Stephens]

WOW, thanks for the heads up on this. I'm definitely seeing a difference

 

[Chris_Morris]

It can also be done this way:


You guys never saw this before?

It was one of the first modifications I made to Firebird (as it was called then)

Chris

 

[Tekara]

hmm, none of the options you laid out were set to the values that you suggested, I'm not so sure that this patch and your configuration work the same way.

 

[Chris_Morris]

What settings does it set the pipelining options too?
( I have not seen the patch as it wouldn't let me download it )

Chris
( my settings are not set like above, those are just suggestions, mine are:user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 128);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.firstrequest", false);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 128);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 8192);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
/* Turn on timer-based reflow management */
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
/* Sets the allowed time between reflows in microseconds */
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 10);
/* Set the number of reflows to do before waiting for the rest of the page to arrive */
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 200);

I'm just assuming that it is creating a User.js file in the Firefox profile directory and setting some of these, which are usually tied into faster page loading, once I get the patch downloaded, I'll check it out)

 

[Chris_Morris]

Ok, got the patch and tried it (renamed my user.js file first). Started up Firebird (0.7) and noticed no change. It had not created a user.js file in the 0.7 profile directory. However, it had created a user.js file in the Firefox profile and it contained 3 lines: pipelining to true, maxrequests to 100 and proxy pipelining to true. Firefox uses setting in the user.js file over any others, but Firebird 0.7 has the user.js in a different place which is why it didn't accept the changes.

Short answer is that it is turning on pipelining, and that will make a huge difference in page load speeds.

Chris

 

[Kevin T]

all i get is a 404 error.

kevin t

 

[ScottHH]

Kevin, you don't have to download anything. Chris has told you how to do it by hand (and not have to run an executable that you downloaded off the internet, which is always better):

1. Type "about:config" in the address field. (where you currently see "http://www.hometheaterforum.com..." Note there are no spaces in "about:config".

A whole bunch of settings will come up. Change these three:

2. Set the value of network.http.pipelining to "true".
3. Set the value of network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to "100".
4. Set the value of network.http.proxy.pipelining to "true"

That's it.

 

[Chris_Morris]

Same problem I had. I eventually found the patch at www.luketrewin.com the website of the guy who created it.

Chris