Speeding up Firefox

[dangoldin]

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/speed-up-firefox-web-browser.html

[amoeba]

Pipelining and increasing max requests is considered harmful. Please do not enable these.

Both Mozilla and WebKit discourage this and for good reason.

[trapper → amoeba]

What is the good reason?

[patio11 → trapper]

See:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/pipelining-faq.h...

This obviously has the potential to introduce a new category of evangelism bugs, since no other popular web browsers implement pipelining.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Firefox-pipelining-speed-tweak-may-a...

URL says it all.

[trapper → patio11]

The second article notes that for most modern webservers for those not using a modem (really, they still have those?) it should be faster.

And this: "Firefox will only send a maximum of 8 HTTP requests at a time in any case" - really? Anyone know if there is a good reason?

[eli → trapper]

Because most people don't want each client making >8 connections to their web server at once. Nor would making more connections necessarily be faster.

[bmj → trapper]

The second article notes that for most modern webservers for those not using a modem (really, they still have those?) it should be faster.

Oh, yes indeed-y. I'm writing modem control code for a compact framework app right now.

[moe]

The one biggest firefox speedup that linux users can get is by installing a Minefield nightly (Firefox 3). It's a night and day difference.

[windsurfer → moe]

I tried it and didn't notice any difference. Just saying.

[mikeyur → windsurfer]

Download the latest 3.2a with TraceMonkey (Mozilla's answer to Chrome's V8 javascript engine) - it makes a world of difference.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates...

[rozim]

Buried in a comment in the article is a mention of the FF extension Fasterfox which is nice: http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/

[karanbhangui → rozim]

There's also swiftfox: http://getswiftfox.com/

[loowee]

There's also a nice Firefox plugin that you can use to make the pipelining changes. It's all here. http://tinyurl.com/dgenbf