Make Firefox load faster!
Posted: June 28th, 2004 | Author: arnoldgamboa | Filed under: Techie | View CommentsIf you are a Firefox enthusiast, you’re on the right track, man! You just joined the “dump-the-IE-now!” movement. :D
Here’re some tips I got from a mailing list. I have it applied to my firefox config and it sure does make my browsing more enjoyable.
You can make firefox as fast as opera with a little tuning. heres how:
1) look for the profile folder
On Windows XP/2000, the path is usually
>C:Documents and Settings[User Name]Application
>DataMozillaFirefoxProfilesdefault.xxxwhere xxx is a random string of 3 characters.
On Windows 95/98/Me, the path is usually
>C:WINDOWSApplication
>DataMozillaFirefoxProfilesdefault.xxxOn Linux, the path is usually
~/.mozilla/firefox/default.xxx/.On MacOS X, the path is usually ~/Library/Application
Support/Firefox/Profiles/default.xxx/.2) create user.js file and paste this code :
user_pref(“browser.cache.memory.capacity”, 65536);
user_pref(“browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl”, true);
user_pref(“browser.xul.error_pages.enabled”, true);
user_pref(“content.interrupt.parsing”, true);
user_pref(“content.max.tokenizing.time”, 3000000);
user_pref(“content.maxtextrun”, 8191);
user_pref(“content.notify.backoffcount”, 5);
user_pref(“content.notify.interval”, 750000);
user_pref(“content.notify.ontimer”, true);
user_pref(“content.switch.threshold”, 750000);
user_pref(“network.http.max-connections”, 32);
user_pref(“network.http.max-connections-per-server”,
8);
user_pref(“network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy”,
8);
user_pref(“network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server”,
4);
user_pref(“network.http.pipelining”, true);
user_pref(“network.http.pipelining.maxrequests”, 8 );
user_pref(“network.http.proxy.pipelining”, true);
user_pref(“nglayout.initialpaint.delay”, 750);
user_pref(“plugin.expose_full_path”, true);
user_pref(“signed.applets.codebase_principal_support”,
true);3) reload firefox
4) profit!