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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Make Firefox more faster!!

It's been two long months since I posted anything on my blog. There were a few things which kept me pre-occupied :P

Well, today I will throw some light on making Mozilla Firefox work faster!!

First of all, it's just a mere experiment I performed on my Compaq CQ 60 machine, and it worked The main motivation was to keep my web browser in sync with the Internet connection I have. Everytime I make a request the "request-time" keeps ticking, once when "request-time" is elapsed, there's another try to fetch the request, imagine working on a slow Internet connection, it would never fetch your request, or,  worse, "Page cannot be displayed" pops up!! Bugs me everytime!!

What happens with these "light weight browsers" is that they make a request packet lighter, in other words, they truncate all unwanted headers from a packet, hence making the packet light, so lighter the packet, easy it is to suit the bandwidth of the client and the server!! Our attempt is to tweak the application so that it fetches the information efficiently!!

PS:Note that every command or instruction that I provide here goes "without quotes"!!

1)Now open Firefox, in the address bar type in "about:config", there will be a notification button "I'll be careful, I promise", click on it.

2)In search bar type in "network.http.pipelining", you will see a list of results, double click on network.http.pipelining to set it's value to true.

3)Next, right click on an empty in your web browser, select "New"> select "Boolean", you will now see a dialog box,go ahead and type "network.http.pipelining.firstrequest" and set that to true as well.

4)Locate "network.http.maxrequests" by typing it in the search bar, double click and set it's value to 8.

5)Now, right click on an empty space, select "New" > select "Integer" and type "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set it to 0 (zero), create another integer, name it "content.notify.interval"; set it to 0 (zero).

6)That's it, restart your browser, and feel the difference!!

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