How to Speed up Firefox page loading

ddp · Nov 8, 2006

Leema01, reduce your sig to conform to forum rules ASAP.
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nct35 · Nov 28, 2006

DVDBack23 said:

Found this, someone wanna try it out, made by OReilly,

"Speed up page display
To display pages faster, you first need a fast CPU and memory. Don't try the following things on an ancient Pentium II, unless specifically noted here.

Setting the following preference to false is a brutal performance tweak that tells Firefox to process every byte of Web content as soon as it arrives, rather that buffering it in sensible chunks. This makes Firefox web-page handling work extremely hard but theoretically puts page content on the screen faster (recommended only for burning-hot CPUs with super-fast display cards and dial-up connections):

content.notify.ontimer /* default = true */

An even more brutal tweak shuts out all interruptions (including user input) while the incoming web page content is analyzed (not recommended at all unless Firefox is being used as an untended monitoring station):

content.interrupt.parsing /* default = true */

If content.notify.ontimer sensibly remains false, this is the time-out interval for collecting sensible chunks of incoming web page. Lower it for faster incremental page display. Lower it below 10000, and web-page handling will be working extremely hard again (recommended for dial-up):

content.notify.interval /* default = 120000 (micro-seconds) */

For Granny's slow computer, if nothing's arrived recently, then do extra buffering, which saves more CPU cycles. Set to the number of milliseconds to back off each time the network connection is found to be idle (recommended for ancient PCs on dial-up only):

content.notify.backoffcount /* default = -1, meaning never */

Make Firefox pay more attention to the mouse and keyboard at the expense of other activities. Making this a larger polling delay slows down recognition of user input but marginally improves page display:

content.max.tokenizing.time /* default = 360000 (micro-seconds) */

If the user is in the habit of opening 10 web pages (especially 10 tabs) and then sipping coffee while the pages load, making the following parameter's value larger will speed up page display (recommended for slow CPUs):

content.switch.threshold /* default = 750000 (micro-seconds) */

Make a big memory buffer for big pages. Set to a power of 2 minus 1e.g., 16385 (recommended for broadband):

content.maxtextrun /* default = 8191 */

Here are a couple of additional oddments. The following preference tells Firefox to start putting received web pages on the screen right away, even if not much content has been received yet:

nglayout.initialpaint.delay /* set to 0, default = 250 (millisecs) */

The following preference tells Firefox not to bother putting image placeholders on the screen while the real images are fetched, which will also speed page display up a bit (recommended for broadband):

browser.display.show_image_placeholders /* default = true , set to false */

Finally, on Linux/Unix, don't run Firefox with X-servers and X-clients on different machines; that can be quite slow. VNC (or PC-Anywhere, or Windows Remote Desktop) does not affect Firefox performance, except for capping the speed at which desktop updates occur. That is not a Firefox-specific effect, though.

1.11.3. Expand Your Caching
Your best defense against a slow network is a big local cache. In the Options panel, make the cache as big as you can manage. It's really the memory part of the cache that provides the performance, so if your computer is low on memory, a big disk cache won't help much. Buy more memory; Firefox will find it and use it. If you want to set the size of the memory cache explicitly, use these preferences:

browser.cache.memory.enable /* default is true */
browser.cache.memory.capacity /* -1 = size to fit, 123 = 123 Kb */ "
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nct35 · Nov 28, 2006

Hi there. please be patient with me - I'm a novice. Thanks!!
Sorry about previous post. Hit the wrong button.

I have recently switched from IE to Mozilla Firefox.

Have been searching all over for ways to improve my connection speed. I run windows XP but on a dial up. Often the Activity connection page stalls so there is no bytes being sent or received. The icon for connection (2 tiny computers!!) more often than not, remains black which tells me that there is not alot going on.

(Note: I am totally useless with this type of thing!!)
I read your post but could not figure out how to set preferences such as: content.notify.ontimer /* default = true */

Also, in the post from Alien13 he said to: Locate the line browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs . I have been able to do the rest using about:config, but cannot locate this one in the file. Within the Windows Task Manager under the Networking Tab, the Network Utilization % goes from 0 to 95% and back down and up etc. My current Kbps is at 46.

Heres hoping that you can help me.
Many thanks

NCT35

yodaddi · Nov 28, 2006

why is it that in my Firefox 2.0 it takes a long time for a pop up screen to appear? how can i configure it so that the pop up appears quickly? i have sbc dsl. thx.

EUROCHIK · Dec 4, 2006

AWESOME thnx for the tip (before it would take me forever to load the page)

econmajor · Dec 18, 2006

haha this is crazy!!!

fnmuscgrl · Feb 22, 2007

thanks a lot this is great

fnmuscgrl · Feb 22, 2007

but is it going to have me build up more cookies or something like that. or cache more stuff.... i dont really know what that all means but
i think it applies

techman2 · Feb 23, 2007

That is great but when you say it make 30 requests at once does that mean when you buy something online that it will buy it 30 times

techman2 · Feb 26, 2007

Thats Great

Thanks

segments · Mar 6, 2007

sweeet thanks for the tips

todaydvd · May 11, 2007

Thanks! It's cool!

The website loading faster now!

Joshua30 · Apr 8, 2007

Instead of putting 30 type in 50! MAN AMS THAT THINK THEY KNOW IT ALL!

Schwaber · Apr 8, 2007

We kinda know that Joshua30. I put mine to 100

PostaGirl · Apr 10, 2007

thanks, this really works

Joshua30 · Apr 10, 2007

100 makes it go slower for some stupid reason so 50 is the best spot!

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Joshua30 · Apr 10, 2007

100 makes it go slower for some stupid reason so 50 is the best spot!

If you want 3 more tips on hOW to speed up firefox on a video PM ME!

Joshua30 · Apr 10, 2007

100 makes it go slower for some stupid reason so 50 is the best spot!

If you want 3 more tips on hOW to speed up firefox on a video PM ME!

ireland · Apr 10, 2007

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