Grail Knight
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1 edit | [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed I have been testing some speed tweaks for Firefox v2.0 and 3.0 series browser and have come up with IMO a nice combination for computers with broadband connections regardless of the computers processor speed. Users of Fasterfox will recognize some of the tweaks but some are not included in Fasterfox. This is the original way of tweaking Firefox and IMO still the best way.
You can place these lines of code below in your user.js. Restart Fx when done.
Note* If after restarting Firefox the tweaks do not transfer over to the prefs.js file you can do an about:config from the address bar and manually enter them into the prefs.js.
Your Firefox should now be noticeably peppier.
Enjoy and feel free to post some of your own tweaks.
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user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 360000);
user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 8191);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 120000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 32);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 20);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 50);
user_pref("network.http.keep-alive.timeout", 30);
user_pref("network.http.request.max-start-delay", 4);
user_pref("network.http.connect.timeout", 30);
user_pref("network.dnsCacheExpiration", 60);
user_pref("network.dnsCacheEntries", 20);
user_pref("network.ftp.idleConnectionTimeout", 60);
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Sir Raleigh
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1 edit | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed Thanks GK. A great set of tweaks.
I installed them all except the two relating to "network.dnsCache.....", which I have set to "0" because I'm using AnalogX's FastCache to store my DNS requests, and I can tell a world of difference.
BTW, the way you have them grouped would suggest the items in each group are related to each other in some way. Are there any notes that can be attached to each group to indicate what each group does?
EDIT: Added "BTW..."
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Grail Knight
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| Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed Your all welcome.
The explanations for what each item does is located here:
»kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Twea···ferences
I just have been changing parameters and testing until I found the optimal settings that work well on various types of broadband connections.
Usually the tweaks are listed for:
fast computer/slower connection
fast computer/fast connection
and so on and so forth.
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That was time consuming when applying the tweaks for friends and family members with different types of computers and connections so I attempted to find a happy medium which is what I posted.
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Valdosta, GA | Thanks Sir Raleigh for the AnalogX's FastCache tip. I am now using it and it works great. Also, thanks to Grail Knight for the tweaks. | |
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Sir Raleigh
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1 edit | I also want to say thank you, GK. Not just for this post of great tweaks (which I just installed and already see the difference), but for all the help I get on this forum from you and all the other regulars on here. You guys (and/or gals) are amazing.
BTW, (and you probably already know this) an amazing little editor which I use for editing preference files like user.js is something called Win32Pad. It has a lot of features I find useful and missing in Notepad.
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31 | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed You are welcome.  | |
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| Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed said by fphall :Smuuth: It would have been nice if you had asked permission to use my dogs picture for your avatar. :-( WTH are you talking about? 
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Bristol, CT | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed Oops, my error. I apologize... something in FF must be hosed as my avatar is getting substituted for yours. Only when viewed in FF and not with IE. Sorry. | |
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| Thanks, for this and all of your (and Sir Raleigh's) help and support of this forum.
One question, should we uninstall FasterFox before making these tweaks? It sounds like it won't be needed.
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Sir Raleigh
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2 edits | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed Yes, I would uninstall FasterFox.
Each time Firefox loads it reads, if it's there, the three files; user.js, userChrome,css, and userContent.css and adds the contents to whatever area within Firefox it's designed for. If you have FasterFox installed it could then overwrite the changes you made in user.js/about:config negating your changes.
For changes to about:config, I've always used user.js and then save a copy elsewhere. That way you will always have a record of what changes you've made to about:config without having to remember these changes. Also, if the "perfs.js" file (which is the about:config entries) ever gets corrupted and you reinstall Firefox or have to create a new Profile again you can just place a copy of your user.js file back in your Profiles root directory and when you start Firefox everything's back the way it was.
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| Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed said by Sir Raleigh :Yes, I would uninstall FasterFox. I finally decided to remove it as well. Plus one of the settings is incorrect in the extension. Probably best to set it yourself just like above.
Oh thanks Grail Knight feel better.
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31 | You do not need Fasterfox using the tweaks I posted. | |
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Cudni
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Someshire | Thanks for the tweaks. I used them in my user.js
You will hear from me if they don't make my FF fly 
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Grail Knight
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| Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed Your welcome.
Please let me know how they work out.
I can make adjustments if needed.
You will have to bear with me though I have a touch of the flu and will be here off and on depending on how I feel.
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Mississauga, ON | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed GK, thanks for this & all of your Mozilla product tweaking help, you are a valuable resource to this forum! | |
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31 | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed Thank you and you are welcome.
Just having some fun with my favorite browser and thought I would share. | |
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31 | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed Thank you.
I will be up to speed myself in a couple of days hopefully. | |
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Mississauga, ON | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed did you add any new settings when you edited your original post?
I'm very impressed with these btw, especially on my laptop.
Hope you're feeling better! | |
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Grail Knight
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| Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed I did not change any settings when I edited my post.
Just wanted to let people know what to do if their settings did not take through use of the user.js.
quote:
Hope you're feeling better!
Thanks
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1 edit | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed great!
Just checking, so I won't have to make any additional changes. | |
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31 | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed If I change anything I will make a separate note but I am going to leave things as they are. Seems to be working well for everyone so far. | |
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jmorlan
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Pacifica, CA | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed No problems here, but I honestly don't see significant improvement either.
Some sites seem slightly faster but at least one site seems slightly slower.
Are there some tests we can run before & after?
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CCat
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31 | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed Your welcome CCat. | |
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timcuth
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clubs: | Another big Thank You! I just installed these tweaks and my Firefox seems faster.
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31 | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed Good deal.
You are welcome. | |
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31 | Your welcome. | |
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31 | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed Stylish is for tweaking how a site looks.
Thses tweaks do not have anything to do with visual effects or .css. | |
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Woodbridge, VA | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed Actually you can tweak how firefox behaves too.(hidden menus, icon location, icon design, etc.) | |
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Grail Knight
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1 edit | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed That is true and we had a small thread on that last here Winter but it pales in comparison to the 53 page thread on those types of tweaks at MozillaZine.
Edit* Here is the link for that thread if you are interested. | |
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Grail Knight
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1 edit | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed I see it is for your router.
Are you by any chance blocking js?
Other then those 3 items you switched back to default nothing else in the tweak list should mess with images. You would see problems on other sites if they did. | |
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timcuth
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| Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed said by Grail Knight :Post the link please. It is my DSL modem's configuration and info screens on my private LAN. I guess it is not really all that important to get it working. It just looks nicer if the buttons are displayed.
I'll go to MSIE 7 and see if theyt display correctly in it.
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Grail Knight
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1 edit | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed I would imagine you have been surfing since you tweaked Fx. Have you had other sites fail to render correctly.
Do you use Fx all of the time to access your router?
I have a question for you now.
How do you like using open dns?
I was thinking of taking it for a spin. | |
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31 | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed Might just be something new that cropped up with Fx and the router if other sites are working okay. | |
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timcuth
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clubs: | Okay, I may as well go back to the full set of tweaks, then, I suppose.
Thanks for all your help.
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31 | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed Your welcome of course.
Have fun with Fx that is what it is there for. | |
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Babar
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31 | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed Your welcome Babar. | |
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Weirdal
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Grail Knight
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1 edit | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed I believe anything over 225 connections would be loosely construed as a ddos. I only read that on one site.
Anything over 225 would be denied by the server and possibly slow the connection down.
The tweaks are not even close and taken from Mozilla Guide to tweaking Fx and within the parameters of what Firefox is capable of.
Did you look at the link I posted to the Firefox Tweak Site?
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More on ddos here.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-···e_attack | |
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| Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed said by Grail Knight :I believe anything over 225 connections would be loosely construed as a ddos. I only read that on one site. Anything over 225 would be denied by the server and possibly slow the connection down. The tweaks are not even close and taken from Mozilla Guide to tweaking Fx and within the parameters of what Firefox is capable of. Did you look at the link I posted to the Firefox Tweak Site? Edit* More on ddos here. » en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-···e_attack Oh, I didn't know anything under 225 connections is considered ok. I just figured that more connections = more server load = slower site for the rest of us.
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31 | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed I would imagine if thousands of us visited the same site simultaneously we would create a ruckus. | |
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join:2002-06-28 | Thanks for the tweak, I have adjusted it a bit to suit my pc a bit better, it seems a bit more responsive to me with the following changes.
user_pref("network.http.request.max-start-delay", 0;
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0); | |
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31 | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed Your welcome.
Tweaks are made to be further tweaked. | |
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Psicop
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join:2005-12-21 | user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
I read in several places this tweak:
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 30
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Grail Knight
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| Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed Setting it higher then 8 based will do nothing.
»kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.···requests
This is from the original Fx Tuning Site:
»forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=53650
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
* Description: maximum number of consecutive requests in one pipeline.
* Type: integer
* Limit: 8
* Default: 4
* Additional Info: nsHTTP.h. Optimal value depends on connection bandwidth/latency.
* Recommendation: 8. While it doesn't hurt to set it to 100 like in other tweak examples, it will have no effect whatsoever because of the mentioned limit.
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1 edit | Woha! Defiantly faster thanks a bunch! | |
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31 | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed Good deal.
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GhostReaper
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| Pretty cool tweak in that codes perameters man kudos to you...
I was workin on a very similiar tweak and had a few characters off on the code and gettin errors still I saw this post and went well duh.. Anyways goodjob and thanks again.. I am fairly new to this site and have a very extensive knowledge myself in almost all fields of computer technology... I sit here and read about problems ppl have and add in a few cents worth of my wisdom.. If thats what its called nowadays....
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31 | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed Your welcome.
Tweaking Fx is for everyone. | |
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31 | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed That is good to hear. | |
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Grail Knight
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2 edits | Re: [FireFox] Tweaking Firefox for Fun & Speed Thanks.
I have the pipelining and max requests already in the tweak.
I left network.dns.disableIPv6 out originally because I considered it more of a per user item. I have had it disabled myself all along but sure I can add it to the Master List
Edit* It has been too many days so I can not edit the OP. I will leave it here.
user_pref("network.dns.disableIPv6", true); | |
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Grail Knight
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4 edits | Updated Tweaks. Minor typo error fixed to allow tweaks to change or create the needed values in the prefs.js.
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user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 360000);
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", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 32);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 20);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 100);
user_pref("network.http.keep-alive.timeout", 30);
user_pref("network.http.request.max-start-delay", 4);
user_pref("network.http.connect.timeout", 30);
user_pref("network.dnsCacheExpiration", 60);
user_pref("network.dnsCacheEntries", 20);
user_pref("network.ftp.idleConnectionTimeout", 60);
user_pref("network.enableIDN", true);
user_pref("network.dns.disableIPv6", true);
user_pref("network.prefetch-next", false);
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Edit* As before you can play with the settings as long as you stay within the parameters as defined by Mozilla.
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