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Speeding up Firefox

14 points by dangoldin 18y ago

rozim 18y ago
Buried in a comment in the article is a mention of the FF extension Fasterfox which is nice: http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/ http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/
- karanbhangui 18y ago
  There's also swiftfox: http://getswiftfox.com/ http://getswiftfox.com/
loowee 18y ago
There's also a nice Firefox plugin that you can use to make the pipelining changes. It's all here. http://tinyurl.com/dgenbf http://tinyurl.com/dgenbf
amoeba 18y ago
Pipelining and increasing max requests is considered harmful. Please do not enable these. Both Mozilla and WebKit discourage this and for good reason.
- trapper 18y ago
  What is the good reason?
  - patio11 18y ago
    See: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/pipelining-faq.html 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-actually-slow-down-your-browser http://hubpages.com/hub/Firefox-pipelining-speed-tweak-may-a... URL says it all.
    - trapper 18y ago
      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 18y ago
        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 18y ago
        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 18y ago
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 18y ago
  I tried it and didn't notice any difference. Just saying.
  - mikeyur 18y ago
    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/latest-tracemonkey/ http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates...

14 points by dangoldin 18y ago

rozim 18y ago

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

karanbhangui 18y ago
There's also swiftfox: http://getswiftfox.com/ http://getswiftfox.com/

loowee 18y ago

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

amoeba 18y ago

Pipelining and increasing max requests is considered harmful. Please do not enable these. Both Mozilla and WebKit discourage this and for good reason.

trapper 18y ago
What is the good reason?
- patio11 18y ago
  See: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/pipelining-faq.html 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-actually-slow-down-your-browser http://hubpages.com/hub/Firefox-pipelining-speed-tweak-may-a... URL says it all.
  - trapper 18y ago
    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 18y ago
      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 18y ago
      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 18y ago

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 18y ago
I tried it and didn't notice any difference. Just saying.
- mikeyur 18y ago
  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/latest-tracemonkey/ http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates...