Heres a Tweak to speed up Firefox...

[MOHSHSIHd]

i know...tech talk...but this is really useful....seems to work best on direct connection cable modems, not wireless...

forevergeek.com has a useful guide on speeding up firefox for broadband users. basically after getting to the hidden config settings you set the browser to request more data that it usually does.

1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer.

Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0”.

This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

4. Right-click anywhere and select New-> Boolean.

Name it "browser.turbo.enabled" and set its value to "True"

i found this over on tappersection, and it does REALLY work.
http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=32806.0

[Omen]

Thanks...That worked great!

[MOHSHSIHd]

Thanks...That worked great!

no prob...i was amazed at how much faster it made my pages load

[Omen]

I know...its like having a T1 at home.

[L7]

Holy crap that makes video load way faster too. Thanks as well.

[skier666]

SICKEST TR THIS OCTOBER!!! Thanks

[IE]

Holy shit!!! It works... Bookmarked and printed. Thanks, dude.

[Arty50]

Or just use this extension. I haven't played with it in a while but as I recall, it does the same thing.

http://www.bitstorm.org/extensions/tweak/

[bad_roo]

Worked for me. Seems to halve the page loading times.

Result.

[Lok]

Sweet! Thanks!

[Bzzzt]

Wow, that's fast! Nice to be able to read pages before all the Flash-stuff has loaded too. Thanks!

[AstroPax]

Or just use this extension. I haven't played with it in a while but as I recall, it does the same thing.

http://www.bitstorm.org/extensions/tweak/

This externsion works great, thanks!!

-Astro

[iceman]

Is there are reason to change from Mozilla to Firefox?

[edg]

Is there are reason to change from Mozilla to Firefox?

Ice Fucking Up A Post Preservation Service.

Extentions are handy dandy, but it's mostly personal preference.

edg

[iceman]

Dang, I used up my annual mistake allotment.

[snow_slider]

Dang, I used up my annual mistake allotment.

I'll lend you some of mine. I don't make mustakes.

[CS]

i know...tech talk...but this is really useful....seems to work best on direct connection cable modems, not wireless...

whoa, worked like magic on wireless as well. This thing's smokin now. Thanks mang.

[truth]

Good stuff phishy. Thanks.

[dbp]

These are great, but just a word of warning. I have heard in the past that these tweeks have some minor drawbacks. For one, they work better if you have broadband. They may actually slow down your browsing if you have dialup. Secondly, some servers don't support pipelining and pages may not render correctly. That said, Mozilla has these tweeks on their site and I have used them. They just won't ever be defaults.

[Arty50]

Is there are reason to change from Mozilla to Firefox?

Yes, there's an excellent reason. Mozilla is a giant program. It's a "web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application." Firefox is just a browser. It has a much smaller physical footprint (HD space) and memory footprint (RAM). There's a reason why Mozilla is hidden in the corner of the mozilla.org website. About a year ago or so, the Mozilla foundation decided to split up Mozilla. So they're phasing out the big app and everyone is mainly working on the separate parts: Firefox (web browser) and Thunderbird (email client). Why'd they do this? Because the vast majority of people just used the web browser portion of the app. Nobody needed all the rest of the junk, and it was just slowing things down and taking up space. I hear that Thunderbird is really good too.

[Woodsy]

Tsome servers don't support pipelining and pages may not render correctly. .

some servers ( or pages I dont know) dont support Firefox and dont load right, ie some of our credit card interface has to be sset with ie as defalyt because you just cant read it when opened in firefox

[L7]

Is there are reason to change from Mozilla to Firefox?

I forget what brought me to it but there were a couple of features I liked. The other was to go to thunderbird and get spell check in it. I've been pleased with both and can't think of a reason not to switch.

[Tippster]

These are great, but just a word of warning. I have heard in the past that these tweeks have some minor drawbacks. For one, they work better if you have broadband. They may actually slow down your browsing if you have dialup. Secondly, some servers don't support pipelining and pages may not render correctly. That said, Mozilla has these tweeks on their site and I have used them. They just won't ever be defaults.

What is this "dialup" of which you speak?

[dbp]

some servers ( or pages I dont know) dont support Firefox and dont load right, ie some of our credit card interface has to be sset with ie as defalyt because you just cant read it when opened in firefox

That is because some developers don't write their pages to W3C specs or insist on using proprietary technologies like ActiveX.

[ill-advised strategy]

some servers ( or pages I dont know) dont support Firefox and dont load right, ie some of our credit card interface has to be sset with ie as defalyt because you just cant read it when opened in firefox

yes, same as with some of our gov fire stuff.