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Ordell
Deactivated User

1042 Posts
6/05
Posted - Apr 14 2007 : 6:50PM
http://mongoose123.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/firefox-hacking/

I've done this mod and FF screams now. It's great.

DrP0rn0
Senior Member

1836 Posts
5/04
Posted - Apr 14 2007 : 8:18PM
Too early to be certain, but I think this just made firefox MUCH faster on my system. Thanks! :)

Dr. P

Jacco All-Star Supporter
All-Star Member

"liable to deprave and corrupt"
2673 Posts
5/04
Posted - Apr 14 2007 : 8:43PM
This will make Firefox faster, but it is not very webserver friendly, you will be using more than average resources this way.

Jacco

Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - Apr 15 2007 : 12:02AM
It's stuff like this that makes me wish IIS had a mechanism to set the max connections per user like Apache does.

8 persistent connections isn't too horrible on the web server but there's no need for that many. 2 or 4 should be more than enough. 64 max connections is just silly unless you are superhuman and somehow able to browse/load 8 or more different pages in different tabs simultaneously.

I'd prefer that users don't hit our site this hard but there's little I can do about it.

Bill All-Star Supporter
All-Star Member

5334 Posts
6/00
Posted - Apr 15 2007 : 12:10PM
Drew,
Other than the 2 to 4 persistent connections, can you recommend values for the other settings that will allow for a balance between improved Firefox performance and server resources?
 
jayo All-Star Supporter
All-Star Member

2117 Posts
7/04
Posted - Apr 15 2007 : 7:19PM
Seconded, since this is something I know jack about. I use Firefox to connect to my job, so speeding it up would be useful, but I don't want to bog other people down in the process (well, maybe the corporate guys).

nietzsche
Deactivated User

5470 Posts
8/03
Posted - Apr 15 2007 : 8:15PM
I made the recommended changes and it's had the opposite effect. I'm going back to the way it was.
Bornyo
Deactivated Member

803 Posts
12/04
Posted - Apr 15 2007 : 10:56PM
I made the dialup changes and I'm not seeing any difference. What do those settings change, anyway? I recall some of these tweaks would cause your browser to load ahead, or preload things linked in the current page, but I don't see how pre-loading one hundred pages is going to speed up the one page I want to see.
Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - Apr 16 2007 : 9:49AM
I didn't read the dialup changes. I don't think there's anything you can do to speed up a dialup connection.

This may be helpful

otik
Member

Mushroom Kingdom
223 Posts
1/05
Posted - Apr 17 2007 : 12:34AM
I just tried it and its only gotten worse. How do I get it back to its default specs? I've forgotten all the numbered values
Bill All-Star Supporter
All-Star Member

5334 Posts
6/00
Posted - Apr 17 2007 : 9:47PM
Right click on the line that you want to change. Five options will appear. The bottom option is "reset".
otik
Member

Mushroom Kingdom
223 Posts
1/05
Posted - Apr 20 2007 : 5:10AM
thanks Bill, I actually figured it out but thanks for the heads up all the same.

I was worried there for a sec :)

Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - Apr 20 2007 : 12:34PM
Otik, your avatar is extremely offensive.
croy
Platinum Member

Discovry
4574 Posts
3/04
Posted - Apr 20 2007 : 10:59PM
If you didn't like "Oldboy" Cho, then you might not like Sbando Boy's avatar.



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