TIP #1
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. Lastly 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.
If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!
TIP #2
Turn on inline autocomplete in Firefox:
1. Enter about:config in the URL field
2. Right-click on the page and create a new Boolean value
3. Enter browser.urlbar.autoFill as the preference name (note, case-sensitive: ‘F’, not ‘f’)
4. Set the value to true
8 Responses to “Speed FireFox, Enable Autofill”
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January 5th, 2005 at 12:46 am
Awesome tip. Thank you.
January 5th, 2005 at 12:17 pm
It has been well documented that while enabling this will decrease the time pages start to load, it lengthens the total time for the page to render. It also uses more CPU cycles and RAM when enabled. These reasons are why pipelining is not enabled by default. It also causes problems with some Flash content.
January 5th, 2005 at 1:10 pm
I did this and pages wouldn’t even render. Had to reinstall Firefox after deleting all files of it.
January 5th, 2005 at 6:50 pm
Whats the benefit of tip #2 ?
January 5th, 2005 at 10:57 pm
The first at least works also with the Mozilla browser, which I use without the accompanying suite.
January 7th, 2005 at 9:47 am
hye can u give a link anon where u say its well documented that it takes more ram
January 10th, 2005 at 4:03 pm
uh oh:
I typed browser.urlbar.autoFil without the 2nd “l”
how do i delete it!?!?
May 11th, 2006 at 1:14 am
After performing these operations and exiting Firefox, upon re-opening Firefox, the autofil feature still didn’t work. I entered Tools->Autofill->Autofill Tools and entered a profile and it doesn’t save….
Frustrating