How to Double Firefox Browsing Speed on Dialup Connection

Thanks for reading “How to Double the Firefox browsing speed on dialup connections”. As we all know, firefox is taking over the browser’s market with it’s improved features and enhanced security. It is so far the fastest browser out of the box among its major competitors like I.E. and Opera. Still there is lot’s of room for improvement in firefox. Fortunately due to open nature of the browser it is not difficult to tweak your browser to get the optimal browsing speed.

I have compiled here a list of tips and tricks and tweaks that I have done to my browser to get most of my slow slow connection. It should work for you as well. I have done some site loading time tests before and after these tweaks.I have seen a 80% increase in performance. I am eager to hear from you about your experience with this.

1. Type about:config in the address bar and hit Enter.
2. In the filter search bar type network.http.pipelining. Be sure the value field is set to true, if not double-click to set to true. (HTTP is the application-layer protocol that most web pages are transferred with. In HTTP 1.1, multiple requests can be sent before any responses are received. This is known as pipelining. Pipelining reduces page loading times, but not all servers support it.)

   

3. Go back to the filter search bar and type network.http.pipelining.max requests. Double-click this option and set its value to 8.
4. In the filter search bar and type network.http.proxy.pipelining. Once opened double click on it and set it to true.
5. In the filter search bar Type network.dns.disableIPv6 and set this option to true by double clicking on it. (In IPv6-capable DNS servers, an IPv4 address may be returned when an IPv6 address is requested. It is possible for Mozilla to recover from this misinformation, but a significant delay is introduced.)\
6. Content Interrupt Parsing:This preference controls if the application will interrupt parsing a page to respond to UI events. It does not exist by default. Right-click  anywhere in the about:config window, select New and then Boolean from the pop-up menu. Then:
   1. Enter content.interrupt.parsing in the New boolean value pop-up window and click OK.
   2. When prompted to choose the value for the new boolean, select true and click OK.
7. Rather than waiting  until a page has completely downloaded to display it to the user, Mozilla applications will regularly render what has been received to that point. This option controls the maximum amount of time the application will be unresponsive while rendering pages.
   1. Right-click anywhere in the about:config window, select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.
   2. Enter content.max.tokenizing.time in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK
   3. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 2250000 and click OK.
8. Content Notify Interval:This option sets the minimum amount of time to wait between re-flows. Right-click anywhere in the about:config window, select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.
   1. Type content.notify.interval in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.
   2. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 750000 and click OK.
9. Content Notify Timer: This option sets if to re-flow pages at an interval any higher than that specified by content.notify.interval.
   1. Right-click anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Boolean from the pop-up menu.
   2. Type content.notify.ontimer in the New boolean value pop-up window and click OK.
   3. You will be prompted to choose the value for the new boolean. Select true and click OK.
10. Notify Back Off Count: This option controls the maximum number of times the content will do timer-based re-flows. After this number has been reached, the page will only re-flow once it is finished downloading.
    1. Right-click anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.
    2. Enter content.notify.backoffcount in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.
    3. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 5 and click OK.
11. Content Switch Threshold: You can interact with a loading page when content.interrupt.parsing is set to true. When a page is loading, the application has two modes: a high frequency interrupt mode and a low frequency interrupt mode. The first one interrupts the parser more frequently to allow for greater UI responsiveness during page load.
    The low frequency interrupt mode interrupts the parser less frequently to allow for quicker page load. The application enters high frequency interrupt mode when you move the mouse or type on the keyboard and switch back to low frequency mode when you had no activity for a certain amount of time. This preference controls that amount of time.
    1. Right-click anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.
    2. Enter content.switch.threshold in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.
    3. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 750000 and click OK.
12. NG Layout Initial Paint Delay: Firefox renders web pages incrementally, they display what’s been received of a page before the entire page has been downloaded. Since the start of a web page normally doesn’t have much useful information to display, Firefox will wait a short interval before first rendering a page. This preference controls that interval.
    1. Rightclick anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.
    2. Enter nglayout.initialpaint.delay in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.
    3. You will be prompted to enter a value. Enter 0 and click OK.

These all tweaks, tips and tricks are really good, they work too. But, at the end of the day nothing compares to a Fast CPU, More RAM and a Blazing Fast Internet Connection. A dailup will always be a dialup, A T1 will be T1… there is no comparison and no trick in the world can make a dialup perform like a DSL…Forget it…

But still we try and you can see I am trying to get most juice out of my dialup Wish me luck..

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