Hack Your Way to Faster Surfing
If you do a lot of work online, you’ll appreciate this great find, courtesy of Tris Hussey over at Pimp Your Work. Here’s a tweak to load pages faster on Firefox:
- Obviously, launch Firefox if it isn’t open yet.
- Type about:config in the address bar.
- Type network in box beside Filter:
- Double click network.http.pipelining to set it to true.
- Double click pipelining.maxrequests and type in 10.
- Restart Firefox.
That’s it! And it really does work. Like Tris says, allowing your browser “to make more concurrent connections to a site” makes for faster surfing. Feeling left out IE users? Check out Tris’ post for more info.
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4 opinions for Hack Your Way to Faster Surfing
Tris Hussey
Jan 3, 2007 at 9:37 am
Thanks for the link Rico! The IE tweak is one that I’m kinda hesistant to use, just because I’m really loathe to edit my registry unless I really, really have to.
BTW, the plugin FasterFox will make the tweaks for you (I finally remembered!).
Rico
Jan 3, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Yeah, I’ve been traumatized by my many registry editing errors. :lol:
So that’s the name of the mysterious plug-in! ;) Thanks for the heads-up.
Glen
Jan 4, 2007 at 4:33 pm
thanks for the hack. I won’t even bother trying this for IE.
Rico
Jan 7, 2007 at 3:56 am
Ah, yet another Firefox fanatic joins the group. Would you know how 2.0 compares to the original? Haven’t gotten around to downloading it. :)
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