16 Responses to “Optimize Firefox for Broadband”

1. Yunus Yesilmen Mar 7th, 2008 at 12:42 am

   thanks Nirmal, appling now…

2. Hammad Mar 7th, 2008 at 1:50 am

   thanks nirmal really nice post
   im trying it right now and will let you know about the results
   and btw i m a new reader and i must say its an excellent blog
   gj ….. just subscribed

3. Joel Mar 7th, 2008 at 2:43 am

   Maybe firefox should ask for these settings when we install…then it would have been good…now most of the good features remain hidden…good that you pointed it out…

4. Nirmal Mar 7th, 2008 at 8:10 am

   @Joel,
   Right, many features are hidden in Firefox, common users may not know these.

5. Nirmal Mar 7th, 2008 at 10:27 am

   @Hammad,
   Thanks for the visit, glad that you liked my blog.

6. Rakshit Mar 7th, 2008 at 3:07 pm

   Long before I tried this technique to improve the browsing speed of Firefox. I read that somewhere. But I couldn’t notice any significant change in it. I am still not sure whether this actually works or not. Please correct me if I am wrong.

7. Nirmal Mar 7th, 2008 at 3:11 pm

   @Rakshit,
   Well I’m not sure whether this will bring about a huge change, may be a small one.

8. Ashish Mohta Mar 7th, 2008 at 7:50 pm

   @Rakshit: If you already have a good speed you might not notice. This can be useful for people like having a speed of less than 256 or who are on USB Wifi.

   @Nirmal: What does the last option ment for ?

9. Nirmal Mar 7th, 2008 at 9:15 pm

   @Rakshit,
   I have noted an increase in the speed of Firefox while loading the websites.

   @Ashish,
   The last option says how much time Firefox has to wait before rendering or loading the websites, generally its not set in config and so defaults to 250, setting it to 0 will start the rendering process immediately.

10. Rakshit Mar 7th, 2008 at 11:02 pm

    @Ashish
    Yea, you may be right.I’ll try this out on my home internet connection which happens to be only 64kbps.
    

    @Nirmal
    It’s nice to hear that.
    

11. Kannan Mar 9th, 2008 at 1:13 pm

    I didnt find any difference. I may not be noticing.

12. Alfred Mar 11th, 2008 at 10:27 pm

    Hey Nirmal,
    thats a nice tip, ive done it, will test if it makes any difference.
    im back after a 1 month break and ur was the first site i started checking, lots of me things to read, keep it up

13. Ashok Mar 22nd, 2008 at 6:50 pm

    Hi Nirmal,
    Thanks for your tips..it seems to be a good tweak for firefox. If you have ny new tweaks to increase Broadband speed, please share with us.. Thanks man,Keep up the good work

14. Don Jun 2nd, 2008 at 3:58 am

    Nirmal,
    Thanks for the tip. It was recommended to my local Mac club, and more than one of our users reports better Firefox performance.

    I read your tip “How To Back-Up Firefox Settings.” For Mac users, do you know what file is equivalent to the Windows Firefox settings file “prefs.js?” I don’t find a file with that name on my Mac (using Firefox v2.0.0.14).

    Thanks a lot!

15. Gary Kampel Jun 7th, 2008 at 6:06 pm

    First, I am not a computer code writer. Just a guy that read your suggestion and passed it on to others in my Macintosh User Group

    I was reading the article at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Ngla.....aint.delay and was wondering why not set the value at “1″ rather than “0″? Would the one millisecond give the program a breif moment to “catch its breath?”

    Also, Mozilla suggests changing content.notify.interval too. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Content.notify.interval
    What are your thoughts on this? What, if anything, would you set this for and why?

16. Seth Woodworth Jul 13th, 2008 at 5:22 pm

    The network.http.pipelining.maxrequests only accepts values from 1 to 8 inclusive according to the Firefox wiki:

    http://kb.mozillazine.org/Netw.....axrequests

    Where did you get 15 from? Was this a value from FF2.0?

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