Firefox HTTP Pipelining Tweaks

May 06 2009

  1. get flash block, but don’t restart yet. Flash leeches bandwidth
  2. %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.xxx\, where xxx is a random string of 3 characters.
  3. add these to user.js (and save as all files in notepad)
      user_pref(“network.http.pipelining”, true);
      user_pref(“network.http.proxy.pipelining”, true);
      user_pref(“network.http.pipelining.maxrequests”, 8);
      user_pref(“content.notify.backoffcount”, 5);
      user_pref(“plugin.expose_full_path”, true);
      user_pref(“ui.submenuDelay”, 0);

      user_pref(“browser.xul.error_pages.enabled”, true);
      user_pref(“content.interrupt.parsing”, true);
      user_pref(“content.max.tokenizing.time”, 3000000);
      user_pref(“content.maxtextrun”, 8191);
      user_pref(“content.notify.interval”, 750000);
      user_pref(“content.notify.ontimer”, true);
      user_pref(“content.switch.threshold”, 750000);
      user_pref(“network.http.max-connections”, 32);
      user_pref(“network.http.max-connections-per-server”, 8);
      user_pref(“network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy”, 8);
      user_pref(“network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server”, 4);
      user_pref(“nglayout.initialpaint.delay”, 0);
      user_pref(“browser.cache.memory.capacity”, 65536);

  4. That works for slow connections. For faster ones, try other settings on this webpage.
  5. restart firefox.
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