Speed Up Firefox Tips

i put this up about 2 years ago, and you (joyrex) had a go at me because it rapes ppl websites with max request sent thing. apparently.

^finally the real reason we lost all those old threads

For me the speed of browsing using Firefox isn't the problem it's the first load time after booting windows - It takes almost a minute on my machine wheras Chrome takes about 5 seconds (although I think it cheats a bit as doesn't it run as a background process when you load up Windows ?)

  On 9/10/2009 at 9:59 PM, mcbpete said:

For me the speed of browsing using Firefox isn't the problem it's the first load time after booting windows - It takes almost a minute on my machine

I thought I was the only one...so frustrating.

1. Uninstall Firefox

2. Install Chrome

3. Viola

the long load up time is because ff in windows uses the temp folder to get its random numbers. if your temp dir is huge, it takes ages to load up. fuck knows why they don't fix it. you can fix the problem by just deleting your temp files. see here http://mozillalinks....ups-on-windows/

  On 9/10/2009 at 10:11 PM, azatoth said:

1. Uninstall Firefox

2. Install Chrome

3. Viola

i actually just had to switch from chrome because i was getting these weird "unavailable" errors, only with chrome. i looked up in some google discussion thread about people with the same problem and google didn't seem to know what it was. it was awesome until that started happening. will probably check back after a few builds

  On 9/10/2009 at 9:59 PM, mcbpete said:

For me the speed of browsing using Firefox isn't the problem it's the first load time after booting windows - It takes almost a minute on my machine wheras Chrome takes about 5 seconds (although I think it cheats a bit as doesn't it run as a background process when you load up Windows ?)

No, Chrome doesn't load any background processes - it's just faster, non-bloated code.

  On 9/10/2009 at 9:40 PM, chris moss acid said:

i put this up about 2 years ago, and you (joyrex) had a go at me because it rapes ppl websites with max request sent thing. apparently.

bitter, aren't we?

Seriously, I wasn't 'having a go at you', but just pointing out the consequences of having that feature enabled. I think websites are smarter these days too, with "nofollow" links so things like that don't pull more than they need to.

  On 9/10/2009 at 10:11 PM, azatoth said:

1. Uninstall Firefox

2. Install Chrome Safari

3. Viola

  On 9/10/2009 at 10:34 PM, inteeliguntdesign said:

the long load up time is because ff in windows uses the temp folder to get its random numbers. if your temp dir is huge, it takes ages to load up. fuck knows why they don't fix it. you can fix the problem by just deleting your temp files. see here http://mozillalinks....ups-on-windows/

Thanks.

2 more speed tweaks:

Flash playback stuttering or general browser hickups may be caused by session store. Session store keeps your current session for later recovery. You can disable it in about:config (browser.sessionstore.enabled) or increase the interval it stores the current session (browser.sessionstore.interval). This may help you.

Vacuum Places

"This extension allows you to defragment (vacuum) the Places database, used by FireFox.

Vacuum'ing can significantly reduce loading time of the browser and speed it up."

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13824

work't!

  On 9/11/2009 at 3:16 AM, Jonas said:

so how much speed increase is gained here? I need numbers for I try to fuck up my browser.

  On 9/11/2009 at 6:29 PM, Jonas said:

 

80 km?

No, I think it mentioned some ratio or multiplier in there somewhere...