Karuken's Browse-Better Guide If you're using Mozilla Firefox as your web browser, you can tweak some values in the settings to improve your speed when browsing the web. Note: Credit and thanks to blackoutzx for reminding me of the Firefox add-on called FastFox. He even gave us a link! https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1269/ -How fast your browser loads webpages is key in restocking, otherwise you'll have literally no chance of competing with other RSers because they'll get first dibs on all the good items! - -This is especially true for legit RSers!- - Most of these work the best if you have a DSL or faster connection, but they will work with a 56k. Just increase the value by 50% instead of doubling it, so there's not too much stress on your connection. 1) Type this into the address bar- Code (Text): about:config 2) Change the following values; which are in an alphabetized list. value.to.change - #tochangeitto network.http.max-connections - 48 network.http.max-connections-per-server - 16 network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server - 8 network.http.pipelining - on (true) network.http.pipelining.maxrequests - 8 ---If anyone would like an explanation of what these changes actually do, just ask!- ---I have had these tweaks in place for a while now, but I managed to find the site with the original guide that I used. (C) Karuken 2007 I love putting copyrights![/url] Please leave me some feedback. I don't know if this was helpful or not if someone doesn't say something positive...or add some constructive criticism.
It doesn't always make connecting faster, but with more than one connection you will be able to connect multiple times to retrieve multiple small bits of data, rather than a big chunk of data at once. For refreshing it helps to load the smaller picture first, and even if you have images turned off in Firefox, it will still load the items quicker. Also, if one connection is slow it will have multiple connections to fall back on. If you have a download manager you should watch how it connects to multiple servers to get a quicker download. ^_^ I hope that answered your question.
This is actually very helpful, I could use this alot! I am going to go try this and see how it works for me.
In general, increasing the maximum # of connection servers help your browser load web pages faster... So I guess the answer to your question is Increases Caution: Don't increase this value much past double it's original amount as it can slow the server (not your internet, but their server) that you are trying to connect to down. And I'm glad my guide helped you, ali913xx !!! I always appreciate positive or negative feedback ^_^
Rexx-I hope that it helps you out! LazyPando - 24 should be fine. I don't recommend going any higher, though I'm sure nothing catastrophic would happen if you did.
It's good that you posted this up, but these changes have been shown to give no noticeable improvement while browsing.
Ah, well they seem to help me out...do you have a source for that statement you just made? Normally I would trust that you wouldn't make that up, but it kind of completely denies the use of my guide. So if you could at least back up your statement, that would be nice... Thanks.
hi It's good that you posted this up, but these changes have been shown to give no noticeable improvement while browsing. Yes i downloaded it didnt do anything i noticed x.x
The guide doesn't require you to download anything, though. That download is just a firefox add-on, I don't know much information about it other than it's a popular and well-liked add-on. Did you try actually changing the settings like my guide suggests?
i did all this months ago.. forgot how my speed was like before i made the changes. firefox tends to stop loading pages all of a sudden though.. and most of the time internet explorer loads faster i just use firefox for the tabbed browsing and add-ons