Nice Firefox tuning tips
The userbase of Firefox is still growing and because of that, thousands of people notices some problems about this browser. Probably the most common one is extreme consumption of RAM, when you browse with Firefox little longer. This bug isn’t bug actually, it’s a feature, although it may sound little weird. There’s a option to configure this cache function, but it’s kinda hidden in Firefox config file. This tip is quite old, but because there’s probably still a lot of people having issues with this, I feel it could be helpfull to post here few recommendations:
Kill the amount of RAM Firefox uses for it’s cache feature
Here’s how to fix it:
1. type “about:config� (no quotes) in the browser.
2. Find browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer
2. set it’s value to “0″
Increase the Speed in Which Firefox loads pages
1.Type “about:config� into the address bar and hit return.
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set “network.http.pipelining� to “true�
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining� to “true�
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests� to some number like 30.
This means it will make 30 requests at once.
3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay� and set its value to “0″.
This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages faster now
More options for your about:config (you might have to create some of these entries by Right Click –> New– > Interger or String
network.dns.disableIPv6: set “false�
“content.notify.backoffcount�: set “5″
“plugin.expose_full_path�: set “true�.
“ui.submenuDelay�: set “0″ (zero)
Kill RAM usage to 10mb when FF is minimized
This little about:config hack will drop Firefox’s RAM usage down to 10 Mb when minimized
1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.
Ok I hope this makes a few people’s browsing experience a bit better with Firefox and debunks a myth about their being a bug.
thy this makes firefox really faster
Nice.
Huh, saves nicely sys. resources.. thanks to who ever figured those out.
Seeing as since virtually the first ever release of firefox you have had to tweak it to get it faster etc by now you’d of thought they would of set it like that as default?
Im mean why would you release as default using loads of ram and being sluggish? Wheres the logic in that?
thx!
network.http.proxy.pipelining-thingie is voodoo. It is an experimental feature and according to Mozilla’s website “is unfortunately not well supported by some web servers and proxies”, so your mileage will vary. Setting up the maxrequests to something big would just swamp the server, fortunately putting it above 8 does nothing, as HTTP 1.1 specs limit it to 8. Otherwise something like 30 would bring down webservers quite quickly.
nglayout.initialpaint.delay is also voodoo, as one of the main developers point out: “setting the initial paint delay at zero, may get you some content on the screen faster, but it’s worth noting that it will dramatically slow down the time it takes the entire page to display.”
Most of these tips & tricks are available somewhere in mozilla’s homepage with helpful commentary on just exactly what you’re tuning.
thanks
Regarding the speed-settings you can also use an extension called fasterfox, it work’s great.
I use fasterfox too, quick and easy to use.
Does fasterfox not already use the ideas in this post??
lovin ur shit rlslog, just pimped my firefox out so ready to cruise down the info-hiway in style. boo yakaa shaaa!
@gwb: The speed settings, yes. It just changes all the user-settings comfortably.
nice tweaks.
You guys should really expand your ‘How-To Help’ section, and these the type of things you should include.
Good tweaks, I seen some of these tweaks before though.
thanks
Great tips! FF works faster:)
Cheers mate!
thanks for the tips.
The Firefox plugin Fasterfox (from http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/ ) does nearly the same things (without the voodoo), plus it stops the time it needs to load each page in the status bar.
how do i reset those settings ?
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