Firefox tweaks: god it's fast

Well, couple months ago downloaded this addon, Fasterfox Lite:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9148
Speeded up Firefox a little, but not that much.

So, no I found this page
http://www.speedupfirefox.com/

This was already enabled by faster fox, but next 2 things made Firefox FLY. (at least for me).

Although, how you english ppl say it? The free cheese is only in the mouse trap?
What are the downsides? If any?

P.S. I'm using FF3.5 b4.
P.P.S. I have a really fast internet, which really helps, apparently.

 

i've recently made these tweaks. i cant tell if there is a difference or not. in fact, firefox has been lagging a bit for me. i dunno if this is related to the new 3.10 FF version or anything to do with SP2, adding the ad-block plus add-on, or possibly just my dsl connection... hmmm.

 

firefox has gotten slower n slower for me lately. The start up time for it has gotten actually kinda slow even. I've switched to Chrome as my main browser due to it

 

what does this do to firefox exactly?

 

Since FF3, the setting of "network.http.pipelining" to "true" and "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" are what I turn on, plus "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 8.

cheers ...

 

"HTTP is the application-layer protocol that most web pages are transferred with. In HTTP 1.1, multiple requests can be sent before any responses are received. This is known as pipelining. Pipelining reduces network load and can reduce page loading times over high-latency connections, but not all servers support it. Some servers may even behave incorrectly if they receive pipelined requests. If a proxy server is not configured, this preference controls whether to attempt to use pipelining"

cheers ...

 

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Try 30

 

That's part of the reason I switched to Chrome a few weeks ago. Firefox also kept crashing on me. Until Chrome dies, I probably won't be switching to Firefox anytime soon.

 

Just FYI from a server admin:

30 simultaneous requests can be very hard on servers. It's like someone driving down the middle of the street instead of staying in their lane. Don't go overboard with the max requests, be a good net citizen. Try 15 or so first, and go with as FEW as you can while still seeing a decent speedup. That's all you should need on any sane page anyway. If you're on an iffy connection, it can even slow down your performance.

And don't forget... when you're messing around in about:config there is a chance you could make Firefox inoperable. Tread lightly, and if you don't know what something does, don't change it.

 

So, do I owe you 10$ or 20$?

 

It barely makes any difference, still slower than IE8 (now my default browser). I was hoping it would make it faster than IE8, but I didn't.

 

this stopped my firefox running at 100% cpu woot!

EDIT: well it did for 5 minutes..

 

Wow. Which FF you using?

p.S. These tweaks don't ahve anything to do with Cpu or etc. Only with speed you download page.

 

i did the about:config thing with the pipelining stuff b4, didnt do anything, in fact, i was getting more lag, so i switched to the default.