How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity)

How To Speed Up Firefox (Helpful Vanity)
Posted on 12/12/2004 12:45:50 PM PST by KoRn
"Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

1.Type 'about:config' into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
- network.http.pipelining
- network.http.proxy.pipelining
- network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
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 recieves.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!"

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Sysinternals - PsTools

Sysinternals Freeware - Utilities for Windows NT and Windows 2000 - PsTools
These tools allow you to manage remote systems as well as the local one. The "Ps" prefix in PsList relates to the fact that the standard UNIX process listing command-line tool is named "ps", so this prefix is used for all the tools in order to tie them together into a suite of tools named PsTools.

The tools included in the PsTools suite, which are downloadable individually or as a package, are:

* PsExec - execute processes remotely
* PsFile - shows files opened remotely
* PsGetSid - display the SID of a computer or a user
* PsKill - kill processes by name or process ID
* PsInfo - list information about a system
* PsList - list detailed information about processes
* PsLoggedOn - see who's logged on locally and via resource sharing (full source is included)
* PsLogList - dump event log records
* PsPasswd - changes account passwords
* PsService - view and control services
* PsShutdown - shuts down and optionally reboots a computer
* PsSuspend - suspends processes
* PsUptime - shows you how long a system has been running since its last reboot (PsUptime's functionality has been incorporated into PsInfo)

All of the utilities in the PsTools suite work on Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The PsTools download package includes an HTML help file with complete usage information for all the tools.