Ready, steady, get Firefox

[LazyLion]

I have been using this for about 2 hours now. Have not seen any problems yet.

No you wouldn't. The problems would be on the server side. It's the Internet equivalent of you going into Pick and Pay with 30 shopping trolleys. It's like raping the server. If somebody else clicks on the server at the same time as you, they might get a "denied" request.

Read here for more info...

http://85.17.184.130/forums/index.php?showtopic=29238

http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/showtopic9967.htm

 

[Just_Ice]

**Reduces the max requests to 5**

 

[d0b33]

Found this somewhere on the internet

1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit enter. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

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.


NOTE: this trick only works for broadband users not for dialup.

Firefox is fast enough, this hack won't make a noticeable difference I suspect since it's never worked for me in the past.
*on ADSL line*

 

[pjjdp]

**Reduces the max requests to 5**

Ditto

 

[mancombseepgood]

I am struggling to find a version of FF that doesn't want to install to the following folder:
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 5\

I was under the impression that this was a final release... why the beta folder? Is that perhaps because I had a beta on before installing this release? The file properties under digital signatures says June 11th and is 7,406,920 bytes in size. Anyone else confirm this?

 

[.Froot.]

My final release, updated last week, said FF3. However, it also used that folder. I simply ran the executable and (17 June) FF3 installed without any hitches.

 

[mancombseepgood]

Ok, hopefully it's the final.... thanks froot

 

[ginggs]

I was under the impression that this was a final release... why the beta folder? Is that perhaps because I had a beta on before installing this release?

Yes, that would be why. You should be able to change the installation directory while installing though.

Mine just wanted to install to "D:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox". When I installed the 3.0 beta, I changed the installation directory to overwrite Firefox 2.

The file properties under digital signatures says June 11th and is 7,406,920 bytes in size. Anyone else confirm this?

The "Firefox Setup 3.0.exe" I downloaded was 7,330,864 bytes in size, md5sum: 8284a15c2d58a3237891b0d17d85661c, language: English (British).

 

[.Froot.]

Ok, hopefully it's the final.... thanks froot

To make sure, go to <Help>-<Check for updates>. It you in Windows. In Linux, go to your console and type "ksudo apt-get install firefox3".

 

[LazyLion]

Found this somewhere on the internet

1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit enter. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

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.


NOTE: this trick only works for broadband users not for dialup.

I just read in the MozillaZine Knowledge Base...

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

... that Firefox will not allow you to set that higher than 8 anyway. And the higher the setting the greater the delay. So your performance gain here is limited or actually detrimental. Just thought I would add that as I stumbled across it.