Re: OT: Mozilla Firefox 3 is out as of yesterday

Ben, (All), Couple of years ago someone in the New.mozilla.org groups, reported the same changes to there config. These changes have been around since "Mozilla" was king of the browsers (pre Firefox). At the time it was recommended *Not* to exceed 16 as the value of the pipelining.maxrequests parameter. It seemed that anything greater caused one of the versions of Mozilla to get lost in it self. And it also had to be a *multiple* of 2 (2,4,8,16,....), this was in the Pentium PC time frame.
I would believe that the problem is fixed, but I would still keep it at 16 and in increments of 2 (1-In/1-Out).
YM2CW
JDa


Ben Myers, did transcribed the following::
Interesting. Well, it seems a little faster now, but I did not do a formal
benchmark or anything. We shall see. Thank you... Ben Myers

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:52:04 -0400, "Robert Dubenezic" <moto7002@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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!

"journey" <journey@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:p9bi54lir2c4devvlcpa7rrbooju0n422o@xxxxxxxxxx
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:13:10 -0500, RnR <rnrtexas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just thought it was worth mentioning. I was able to d/l it yesterday
afternoon and install it. Just beware that some add on's that worked
with version 2.0 may not work with 3.0.

My first impression is that it is slightly faster. I can't say how I
like the other improvements as I haven't really used any and likely
some are rather subtle vs. obvious. Hopefully guys like Journey who
are a lot better than myself in writing reviews, can give the browser
a more detailed review here. And if anyone wants to know how it
compares to IE xx , I can't say since I don't use IE unless I have to.
Also, I can't say yet if 3.0 is a gotta have over version 2.0 as I was
pretty happy with version 2.0.

disclaimer: I have no connection to Mozilla except as an end user.
Hi RnR, I think you should give yourself credit. Most of my reviews
have actually been more wordy than they needed to be which is
something I am working on.

Thanks for the heads up on Firefox 3.0. I wonder why Firefox didn't
tell me a new version was out when I launched it.

Hopefully, the main extension that I use, Foxmarks, will work with
Firefox version 3.0.

.

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