Firefox Help

[Jon MW]

My PC doesn't seem to like it when I have more than 600 tabs open at the same time.

Disabling images and scripts helped a bit, but does anybody know of any other options I can change to make Firefox run faster?

[kinboshi]

How much RAM have you got?

[HOLDorFOLD]

Try having just 599 tabs open, that worked for me 

[Jon MW]

How much RAM have you got?

512

I could ask my boss to upgrade the RAM on my PC but I suspect he'd tell me to try HOLDorFOLD's suggestion instead

[kinboshi]

Get 2GB.  That'll sort it out.

I upgraded from 1GB to 2GB and the change was unbelievable.  Only cost £30-odd quid as well.

Go to crucial.com (UK page) and do the system scan.  It'll tell you what you have, what you can have, and how much it'll cost.  If you use Firefox you'll have to download the application; on IE it runs in the browser.

[Suited_Jock]

these dang fangled computers with their 2mb of RAM enough for a word document i tells thee!!!


I think you meant GB Kinfish

[AndrewT]

My PC doesn't seem to like it when I have more than 600 tabs open at the same time.

Disabling images and scripts helped a bit, but does anybody know of any other options I can change to make Firefox run faster?

You need to just select your favourite five or six porn sites instead of opening them all at once.

[happybhoy]

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.

[Jon MW]

My PC doesn't seem to like it when I have more than 600 tabs open at the same time.

Disabling images and scripts helped a bit, but does anybody know of any other options I can change to make Firefox run faster?

You need to just select your favourite five or six porn sites instead of opening them all at once.

It's far more sordid than that - they were lawyers web sites.

[Jon MW]

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.

I will try this out - it certainly sounds impressive

[kinboshi]

these dang fangled computers with their 2mb of RAM enough for a word document i tells thee!!!


I think you meant GB Kinfish

[ifm]

Get IE7 and open 601 tabs, much quicker.

[Nem]

install faster fox add on and clean your temp files with atf cleaner

[Bongo]

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.

Apparently this will actually slow the total page load time down, although it obviously looks like it's loading quicker...

[RichEO]

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.

I thinks this is on a different tangent. It won't help speed firefox up when it has loads of tabs open. The problem is it will probably be using all the available RAM. So yes, more RAM would help. But.. I have 2GB and if I've had firefox open for a few days it has memory leaks and will be using a ridiculous amount of RAM. It needs a restart now and then, bookmark all your open tabs in a TEMP folder, close firefox and open it again, then middle click the TEMP folder and it will open them all again.

IE limits the number of tabs you can open so it doesn't get as slow (I'm not sure if there is a preset number or if it varies on what your PC is capable of).

You could try Opera, it will certainly allow you to open lots of tabs and not slow down browsing as it uses little RAM. It will have different compatibility with some sites though, so you will still need firefox / IE for some.