I was stumbling through the net today and I ran across some tips on speeding up Firefox that I never tried. I applied these tips to Seamonkey in puppy 2.13 and my download speed and page loading improved at least 50 percent on my 56K modem.
I understand they have a lot to do with helping the DNS server figure out what to do faster.
If you dont like waiting for your page to load try these tips by adding these lines by right clicking or change the value of the existing lines in 'about:config' to the following:
browser.cache.memory.capacity user set integer 65536
content.interrupt.parsing user set boolean true
content.max.tokenizing.time user set integer 2250000
content.notify.backoffcount user set integer 5
content.notify.interval user set integer 750000
content.notify.ontimer user set boolean true
content.switch.threshold user set integer 750000
network.dns.disableIPv6 user set boolean true
network.http.pipelining user set boolean true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests user set integer 8 (MAX SEEN IS 8.)
network.http.proxy.pipelining user set boolean true
network.prefetch-next user set boolean false (FOR DIAL-UP)
nglayout.initialpaint.delay user set integer 0
plugin.expose_full_path user set boolean true
ui.submenuDelay user set integer 0
I found this in a tech article dated today at http://www.helpero.com/ I think.
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I just tried the other tip - can't find the message.
Firefox starts noticable faster on my Celeron 2200
Add this line to one of the startscripts, like
/usr/local/bin/mozstart.sh
add after the line
#!/bin/sh
Pango is a vector based render-engine from Gtk that slows down things.
It might be required to display SVG grafics, did not try yet, if disabling it has an effect on the ability to display SVG.
But SVG is used seldom, so the gain in speed is really worth to try it.
Thanks for this great tip, Mark
Firefox starts noticable faster on my Celeron 2200
Add this line to one of the startscripts, like
/usr/local/bin/mozstart.sh
add after the line
#!/bin/sh
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export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1
It might be required to display SVG grafics, did not try yet, if disabling it has an effect on the ability to display SVG.
But SVG is used seldom, so the gain in speed is really worth to try it.
Thanks for this great tip, Mark
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My Seamonkey loads much faster with that hack. SVG opens fine in Inkscape 0.45 when I go to a test page in Seamonkey. I don't use Firefox now. That hack seems to work best when loading local or cashed pages.
EDIT: SVG. Enabled is set to true in my about:config so disabling Pango may be disabling the in browser SVG reader. Oh well it works in Inkscape and like you say it's faster.
I hear Firefox has come out with 2.0.0.2rc and 1.5.10rc that is supposed to fix some of these bugs in 2.0.0.1 and 1.5.09 that drew me away. They also have 1.5.10rc out because there are alot of people that are still using 1.5 because of extension compatability not to mention it's higher quality IMO. They are supposed to load faster. This should leak down to Seamonkey soon as well.
EDIT: SVG. Enabled is set to true in my about:config so disabling Pango may be disabling the in browser SVG reader. Oh well it works in Inkscape and like you say it's faster.
I hear Firefox has come out with 2.0.0.2rc and 1.5.10rc that is supposed to fix some of these bugs in 2.0.0.1 and 1.5.09 that drew me away. They also have 1.5.10rc out because there are alot of people that are still using 1.5 because of extension compatability not to mention it's higher quality IMO. They are supposed to load faster. This should leak down to Seamonkey soon as well.
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If you have Puppy running on multiple machines, you may not want to use theEdFromHouston wrote:I was stumbling through the net today and I ran across some
tips on speeding up Firefox ... ... try these tips by adding these lines by right clicking or
change the value of the existing lines in 'about:config' to the following:
browser.cache.memory.capacity user set integer 65536
content.interrupt.parsing user set boolean true
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about:config approach to enter the browser settings on each machine. ( I didn't ).
I searched and found that a user preset file can be created. If present, it will be read
when Seamonkey/Firefox/et al start up.
In Puppy, the folder that holds the file is:
Seamonkey /root/.mozilla/default/r3y1skkw.slt/user.js
Firefox .... ... /usr/local/firefox/defaults/profile/user.js
Here are the above settings in the format for user.js
Cut, paste, save and put on each of your puppy machines.
Restart your browser. You should be able to see the settings using about:config.
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Mark, I'm using Pup 2.10 right now and it has
"mozstart" not "mozstart.sh" ie. /usr/local/bin/mozstart
So I put "export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1" in there.
rod
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# User pre-sets for Seamonkey/Firefox/etc
# user.js
# Seamonkey Pup2.10 /root/.mozilla/default/r3y1skkw.slt/user.js
# Firefox Pup 2.13 /usr/local/firefox/defaults/profile/user.js
# Rod / GatorDog FEB 2007
# According to Computerworld:
# Modified Value: "browser.cache.memory.capacity"
# Depends on your system's total memory.
# For RAM sizes between 512BM and 1GB, start with 15000 (16384).
# For RAM sizes between 128MB and 512M, try 5000.
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.enable", true);
user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold ", 750000);
user_pref("network.dns.disableIPv6", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.prefetch-next", false);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
user_pref("plugin.expose_full_path", true);
user_pref("ui.submenuDelay", 0);
# More tweeks I came across.
# May apply mostly to a broadband connection.
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 6);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("network.http.request.max-start-delay", 0);
Tweaking Firefox
[http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_8.html]
A great site to speedup firefox
A great site to speedup firefox