Nice Firefox tweak - any more?

[Jizzlobber]

Came across this the other day and noticed a difference immediately (tried posting the link but the server timed out):

1) Open Firefox

2) 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

3) Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true" (simply double click the entry)

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" (simply double click the entry)

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

Now 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.

4) Close Firefox

5) Re-open and test for speed

 

[Juicify]

Or you can get the extension Fasterfox - Performance and network tweaks for Firefox. which does it all for you with predefined settings or you can set alot of settings manually in it.

 

[jason407]

Be careful tweaking your maxrequests...I have heard that some webhosts are starting to put a "per ip" limit in effect because too many people have tweaked their browsers this way, and it is causing some smaller servers to choke.

 

[Jizzlobber]

Good info guys. I'm on an efficiency kick to try and work smarter. Started with a browser overhaul and organized my bookmarks. Wish I could do more with my FTP interface...

 

[elime]

Good info guys. I'm on an efficiency kick to try and work smarter. Started with a browser overhaul and organized my bookmarks. Wish I could do more with my FTP interface...

What are you using for FTP? I've used Filezilla for quite a while now, it's a great app. Very easy to organize different servers / connections, etc. Or do you mean a web interface?

 

[Jizzlobber]

What are you using for FTP?

I've used CuteFTP for years. I do the majority of my coding by hand and find myself doing a good bit of my work from within the ftp program. The problem is that the text editor can be squirrelly at times - I'll place the [SIZE=-1]I-cursor somewhere and start typing only to look back at the screen and find out that maybe my first few keystrokes took and nothing else, or I'll select a block of code to delete, hit delete and nothing happens or I get prompted to delete a file. I may resurrect an old version of Homesite that I used to work with years ago that had built in FTP - I liked the way I could customize the tool bar and store code snippets as a toolbar button. The extended find and replace function was pretty sweet too.[/SIZE]

 

[thedamian]

I've used CuteFTP for years... The problem is that the text editor can be squirrelly at times

I also use filezilla (very fast) but for what you're using Jizzlobber I also recommend WinSCP (WinSCP :: Free SFTP and FTP client for Windows) also an ftp client that acts like a text editor. It also has sFTP (don't want everyone seeying my ftp password)

The text editor is pretty good and since it's like a windows explorer it'll let you open textpad instead.

PLUS it fits on your USB Driver (and can write your settings to it) so you can carry your web editing tool where ever you go.

But I LOVE dreamweaver. I don't use the WYSIWIG part. but the editor is top of the line. The unlimited Undo's , grouping of parts of the text (to fix multiple IF statement mistakes) and the search multil files at a time features are killer.

But I don't think it's worth the $400 they charge for it!

 

[Jizzlobber]

But I LOVE dreamweaver. I don't use the WYSIWIG part. but the editor is top of the line. The unlimited Undo's , grouping of parts of the text (to fix multiple IF statement mistakes) and the search multil files at a time features are killer.

But I don't think it's worth the $400 they charge for it!

I'm not sure but I think most of those features came as a result of Macromedia sucking up Homesite. I'm a big fan of Textpad as well so I may try your suggestion to see if it likes my stride.

 

[aim]

Depending on what language you do your development in, I'd highly recommend NuSphere PHPEd. I used dreamweaver for years but recently starting using this new product, and it's much better than dreamweaver, and I've never been able to say that.

For FTP Client, I always pretty much use SSH Secure Shell. You can download it for free from here: ftp://ftp.ssh.com/pub/ssh/SSHSecureShellClient-3.2.9.exe

 

[Jizzlobber]

I'd highly recommend NuSphere PHPEd

Found 5.2 on the newsgroups and installed it. This is quite the rig. Kind of overwhelming at first but hey, I'm visiting from the world of glorified text editors. I'm beginning to learn PHP and I'm sure I'll benefit from working in a more professional interface. I think I'll just do my next site from start to finish in NuShpere rather than risk an existing site trying to figure it out. Thanks for the tip - this may be the transition I've been looking for.

 

[Netphase]

Or you can get the extension Fasterfox - Performance and network tweaks for Firefox. which does it all for you with predefined settings or you can set alot of settings manually in it.

Just leave the prefetching off.

I block it.

User-agent: Fasterfox
Disallow: /