With this trick, you will be able to load more pages faster, and actually take use of your broadband connection.

This will slow down FF for dialup users, or users who are on a slow connection. Basically it changes the amount of requests that are sent out.

ALL credit goes to http://forevergeek.com/open_source/m...fox_faster.php for their findings.

Be sure to close/open your browser once you make the changes (it seemed to make it work a bit better for me).

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For those of you who want to know what you are changing, I ran across a pretty good post here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewto...age=15&start=0

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To those who are trying this.... Bobby made a typo and wanted me to post about it. He wrote to go to page about_:config but he accidentally added that underscore. It should just be: about:config but without the underscore. For some reason GID Forums adds that underscore. So when u copy and paste take out the underscore.

There is an extension that saves you all the hassle with just a tickbox required, I'll go find it.

Can't find it now, but you may want to read This first

Cheers
Rob

Thank you for the correction alex, but I think the underscore character is being inserted by this forum script for some strange reason.

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Alex,
- I am back at the computer, thanks for the reply

Rob,
- Glad to see you around again. I think you are thinking about the FireFox Tweak mod, but that doesn't actually do what I said above...

JdS,
- Not sure why that is happening... but it sounds like you will have lots of fun with this one.

Here is a test to see what causes the problem and when it is caused:
"about:config"- typed about colon config with quotes
about:config - typed about colon config without quotes
"about:" - typed about colon with quotes
about: - typed about colon without quotes
":config" - typed colon config with quotes
:config - typed colon config without quotes
":" - typed colon with quotes
: - typed colon without quotes

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Can't say for certain, but it does seem faster. Does anyone have any benchmarks?

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I dont think there are many benchmark programs that can test this.

Some people will notice a difference, others won't. Basically, it doubles the amount of requests sent. It is faster, you just might not be able to tell the difference.

Visit www.bandwidthspeedtest.com and post your results from their free test.

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Firefox ran a lot faster with this, but the bandwidth tests remained the same. It is incredibly useful, though. I find that it has left IE in the dust.