Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / October 2006

I would like comments on the suggestion contained at this website:

<http://www.kissedbyjudas.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=141&PN=1>

Specifically, the page contains the following recommendation for Firefox
users:

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"Do this, it really does work!

1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scrol 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 receives.

If you're using a brodband connection you'll load pages 2-30 times
faster now."

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I have done this and it certainly does make a difference. Any downside
on the user end? Any comment on why Firefox doesn't use these settings
as default?