I understand the concept, but in English what do I need to do?

This appears to be browser independent. Can anyone verify?


Anyone making changes to the registry should be very careful.

It's a configuration in the hidden configs of firefox

http://blog.brainstormbrand.com/productivity/2007/04/9-steps-to-speed-upbroadband-firefox-browsing

http://www.techspot.com/guides/44-firefox2-tweak-guide/page13.html

So, that means us FF users should do nothing?

yeah what about FF users?

You will have to tweak the settings per the instructions provided in the link.

Wayne: Won't this just cause congestion in the PP servers from all the hacked clients browsing the grid girls thread?

wow...thanks Rick it worked well for FF.

Thanks to Wayne and Steve....good find.

Wow, I never thought I'd see a webmaster recommending this....

excellent

Thanks Steve

I just did it and the speed increase is noticable even to my wife who was suprised how fast Gmail loaded up.

Thanks for that info I am going to do it at work tomarrow too.

I'm surprised that no one has brought this up yet for the Firefox users. But, there is an extension called Fasterfox that will handle these configurations for you and also allows you to exceed the RFC specifications if you so choose.

Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.

Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with the unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing.

The main configuration screen is very simple, just a list of pre-defined settings chosen from radio buttons. For most people, this is all they will need.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1178840111.jpg

However, if you click on the Custom button, you will see some more configuration tabs across the top.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1178840149.jpg

You can easily set custom settings for Cache.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1178840324.jpg

As well as set the number of connections that you can establish with web servers.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1178840471.jpg

However, for the greatest overall increase in browser performance comes when you enable Prefetching on the Firefox tab. Now, a lot of webmasters are up in arms about this because this does not adhere to the listed specs and essentially makes the users browser non-compliant. They complain because it puts additional stress on their servers. However, smart webmasters know that they can prevent this by adding two simple lines to robots.txt.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1178840903.jpg

Works great...noticable immediately.

Thanks

Fasterfox is interesting as it caches all the links on a page - so if you were on Google search results, it would cache all the links? Be careful as that will use up a lot of your bandwidth! :) Because you won't be going to all those links.

One more request for this in english

What registry and how do you hack it? Simple? Not to me.
Under what, where is this? Is this a file somewhere or what? Add it to what?
What value?

Thanks Wayne and Steve for the firefox one, seems to work faster with Firefox!

Here is the Microsoft tech note on this -

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/183110

Oh this is good. I only wish there was a 'speed Windows xp up on a laptop that's running REALLY slow lately to the point where I expect it to crash any day now'...

I shall be trying this for my FF. I don't like to mess with reg keys as sometimes you can mess things up (ask me how I know...)

Edit to add: there is no sarcasm intended for the first sentence.
Also, is the general consensus that the fix for FF in the settings better than the fasterfox extension? Which should I use/get?

Cheers guys! :D

The Reg fix is for IE only. FF needs the fasterfox or go in by hand. If you use FF, try the extension.

Laptop: Does the fan seem to be on high more often? I am dealing with a laptop at the moment, that reacts like yours. If the slow down is fairly recent, there is a small chance you have the 'oops patch' from Microsoft. They screwed up another update recently, but not every computer is having problems. The laptop I am dealing with is getting better, but more stuff has to be done tomorrow. Too tired tonight.

Dave