Friday, December 21, 2007

Speedup browsing in Firefox

Pipelining is a technique in which multiple http requests are written out to a socket without waiting for response. Since it is possible to send several HTTP requests in a single tcp packet, this reduces network load and enhances speed.

IE does not provides any way to enable Pipelining.

To enable pipelining in Firefox use the following steps:

Type about:config in your browsers address bar.
Modify the following values:

  • network.http.pipelining to true
  • network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to a number between 2 to 8
  • network.http.proxy.pipelining to true
Restart the browser to make the changes take affect.

The HTTP/1.1 specification does not says how many requests to pipeline (specified by network.http.pipelining.maxrequests).

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