Need a little help with firefox speedup

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Hi, I found a thing by someone on here, Polonus or Bob360 I think (Sorry if I’m wrong)

Speed up Firefox

October 11, 2007 at 8:45 pm · in Browsers · Comments

Mitch Bartlett gave a few “about:config” tweaks
to help speed up Firefox.

* content.interrupt.parsing - true
* content.max.tokenizing.time - 2250000
* content.notify.interval - 750000
* content.notify.ontimer - true
* content.switch.threshold - 750000
* nglayout.initialpaint.delay - 0
* network.http.max-connections - 48
* network.http.max-connections-per-server - 16
* network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy - 16
* network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server - 8
* browser.cache.memory.capacity - 65536

But, The problem is - I don’t know which ones are Boolean or integers etc.

The other thing is this, It’s called

SelectableElementsTable.js - Some about speeding up firefox which Bob360 put on
But when I open the File it says…

WINDOWS SCRIPT HOST (Title)

Script: C:\Documents and Settings\Katherine\Desktop\SelectableElementsTable.js
Line: 405
Char: 1
Error: Syntax Error
Code: 800A03EA
Source: Microsoft JScript complication error

Any help? I really want to speed up my firefox…

Oh and is there a huge list of Tweaks for maximum speed?

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Personally I would be wary of using any of these as they are almost a year old and that would be for firefox 2.0 or possibly 2.5. Since we are using firefox 3.0.1 I don’t know if these values might already be incorporated in some way.

So first I would suggest opening about:config and using the filter window type network.http this should show what settings exist and what their values and if they are integers or boolean. Then do the same for the other items, e.g. content.

As a general rule of thumb, True, False are boolean values and numbers are Integers you don’t have any in your list that are Strings.

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Hi, I found a thing by someone on here, Polonus or Bob360 I think (Sorry if I'm wrong)
The author is polonus I'm hosting it on my server: http://mysharedfiles.no-ip.org/FirefoxSpeedup/FirefoxSpeedup.html I would suggest that we wait for polonus to comment as it it's effectiveness for the latest version of Firefox.
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Ok thanks Bob and DavidR

If I redownload firefox, the settings revert back don’t they? I’ll try them anyway

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Re-installing Firefox will not revert the settings in your config file - FF will simply use the old profile and settings if it still exists.

To revert to new you would need to ensure that you have deleted the Firefox profiles before re-installing FF3.

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Ok, Thanks - I don’t think it’s made any difference. Do you mean Computer Profiles? or is there just a folder that I delete?

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No, not wishing to put words into Alan’s mouth, he is talking about firefox user profiles.

They usually live here C:\Documents and Settings[i]YourUserName[/i]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles, it will most likely be the default profile that is the one.

After uninstalling Firefox you could completely remove the Mozilla folder and really start afresh.