tony spencer

Stumbled upon your blog this morning.

Found the CPanel/PHP/Curl fix I had been hunting for, fixed (I hope) the crippling problem I have been having with Firefox freezing while I download files (seems better so far).

Remember the “Clapton is God” graffiti? Right now I am thinking “Tony Spencer is God”.

To quote the Governor of California “I’ll be back.”

Thanks for the great tips!

hey i messed up and made a boolean string for nglayout.initialpaint.delay and i can’t delete it or modify it properly
any suggestions?

hello – i just did these things and firefox crashed as usual.

firefox used to be excellent, top of its class… but now, it’s as bad or worse than bill’s creations. what is worse is that this has been happening for months and no fix has come out. i am not using switchproxy (which is what some people are using that seems to be causing the problems) as one of my extensions.

my extensions are:
stumbleupon
forecastfox
adblock
gmail notifier
flashblock
googlebar
resizeable text area

i have switched to opera now for general browsing but stumbleupon doesn’t have a downloadable opera version, so i’m stuck with disease ridden i.e. or buggy (and now infinitely annoying) firefox.

any help would be appreciated – i created a new profile thinking perhaps that would sort out the problems… nope.

I’m a non-techie, although I can follow your instructions. What I want to know is, will there be any problems implementing the changes? Do I need enough memory or something? What could possibly go wrong?

The Firefox extension called “FasterFox” did all of this for me.

May thanks. Certainly speeded my FF up.

Note to Jane – disable or remove AdBlock. That worked for my crashing FF.

Another note to Jane – When you installed Mozilla Firefox they should have put a Safe Mode shortcut in Start – All Programs – Mozilla Firefox. This will start FF without any extensions. If it runs acceptably fast with this shortcut then the problem is in one or more of the extensions (add-ons).

Thanks mate! I’m using Firefox 3 Beta 2 and I thought it couldn’t get any faster, but with your tweaks they did!!

Thanks a million. =)

This is by far the fastest I have ever seen Firefox fly!!! Finally, the name follow function with this info!!!!
Great tip with adding new entries!!!!

Looks like safari is going to the trash!!!

unbelievable speed. thanks!

all i gotta say is, SICKNESS!

Hey thanks, Tony and friends. I downloaded Firefox 3 and was very disappointed with all the hanging and crashing. But your tips have turned my little laptop into a real Net blazer! I could feel the restrictions relieving in the browser as I made the final changes. Amazing stuff.

One thing you might want to also add is that after doing the NGLayout tweat they need to then do the content.notify.interval and set that to 0 as well.

Hope that helps a little more

a milliion thanks..
wow, you aare so knowledgeble

and you helped me make my mind taking the “Computer Hardware and Operating Systems” course next year.lols.

i don’t know if this isn’t useful for macs, but i did everything you said to do, now my FF keeps crashing every couple seconds. *sighs*

Hey,

I just switched over to this from IE7 it is really nice. 1 question though if Firefox was not better than MS no one complains about it. if MS makes one mistake the whole world stop revolving and everyone protests.

I had been using Firefox 2 and was pretty happy with the performance. I recently upgraded to FF 3 and the drop in speed was painfully obvious. The same page took significantly longer to load and refresh. I stumbled on your blog while Googling and tried the “FasterFox” add-on suggested by Phil. Thanks Phil, my FireFox is amazingly fast now.
~Nagendra

I just tried to get fasterfox — there is no version at mozilla or the developers site that is compatible with firefox 3.0.1. i tried to install anyway and firefox rejected it because it was “not compatible!”

Just a problem with
nglayout.initialpaint.delay
it was already in my list, and I changed the value from 600 to 0 as required, but when I close and reopen FF, the value is set back to 600. Other boolean values are NOT reset after reopening. What can I do? Is there a “Save” feature or something?

Superb guide it certainly seems to speed up firefox big time! and I wouldnt be without this mod..
However I should point out that there is no point setting ‘network.http.pipelining.maxrequests’ as any higher than ‘8′ as this is the max according to what I read here.. http://www.nettechguide.com/how-to-speed-up-firefox-page-loading-times

Tech Master

Thanks very much for these great tips. When i first downloaded firefox 3 i recognized that it was slower than firefox which is also great. I didnt paymuch attention to speed, but now after i tried these tips, firefox3 seemed to work REALLY fast!!! with fast broadband DSL connection firefox is making webbrowsing much faster with the tips above!! i wonder why the developers of firefox didnt put these tips as default configuartions for the browser, that would have made firefox3 faster in the first place and gave better reputation to the newly released firefox…:P anyways, even if firefox 3 was a bit slower than the previous ones, one should put in mind that its a n open source browser and addons and patches can be made for it and thus problems can be solved! this is flexible software at least! it is not IE! IE SUCKS!!! especially IE7 ! LONG LIVE THE OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY! LONG LIVE FIREFOX! :p:p:p:p:p

Wow, this really works, i wish I knew this long ago. Thanks for sharing this! Also, if theres any Mozilla devolopers reading this, please take note and add this to the new release!! Peace

Thank you – this seems to have solved major problems I was having with Firefox 3 freezing and showing a beachball on Leopard 10.5

so i tried doing this on my mac, but it won’t let me add entries, because i can’t right click

Bruce: the interface only allows a right click on an existing table – so make sure you click the “Show All” button, and when you right click, do it on one of the existing entries.
oh! just realised you might not know how to right-click. Either hold down the “CTRL” button and click normally, or you can set a preference in “System Preferences->Mouse” to allow “two-finger” clicking, where you hold two fingers on the mouse pad and click to make a right click.

Good luck!