beantown Posted July 15, 2006 CID Share Posted July 15, 2006 Can someone please tell me why my download speeds are so much slower with FireFox versus IE6 I se a 10%+ speed increase with IE. Any ideas on how to speed up FireFox? Thanks, Beantown PS. I have Carolina Road Runner 5000/384 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MttFrog13 Posted July 15, 2006 CID Share Posted July 15, 2006 This is a known fact, so you should just do your speed tests with IE instead of FF. There are a lot of tweaks that some people say increase the performance. Sorry to be lazy but i didnt look for the link just google firefox speed tweaks or something. I dont know if there are any tweaks that will actually increase ur dl speeds on ff but u can always try it out....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MttFrog13 Posted July 16, 2006 CID Share Posted July 16, 2006 There is one firefox tweak that will make browsing be a lot smoother, and in some cases actually faster while using Firefox. One feature of firefox is when you load a page, there is a 250sec delay while the downloaded info piles up, before it actually appears on the screen. If you are on a modern computer and a broadband connection i highly recommend this tweak. Its nothing to fancy so everyone should go ahead and give it a try. Heres a description of it i found on the web: nglayout.initialpaint.delay [integer] (0) - This setting determines how many milliseconds Firefox should way before it starts to display the page contents. This brief delay allows Firefox to load and arrange the various page components as correctly as possible. The default is 250 milliseconds which isn't very long, however I recommend you set this to 0 to provide the earliest possible viewing of web content and improve the responsive feel of Firefox. The tweak removes the 250 sec delay so there is no wait until the info for the web page actually appears on screen. If someone was on a slow connection like dial-up or below 768Kbps download, some pages will slowly appear piece by peice. But hell, if you are on a 30MB download connection your page will basically almost or even already be done. I'm no expert but after using it on my 3MB/768kbps connection I love it. You can find out more about the tweak and how to do it <A HREF="http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#oth_rendering">HERE</A> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kamil234 Posted July 16, 2006 CID Share Posted July 16, 2006 also..you can make your firefox load pages quicker if you do this: in adress bar type about:config go to network.http.pipelining.maxrequest double click change value to 30 (it sends 30 requests to download data from page instead of default 4) go down to network.http.proxy.pipelining change value to true that should do it. see if it works any faster, if not than you can change it back to default. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatdirt40 Posted July 16, 2006 CID Share Posted July 16, 2006 Any slight speed difference for me doesnt compare up to the features firefox has over IE. (Pop-up blocker, just overall cleanliness) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kamil234 Posted July 16, 2006 CID Share Posted July 16, 2006 yup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beantown Posted July 16, 2006 Author CID Share Posted July 16, 2006 First of all thanks for the QUICK replies!!! Modern computer?? LOL Well if you consider a PIII running at 866MHz and 512 megs of ram a modern computer......LOL I do run a minimum of extentions in FF, image zoom, ad block plus, download status bar and IE view. I plan to update the mobo, processor and ram shortly but can't see where it's going to make a huge difference on my page loading. I agree that the pluses of FireFox far out weight the system EMBEDDED down sides of IE. I have not had a single issue with the typical browser hijackings and such that I consider plague IE. Again thanks for your help, and I'll give the tweaks a try. What an awesome website you have and I have to say that the download speed test are the most accurate on the internet by FAR!!! See ya, Shane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beantown Posted July 16, 2006 Author CID Share Posted July 16, 2006 This was after the afore mentioned tweak ::::::::::.. Download Stats ..:::::::::: Download Connection is:: 4889 Kbps about 4.89 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB) Download Speed is:: 597 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/07/16 - 6:29am Bottom Line:: 85X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.72 sec Tested from a 5983 kB file and took 10.025 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Looks Great : 2.09 % faster than the average for host (rr.com) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-QPUJYME36 User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4 This is with IE ::::::::::.. Download Stats ..:::::::::: Download Connection is:: 5035 Kbps about 5.04 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB) Download Speed is:: 615 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/07/16 - 6:33am Bottom Line:: 88X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.67 sec Tested from a 5983 kB file and took 9.734 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Looks Great : 5.14 % faster than the average for host (rr.com) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-J3US6ODH4 User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) And this is the best I have ever seen. ::::::::::.. Download Stats ..:::::::::: Connection is:: 6118 Kbps about 6.12 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 747 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/05/24 - 4:39pm Bottom Line:: 107X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.37 sec Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 4.006 seconds to complete Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3 Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 32.91 % faster than the average for host (rr.com) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-DRJGESPN8 Dam if I can only remember what Van Buren settings I had used I would go back to them. Crap should have left well enough alone!!! I know it's not bad but I have seen it do better. I have a sneaky suspiscion the computer geek in my nieghborhood is running a server. I'll confront the wanna be today to see if thats what he is doing Thanks again for the help! Shane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bribri135 Posted July 18, 2006 CID Share Posted July 18, 2006 As for kamil234-san's (yeah i've read some of naruto too) firefox tweaks... here are my results... before the tweak: :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 6141 Kbps about 6.14 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB) Download Speed is:: 750 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/07/18 - 4:28pm Bottom Line:: 107X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.37 sec Tested from a 5983 kB file and took 7.982 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Looks Great : 16.35 % faster than the average for host (comcast.net) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-WM0P9K1CD User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4 [!] After the Tweak: :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 5555 Kbps about 5.56 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB) Download Speed is:: 678 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 2) Test Time:: 2006/07/18 - 4:32pm Bottom Line:: 97X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.51 sec Tested from a 5983 kB file and took 8.823 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Looks Great : 5.25 % faster than the average for host (comcast.net) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-YC761ZPXK User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4 [!] I dunno if it works for you this is just me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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