Speed Up Rendering in Firefox

[xpgeek]

Yea I get looking at the actual speed of the downloads can be misleading. I considered how long the download actualy takes to finish.

I used large files, 30 megs or more, so its not finished 1 second after I click save, and, for me at least, there definitly is a differance.

I conducted my little test with 2 differant files from 2 differant sites. A 40 meg demo from nvidia, and a 60 meg game demo from cnet downloads. First I downloaded the nvida demo with IPv6 disabled, it took about 3 minutes, then I set IPv6 beack to default and downloaded the exact same file again, and it took about 1 minute. I then did the same test again with the cnet game demo, first with IPv6 disabled, then again with it back at default, and again the download time was more then cut in half with it enabled.

I'm not saying this tweak will have the same effect for everyone, or that its a bad tweak, I'm just saying it definitly had this affect for me.

[Another_Paul]

Thank you (Y). Good tip.

[gigapixels Veteran]

Yea I get looking at the actual speed of the downloads can be misleading. I considered how long the download actualy takes to finish.

I used large files, 30 megs or more, so its not finished 1 second after I click save, and, for me at least, there definitly is a differance.

I conducted my little test with 2 differant files from 2 differant sites. A 40 meg demo from nvidia, and a 60 meg game demo from cnet downloads. First I downloaded the nvida demo with IPv6 disabled, it took about 3 minutes, then I set IPv6 beack to default and downloaded the exact same file again, and it took about 1 minute. I then did the same test again with the cnet game demo, first with IPv6 disabled, then again with it back at default, and again the download time was more then cut in half with it enabled.

I'm not saying this tweak will have the same effect for everyone, or that its a bad tweak, I'm just saying it definitly had this affect for me.

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Strange... It had the effect that I described on me, but nothing more. Oh well :/

[ryanmcv]

Wow, it definitely sped things up. :)

[mtness]

I conducted my little test with 2 differant files from 2 differant sites. A 40 meg demo from nvidia, and a 60 meg game demo from cnet downloads. First I downloaded the nvida demo with IPv6 disabled, it took about 3 minutes, then I set IPv6 beack to default and downloaded the exact same file again, and it took about 1 minute. I then did the same test again with the cnet game demo, first with IPv6 disabled, then again with it back at default, and again the download time was more then cut in half with it enabled.

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Beg your pardon, but try doing that same thing again, only do it with IPv6 enabled first, then again with it disabled.

Dollars to doughnuts the performance increase you saw was only related to it being the second download and there's a cache somewhere between the files on the server hard drive and your machine. After the first download the file was in the cache so the throughput was much faster the second time around.

[+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹]

It's too bad all these network tweaks are needed to make it really fast... You recommend it to your friends... But do you really want them to have to download the Moox builds, install the network tweak extension, have them disable IPv6 support, and make various other about:config tweaks just to get it to run fast?

I bet more than half of the regular Firefox users don't even know about these tweaks... Let alone all their n00b friends they recommend it to.

Come on lets make this stuff fast BY DEFAULT!!!!

jafo

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theres a reason thease things aren't enables by default.

for example, Pipelining can break some sites/servers...

[CJC]

Thanks for the tip :)

[Harsh!]

There's a great extension out, kind of new, Tweak Network Settings.

Works great for me!

Official Mozilla Link

Does this do the same thing?

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Thanks..

A great speed increase noticed and a good extension, even if it is unofficial