VG11489 Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 Great tweak runs faster thx VG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turn It Down Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 :) very nice, thanks for the tip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jafoman Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 Makes you wonder why on earth would they enable IPv6 support by default when only researchers in small labs are using IPv6... jafo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code.Red Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 IPv4 and v6 are internet protocols... how the data is transferred... v4 is the standard now and v6 is slowly being implemented around the world... it wont come into full swing until 2008-2010 sadly... it's a huge infrastructure change, but the benefits will be great. 584927386[/snapback] Thanks for explaining, just tried this little tweak, and i do notice a difference! :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D0401 Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 im noticing a slight change in speed... does the fact that i changed some of the pipeline settings matter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpgeek Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 ok tried it, wasnt expecting that much of a differance, but wow, nice tweak ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curme Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernova_00 Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 ^^ Not official mozilla software...your link description is mis-leading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insanekiwi Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 i'll try this now. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poyzinus Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 very cool! tried it and holy batman! its faster! its surfing @ 5mb speeds with a 3mb connection!!! :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julius Caro Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 I think it's (way) faster now! Go Ubuntu!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emon Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 wow .. awesome tweak ! ..thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jafoman Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hifigecko Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 Great post! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvbfan Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 Wow worked great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etiwanda Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 Nice find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaurav Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 Holy cobweb ****! This thing rocks! What the heck....dial up looks no less than braodband! :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techno_Funky Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 amazing tweak there found a good boost in performance :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 Nice find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsleezy Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 OMG THATS AWESOME, Thanks man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceDogg Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 I agree this does makes a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggrophobik Posted November 18, 2004 Share Posted November 18, 2004 I'm a fairly new user to Firefox, But after reading some of the posts here, this one included, it seems to make the "conversion" seamless. Great browser, and very fast. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stockwiz Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 Simply an amazing tweak... bar none the best tweak I have applied to firefox period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpgeek Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 I have discovered a problem with this tweak, and set it back to default. When downloading files, I thought my download speeds were kind of slow, start slow, and just get slower as they go. Had an idea, set this tweaked setting back to default, and downloaded the exact same file from the exact same place, and my download speed was 6 times faster. Same file downloaded with IPv6 disabled, and then again not 1 minute later with it back on, definitly a differance. Might slightly speed up page loading, but slowed down my downloading of files in Firefox quite alot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigapixels Veteran Posted November 24, 2004 Veteran Share Posted November 24, 2004 I have discovered a problem with this tweak, and set it back to default.When downloading files, I thought my download speeds were kind of slow, start slow, and just get slower as they go. Had an idea, set this tweaked setting back to default, and downloaded the exact same file from the exact same place, and my download speed was 6 times faster. Same file downloaded with IPv6 disabled, and then again not 1 minute later with it back on, definitly a differance. Might slightly speed up page loading, but slowed down my downloading of files in Firefox quite alot. 584977079[/snapback] Actually, you're wrong. When you go to download something in Firefox, it starts downloading before you actually choose a location to download from. The download speed that you see is an average of how much you've downloaded over the time it has taken. So if it has already downloaded quite a bit while you chose the location to save to, there will be a huge download speed reported (let's say you have already gotten 300k of it downloaded and it just started showing the progress: 300k/sec). So as it finishes downloading, the speed it shows gets closer and closer to the actual speed. The speed you start with is a lot faster than it actually is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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