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- lickmygiggle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+159Best surefire way to speed up browsing: Block ads.
- darkzealot89, on 10/12/2007, -5/+137do you have fasterfox? that extension might have done that for you
- darkzealot89, on 10/12/2007, -3/+80Even better, Adblock PLUS
subscribes you to anti-ad feeds so 99% of ads are never seen. Also allows you to block Java and Flash ads too! - 350Zed, on 10/12/2007, -5/+74@Jader2toesbumpy
He said "Fasterfox", not "Firefox"... try and keep up with the thread. - sasgold, on 10/12/2007, -1/+64The max number of requests that firefox can pipeline at once is 8 so there is no reason to set the number above this. You can see for yourself at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -20/+78fasterfox != firefox
- PhantomBantam, on 10/12/2007, -10/+68Changing a setting is now considered a hack? Dude. I have a sweet hack. Double-click on an icon on your desktop, and if it's an application it will open up.. Yeah. Sweet hack, huh?
- fak3r, on 10/12/2007, -7/+62This is old as heck, and as someone who's played with Fasterfox, that does this for you, I can recommend against it. First of all it's rude to set the pipelining that fast, I've seen how it bangs on my Apache, then ff can't handle too many connections depending on file size on the remote server, so it can end up slowing you down, lastly, some websites will blacklist you if you hammer the site like that while surfing, I've had that, and the 'warning' msgs that tell you to turn off fasterfox if you want to access the site! wish I had the code to detect that, I"d like to put that into practice.
moral - defaults are default for a reason, feel free to experiment, but if you too far out on the branch, look out below. - hattrick35, on 10/12/2007, -7/+57@Jader2toesbumpy
In the words of the great Scott Evil, "You're an idiot." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -14/+60By increasing the amount of maximum connections you use, you're putting undue strain on webservers, and DECREASING the amount of users they can serve simultaneously.
Yes, it will speed up your connection a slight bit. But it's selfish. Don't use this. The internet will thank you. - Four20, on 10/12/2007, -2/+46Oddly enough in my FF the setting was already set to TRUE, and instead of my max connections being set to 4, like it said, it was set to 8.
I went ahead and put that to 10, and I do see a little improvement, especially when loading pages with lots of small images. - xenixninja, on 10/12/2007, -9/+48There is no reason to increase your request unless you want to end up hammering the site.
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -13/+52Why the hell is this a video? Lame 2 da maxx0r.
- intrktevo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36Fasterfox.. http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/ or https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1269/
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -15/+45Yes. Digg them down for describing how to do it on a browser that *isnt* firefox. Nice job, asshats.
- triblinator, on 10/12/2007, -5/+33got it! ok for anyone using Opera: type about:config into the adress bar. Then go to "preformance" and change max connections server from 8 to 10... honestly I have seen no difference. yet. But i didnt set the "network.http.pipelining" to true; Opera seems not to have such an option. Anyone know if there some synonymous term in the Opera settings?
- Smigge87, on 10/12/2007, -7/+33Afraid of tube blockage? Just send a powerball down it.
- chubbstar, on 10/12/2007, -12/+33is this even a hack? all yer doing is changing settings...
maybe its just me but changing settings in an open source program dosent really fit my definition of "hacking" - smith, on 10/12/2007, -8/+29So you have no frame of reference here, Jader2toesbumpy. You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know...
- camkerr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22yeah fasterfox does all the changes that the video showed, plus more.
- franksmith, on 10/12/2007, -6/+26No such setting available in IE 7
- dattaway, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Not to worry. The Apache webserver has a whole section of settings to limit the maximum number of connections and make others wait.
- xutopia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Every decent web server I know has options to limit concurrent connections from one source. If your server cannot handle it, set it up so it can. There is no excuse here.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I don't get why Metacafe makes videos of everything when in almost every instance, video is NOT the best way to get their message across.
- shadowsurfr1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14In Firefox, it's much easier to type in about:config and in the search box, type in "pipe". That would only bring up the 3 pipelining values, and nothing else. No more sorting through hundreds of "network" entries.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+25Am I the only one highly annoyed with the whole, "You'll be hurting other people's servers with this"? As if it's my responsibility to make sure your server is okay.
I mean, I have broadband, so I'm gonna set my stuff so that it utilizes my connection to the full potential.
It's not my job to look after your servers to make sure they're stable or up-to-date enough to handle it. We've been long outside of the era of 28.8 modems, for about 10 years now, and technology needs to be adjusted as such.
If your server can't handle the traffic... then here's a violin for ya. - covertbadger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Each additional simultaneous connection comes with a cost to the server. A tcp connection takes up resources, and if it's a naive server implementation that creates a thread per connection, then increasing the number of simultaneous connections per client makes a colossal difference to the resources needed by the server.
The HTTP RFC actually recommends the maximum connection rate per client should be 2.
I actually have my client set up for 10 connections - I know it isn't nice and I know why it isn't nice; I just don't care. - mpeters13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Digg.com has truly allowed me to master time travel. I've somehow traveled a year into the past.
- covertbadger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11ricksite is not right. Upping the number of simultaneous connections uses extra resources on the server (sockets and threads are not free). It has nothing to do with bandwidth usage.
- Easty, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Even better than that ^
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
Pretty much an extensive list. - nrgamble, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq#spell-abbreviate
- sjbdallas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9That MetaCafe site seems a little obnoxious to me. They show all kinds of stupid tweaks but in the form of videos. There are all kinds of apps that will record your screen but these guys are using handheld cameras over someone's shoulder. Kind of small-time in my opinion.
- Toloran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@ricksite
The reason it "Isn't nice" is that instead of a single connection trying to get a single thing at a time, you have multiple connections trying to get multiple things all for a single user. It increases the load on the server and can cause it to go down (which is in essence what causes the digg-effect).
Think of it this way: You try to play a game on your computer. Depending on your computer it may or may not slow down a bit. However, what would happen if you had two instances of the game running at the same time? The machine would probably slow down. What about four? Or five? Or more? Each instance of the game would bog your computer down even more until it eventually crashed from the load.
That is basically what you are doing: instead of running the single "game" (normal single connection) you are running multiple copies of the same "game" at once (multiple connections). So from the server's perspective you are treated as multiple users connected to the site instead of just one. So if the server can only handle 1,000 connections, if everyone used this method to improve load time, only 100 people could be connected at once (instead of the usual 1000). - CompIsMyRx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8If you use Linux, try Swiftfox. It is an optimized build of Firefox for each processor, so it starts faster and loads pages quicker (it comes with pipelining on by default).
- TheProfessional, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14These can actually be pretty harmful to web servers (creates too much of a load for ones that can't handle it) and it is generally considered 'not nice'.
- cderry, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I also didn't have it. Create a new d-word with the names:
MaxConnections Per1_0Server
MaxConnections PerServer
....and set them as a decimal to 10. - Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11"First of all it's rude to set the pipelining that fast, I've seen how it bangs on my Apache. . ."
HTTP Pipelining is a GOOD thing... for everyone.
"The pipelining of requests results in a dramatic improvement in page loading times, especially over high latency connections (such as satellite Internet connections).
Since it is usually possible to fit several HTTP requests in the same TCP packet, HTTP pipelining allows fewer TCP packets to be sent over the network, reducing network load."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_pipelining - triblinator, on 10/12/2007, -23/+30Will someone tell me how to do this for Opera? I wouldnt give up Opera even if FF was 5 tiems faster. Please, it seems like a great thing!
- kingace, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Calm down, guys. If he wants to call it FF, or FxF or Fxxx, does it really bother you that much?
- jrandyw, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11@FAK3R
Man, I wanted to flame you so bad...but then I set my fasterfox back to defaults, and what do you know, some of my slow loading pages are fixed. I only had problems with a few sites, so I wouldn't say disabling fasterfox made my browsing much faster, but it did fix the slow load problems I've had with certain sites. - JurneyAhed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Is there an AdBlock Plus equivalent for Opera? I know it's got similar functionality built-in, but it requires manually blocking each ad (from what I understand).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6OK...then let me rephrase it...why do people still submit annoying MEtacafe links to Digg when it is usually crap, or something far better explains with simply text?
It is getting fairly obvious that the Metacafe submissions getting to the front page all the time is not a coincidence anymore. A little gaming is going on. - EXreaction, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Adblock can block Flash ads as well(don't know about Java, I don't ever recall coming across a Java ad).
I tried Adblock plus once...it had so many sections removed by default I was removing a lot of things that were not ads. So I went back to Adblock and just add rules whenever I find a new one(it is really not that hard, most ads come from a few domains, so just block those entire domains) - inmatarian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7That's because it's frontloaded. 10 Connections at once from a single user will cause slower connections for 9 other users. Basically, this makes the Digg effect even more dramatic, since instead of a swarm of a million users all at once, it turns into 10 Million connections all at once.
- Vakon22, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8This hack is fairly old. It still works very well.
But an average to below average user could just install the "Fasterfox" plug-in. As intrktevo had pointed out already It makes these tweaks a lot easier without having to do about:config.
Enjoy :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Because the video producer gets paid $5 for every 1000 views, provided some conditions are met. To qualify, a video must reach 20000+ views and have a rating of 3 or better. This video poster has already made $139 thanks to Digg and a few other sites.
- DarkStalker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5When your favorite websites start going down because they can't handle the load and the extra resources required, here's a violin for ya.
- angelp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I was able to make the changes to Firefox on my Macbook just fine.
- Ulquoirra, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10You might have to restart for it to work
- Infideler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Ok, so I've been doing this with opera since 1997:
Goto Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Network > Max Connections to Server/Max Total Connections
It's the same as going through about:config > preferences
I have both maxed out at 128 on NYC CableVision Boost. -
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