Up to now All the Network tweaks that I did have been completed and so Welcome to the phase two of Dhiraagu ADSL tweaking.
This tweak will mainly consist of WEbbrowser tweaks.We usually use Internet to surf webpages and to download cool softwares or movies.We download movies usually using torrent and some torrent tweaks are also needed for the torrents to download even faster. I will insha allah try to explain the bit torrent tweaks also.Okey here we go. First Of all make sure that you do not use internet explorer. If you still use it, GET RID OF IT. Well obiviously I am not telling to uninstall it since many apps (online apps) depend on IE. I want everyone to useFirefox web browser or Google Chrome web browser. Firefox 3 is the fastest and most security tight web browser but I would say Google chrome is the fastest now.Chrome web browser isnt good for downloading because downloads are way slow. but web pages loads extremely fast.And for firefox its the opposite. its downloading is fast while web browsing is slow.I would recommend to use both in combination for a high productivity.Chrome for surfing web and firefox to download from http direct links.
But if you dont want to use chrome , and want to make firefox web page load as fast as chrome, apply the following Seven (7) tweaks to your firefox profile.
1. Enable pipelining
Browsers are normally very polite, sending a request to a server then waiting for a response before continuing. Pipelining is a more aggressive technique that lets them send multiple requests before any responses are received, often reducing page download times.
* To enable it
* Type about:config in the address bar,
* Double-click network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining so their values are set to true
* Then double-click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set this to 8.
Keep in mind that some servers don't support pipelining, though, and if you regularly visit a lot of these then the tweak can actually reduce performance. Set network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining to false again if you have any problems.
2. Render quickly
Large, complex web pages can take a while to download. Firefox doesn't want to keep you waiting, so by default will display what it's received so far every 0.12 seconds (the "content notify interval"). While this helps the browser feel snappy, frequent redraws increase the total page load time, so a longer content notify interval will improve performance.
* Type about:config and press [Enter]
* Then right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) somewhere in the window and select New > Integer. Type content.notify.interval as your preference name, click OK, enter 500000 (that's five hundred thousand, not fifty thousand) and click OK again.
* Right-click again in the window and select New > Boolean. This time create a value called content.notify.ontimer and set it to True to finish the job.
3. Faster loading
If you haven't moved your mouse or touched the keyboard for 0.75 seconds (the content switch threshold) then Firefox enters a low frequency interrupt mode, which means its interface becomes less responsive but your page loads more quickly. Reducing the content switch threshold can improve performance, then, and it only takes a moment. * Type about:config and press [Enter],
* Then right-click in the window and select New > Integer. Type content.switch.threshold, click OK, enter 250000 (a quarter of a second) and click OK to finish.
4. No interruptions
You can take the last step even further by telling Firefox to ignore user interface events altogether until the current page has been downloaded. This is a little drastic as Firefox could remain unresponsive for quite some time, but try this and see how it works for you.
* Type about:config, press [Enter],
* Then right-click in the window and select New > Boolean. Type content.interrupt.parsing, click OK, set the value to False and click OK.
5. Block Flash
Intrusive Flash animations are everywhere, popping up over the content you actually want to read and slowing down your browsing. Fortunately there's a very easy solution. Install the Flashblock extension (flashblock.mozdev.org) and it'll block all Flash applets from loading, so web pages will display much more quickly. And if you discover some Flash content that isn't entirely useless, just click its placeholder to download and view the applet as normal.
6. Increase the cache size
As you browse the web so Firefox stores site images and scripts in a local memory cache, where they can be speedily retrieved if you revisit the same page. If you have plenty of RAM (2 GB of more), leave Firefox running all the time and regularly return to pages then you can improve performance by increasing this cache size.
* Type about:config and press [Enter],
* Then right-click anywhere in the window and select New > Integer.
* Type browser.cache.memory.capacity, click OK, enter 65536 and click OK, then restart your browser to get the new, larger cache.
7. Enable TraceMonkey
TraceMonkey is a new Firefox feature that converts slow Javascript into super-speedy x86 code, and so lets it run some functions anything up to 20 times faster than the current version. It's still buggy so isn't available in the regular Firefox download yet, but if you're willing to risk the odd crash or two then there's an easy way to try it out.
Install the latest nightly build (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/), launch it, type about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Type JIT in the filter box, then double-click javascript.options.jit.chrome and javascript.options.jit.content to change their values to true, and that's it - you're running the fastest Firefox Javascript engine ever.
[optional] Compress network traffic data if you want your bandwidth to go high slowly.
If you've a slow internet connection then it may feel like you'll never get Firefox to perform properly, but that's not necessarily true. Install toonel.net (toonel.net) and this clever Java applet will re-route your web traffic through its own server, compressing it at the same time, so there's much less to download.So the Internet usage will increase slowly. And it can even compress JPEGs by allowing you to reduce their quality. This all helps to cut your data transfer, useful if you're on a limited 1 GB-per-month account, and can at best double your browsing performance.
Thats it for this part. (Part 2). The next part will be( insha allah ) about Bit torrent tweaks.
Well you might think that whether I use toonel or not. Well I use it as to compress my traffic Data. The post is getting way too long so lets finish for this time.
[firefox] [chrome] [subscribe] [toonel][flash block][trace monkey]
[part I] [Part II] [Part III] [part IV]
This is the part I told that I will discuss about Bit torrent Tweaks. and my recommended bit torrent software. The next part will be insha Allah the last part of this series. It will be the speed I gained by applying these tweaks. Basically the results of all tweak that I did.
