Here’s a video of some tweaks you can do to increase your browsing speed. I tried it in FireFox and noticed a nice speed boost. Let me know if it works for you.
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I think it is a waste of time.
Had to consult the video a couple of times, but I finally got it. John the wonderworker -- thanks, man! :grin:
Seen something similar to this before, did make a slight difference in the end.
Thanks John!
Wow, this is great. I am surprised they don't have this as a standard option like Fast Mode and Dial-up mode.
Thanks
Adam
A faster fox plugin? hmm where does one get this?
Get the Faster Fox plugin. All of those steps were all ready done!
Def. notice the extra speed. And I need it most for this blog! It's so slow to load with 80+ comments.
In IE, changing MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server and MaxConnectionsPerServer will also let you download more than one file at once.
Keep in mind as well, that your registry probably won't have these values in them.
I posted the reg file on my blog if you are interested.
http://www.jaygeiger.com/index.php/2007/04/02/fast...
Odds are that John Chow fans prefer IE7 but there it is anyway ;)
Nice video john! :mrgreen:
This is old news but it always works. Bravo.
- S
OMG great tip! thanks, now if there was a video that could make my powerbook and safari faster
there is, on youtube
Yep can't find the registry entry using IE7, done a quick scan too and it's not there. Thought it was gonna be a good tweak for my 56k pipe :shock:
Thanks for the tip :)
For Firefox : Instead of tweaking it manually download and install Fasterfox.
In General : If you want fast browsing use the fastest browser - Opera. See this comparison of browser speeds.
Also, one service that I had found very helpfull is OpenDNS. It reduces the time taken to resolve the domain name, thus reducing page load time.
If you are on dialup and need to drastically increase speed, use Onspeed. It compresses data to increase loading speed (about 300% faster).
"download and install Fasterfox."
Why bother doing that? There's nothing wrong with doing it manually. That just sounds cumbersome.
If you want to do it manually, ideally you should apply all these tweaks.
Actually Fasterfox does more than those mentioned in the above website.
Sounds like a technology AOL would be interested in :p
Saw this video on Metacafe 4 month ago now its on YouTube. The video made it to as well.
is it allowed to do that?
BTW, I failed to mention in my previous comment that it does indeed speed up the page load time on FireFox. I haven't tried it out on IE yet, though. But seemingly good on FireFox.
hm doesnt seem to make that much of a difference for me
simple tips, but they work great. it makes a difference.
As everybody can guess, this trick simply make you browser faster by doing more requests at the same time:
example: for this page you can make a request for the html thing, one for the css, one for each picture you see, etc.. If you can do only 4 connection at a time and you have 200 images, you can easily understand that you'll have to wait that the first 4 download finish before starting the remaining 198. In a perfect world, it would be better to have 200 connection so you can "parallelize" all. On our world you there are more problems.
- The Server: if everyone is doing it, we'll have to queue up before seeing a page, just like you queue with ftp transfer. A server cannot handle thousand of people doing 200 connection at the same time.It's better to load html first and maybe wait to see all the images on the page.
- The client: this shouldn't have big problems, but you are creating useless peak on your traffic just to see a page a split second before.
I think no one should modify that number, at least not so freely.
This should be some kind of kindness problem maybe.
If you like my comment go to visit my blog. If you don't like it go to my blog and insult me.
:mrgreen:
Well forget my comment and go to read my blogpost:
That's some really weird visit baiting...
lol I did some research and I didn't wanted to post it (only) here. Read it
:)
You really nailed it down!
I wouldn't post this on a high-traffic blog for that exact same reason.
Now all of John's readers will queue up before the page loads :)
- S
Thanks for the tips, I'll definitely give it a try.
And Dave pulls even. Will he take the lead?
Sweet. Nice tip. :wink:
I haven't noticed any difference using the Firefox tip :/
it'll make a difference on pages with a lot of images or javascripts.
like dany said.. diff on pages with images
For those who want to increase their surfing/browing speed on their mobile device browsers like minimo, opera, netfront or even the built in web browser for Windows Mobile or Nokia S60 devices may want to try this:
http://thinkabdul.com/2006/08/23/surf-faster-incre...
Please do let us know if it works for you.
Oh man, definitely faster! HURRAY! Thanks, John!
Great tips for Firefox. Definitely noticed a difference.
FT
I've noticed a decent difference too. It is well appreciated.
yep! It has a bit diff!
Firefox did get faster, but I couldn't find those Registry keys for IE. Maybe they are for IE 6 only?
I didn't notice anything actually :/
Hehe, sounds familiar... ;) Didn't I send you that vid? heh
That might not be the only way it sounds familiar. I made the same exact post yesterday here. Hey John ... how about a credit link? :!:
I was thinking about this the other day actually, since I am still fairly new to blogging. It's probably courteous to site your original source.
That being said, John may have found it elsewhere :)
That is true, it could just be a curious coincidence.
It is an interesting thing to discuss though (I'm pretty new to the blogging game myself). With so many blogs around, it's pretty easy to be "inspired" by another blogger's post ... but yes, I think a link to the original source is the best way to spread the word, but still be true to the original poster.
Well, there's absolutely no way to know where he originally came across it; the web is quite vast. Nonetheless, I do strongly believe in giving credit where credit is due and I'm pretty sure (hopefully) John stands by that as well.
Though I have come across a handful people/blogs lately that mention "lack of credit" issues with him, so I kinda have to wonder. And while the application of Occam's razor says one thing, I'm for now giving the benefit of the doubt. Either way, I there's definitely a lesson to be learned.
Yep. You sent it to me. :)
Yep ... after he saw it on my site ... as you can see by the comment he left on my post (linked above).
It does get complicated when people send stuff around without sources, doesn't it?
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