Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Firefox 1.0 Speed-up Tweak!


Open Firefox ..type about:config in the address bar and press enter.

Type network.dns in the filter box at the top of the page, two results should remain.

Double click on network.dns.disableIPv6 to change its value to "True"

Restart Firefox. You should notice a speed increase, page to page.

Enjoy!

6 comments:

mmChronic said...

That seems t work a treat. I can't believe they enabled ip6 support by default!

hypersloth said...
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hypersloth said...

This is the fourth different way I've read to speed up firefox, and by now I'm thoroughly confused.

I noticed no change with the method I tried, and later read the comments here, and finally just changed it back... I hope it's back to the default settings, because I forget which method I used... regardless, if what the comments said was true, it speeds up some things, slows down others, could mess some things up, and that's why the defaults were set the way they were originally. Anyway, here are the other three methods

from here on metafilter: Speed up Firefoxfrom here on milkandcookies: Make Firefox Faster, and a comment saying this one is easier

Any clues?

mmChronic said...

This one is a different one to those others so is worth trying. You definitely don't need ip6 dns lookup as the interweb is still ip4.

As for whether the others work - I'm not sure. I'm sure Merg will cast some light on it for us though! ;)

mmChronic said...

I knew you could be relied on for the techy networky bits! ;)

hypersloth said...

Nice follow-up. I hate Bush, but to use a Texan analogy, "don't fix it if it ain't broke." I'm not even going to bother, because my sh*t is fast, yo.
I especially enjoyed the hand-wavey bit.