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Boris Mohar

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http://www.drmadcow.net/Article.php?articleid=10

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Boris Mohar
 
On Wed, 25 May 2005 16:44:36 -0400, in sci.electronics.design Boris
Mohar <borism_-void-_@sympatico.ca> wrote:

http://www.drmadcow.net/Article.php?articleid=10
Impressive
Those Firefox people wrote software that the user can tweak?

nah, never catch on, Microsoft would have done it/patented it years
ago

martin

"Wales is a big welsh-shaped rain collection device"
 
On Wed, 25 May 2005 16:44:36 -0400, Boris Mohar
<borism_-void-_@sympatico.ca> wrote:

http://www.drmadcow.net/Article.php?articleid=10
Wow! loads pages much faster. Loads faster than Opera !
 
sdeyoreo@hotmail.com wrote:

On Wed, 25 May 2005 16:44:36 -0400, Boris Mohar
borism_-void-_@sympatico.ca> wrote:


http://www.drmadcow.net/Article.php?articleid=10


Wow! loads pages much faster. Loads faster than Opera !
I'm a die-had Mozilla user. But this is looking interesting. Thanks
for the info.

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Luhan Monat wrote:

sdeyoreo@hotmail.com wrote:

On Wed, 25 May 2005 16:44:36 -0400, Boris Mohar
borism_-void-_@sympatico.ca> wrote:


http://www.drmadcow.net/Article.php?articleid=10



Wow! loads pages much faster. Loads faster than Opera !


I'm a die-had Mozilla user. But this is looking interesting. Thanks
for the info.
Make that 'die-hard': Spell checkers will knot correct sin tax airs.

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indistinguishable from technology."
 
Boris Mohar wrote:
http://www.drmadcow.net/Article.php?articleid=10
aka https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=327

Tweak Network does this for you much more cleanly.
 
Boris Mohar <borism_-void-_@sympatico.ca> wrote:

http://www.drmadcow.net/Article.php?articleid=10

In summary, the recommended changes in about:config are:
1) "network.http.pipelining" should be true.
2) "network.http.proxy.pipelining" should be true.
3) change "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 30.
Now restart your browser.

I'm just trying these myself now, but could someone summarise the
potential *downsides* please? IOW, why are these not defaults, if they
deliver significantly better performance?

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"Bob Monsen" <rcsurname@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1JqdnSwpCLzI3QvfRVn-pg@comcast.com...
Terry Pinnell wrote:
Boris Mohar <borism_-void-_@sympatico.ca> wrote:


http://www.drmadcow.net/Article.php?articleid=10



In summary, the recommended changes in about:config are:
1) "network.http.pipelining" should be true.
2) "network.http.proxy.pipelining" should be true.
3) change "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 30.
Now restart your browser.

I'm just trying these myself now, but could someone summarise the
potential *downsides* please? IOW, why are these not defaults, if they
deliver significantly better performance?


The page says it'll be problematic on slow connections. It is possible
that web page designers set things up so that the text is downloaded
before the pictures, so if you are on a 56k modem, you'll see the text
first. Doing this will config change will mean that everything will be
requested simultaneously, so you may not see the text first. This will
make it seem slower, rather than faster. I'm guessing the firefox guys are
assuming more modem users than broadband users.

On fast connections, requesting everything in parallel is better.

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Regards,
Bob Monsen
On an ADSL connection the improvement is great!

Ken
 
martin griffith wrote:
On Wed, 25 May 2005 16:44:36 -0400, in sci.electronics.design Boris
Mohar <borism_-void-_@sympatico.ca> wrote:


http://www.drmadcow.net/Article.php?articleid=10

Impressive
Those Firefox people wrote software that the user can tweak?

nah, never catch on, Microsoft would have done it/patented it years
ago
You haven't heard about the Windows hack? Set BUGS=OFF in the registry.


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On Fri, 27 May 2005 09:43:06 +1200, "Ken Taylor" <ken123@xtra.co.nz>
wrote:

"Bob Monsen" <rcsurname@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1JqdnSwpCLzI3QvfRVn-pg@comcast.com...
Terry Pinnell wrote:
Boris Mohar <borism_-void-_@sympatico.ca> wrote:


http://www.drmadcow.net/Article.php?articleid=10



In summary, the recommended changes in about:config are:
1) "network.http.pipelining" should be true.
2) "network.http.proxy.pipelining" should be true.
3) change "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 30.
Now restart your browser.

I'm just trying these myself now, but could someone summarise the
potential *downsides* please? IOW, why are these not defaults, if they
deliver significantly better performance?


The page says it'll be problematic on slow connections. It is possible
that web page designers set things up so that the text is downloaded
before the pictures, so if you are on a 56k modem, you'll see the text
first. Doing this will config change will mean that everything will be
requested simultaneously, so you may not see the text first. This will
make it seem slower, rather than faster. I'm guessing the firefox guys are
assuming more modem users than broadband users.

On fast connections, requesting everything in parallel is better.

---
Regards,
Bob Monsen

On an ADSL connection the improvement is great!

Ken
It's much slower with my 28.8 modem.

Paul C
 
Terry Pinnell wrote:
I'm just trying these myself now, but could someone summarise the
potential *downsides* please? IOW, why are these not defaults, if they
deliver significantly better performance?
It's a balance of latency (specifically for the connection establishment
packets) vs bandwidth. HTTP keep-alive re-uses the same connection when
more than one request is made to a server, and pipelining allows the
subsequent requests to be sent before the first response has been
received. Beware though, because many proxies won't pipeline (though
most will now keep-alive). Speaking as someone who's implemented both.

Clifford Heath.
 
Correction. Connection establishment latency is the factor to
consider when tweaking the total number of parallel connections,
which is network.http.max-connections. I was thinking of the
request latency.
 
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On Wed, 25 May 2005 16:21:04 -0700, Luhan Monat <x@y.z> wrote:

Luhan Monat wrote:

sdeyoreo@hotmail.com wrote:

On Wed, 25 May 2005 16:44:36 -0400, Boris Mohar
borism_-void-_@sympatico.ca> wrote:


http://www.drmadcow.net/Article.php?articleid=10



Wow! loads pages much faster. Loads faster than Opera !


I'm a die-had Mozilla user. But this is looking interesting.
Thanks for the info.


Make that 'die-hard': Spell checkers will knot correct sin tax
airs.
Jest hat their hour two men he off them.


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