Tweak - Speed up Firefox and IE on Vista

I read this somewhere a few days back. Worked for me....

Flamenko u can try this and put it in ur tweaks if it works for u...

Speeding up Internet Explorer

Microsoft has made sure that Internet Explorer follows Internet standards by allowing you and your browser to download only two files at a time from any server. If you visit a web page with a lot of images and required files, such as CSS styles and JavaScript, you can easily end up with a scenario where your web browser has to make more than 40 requests to the web server to download all the files and then assemble the web page. Requesting only two of these 40 files at a time is going to be a lot slower than downloading, say, 10 of them at a time.

By tweaking hidden registry values, you can direct Internet Explorer to break Internet standards and download more than just two files at a time. Modifying this setting is simple to do, but be careful; the standards police will be after you. Follow these steps to speed up IE:

1. Click the Start button, type regedit in the Search box, and then press Enter.
2. After Registry Editor loads, navigate through HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings.
3. Right-click in an open space and create a new DWORD key
4. Type MaxConnectionsPerServer as the name of the new DWORD key.
5. Right-click this key and select Modify.
6. Set the base to Decimal and enter a value greater than 2I like to use 15 as my value here. Press OK when you are done.
7. Create a new DWORD key and type MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server as the name.
8. Right-click this key and select Modify.
9. Set the base to Decimal and enter the new value. Use the same value as used in step 6. Click OK when you are finished.
10. Exit Registry Editor and reboot your computer.

After your computer has rebooted, your new Internet Explorer settings are active. If you ever feel like undoing this tweak, just go back into the Registry and delete the MaxConnectionsPerServer and MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server keys that you created and reboot. Congratulations, you are now speeding on the information superhighway

Speeding up Firefox

Firefox suffers from the same limitation on file downloads imposed on it as Internet Explorer by Internet standards. Thankfully, there is an easy way to modify the number of simultaneous downloads in Firefox as well. Additionally, you can do a few other things to speed up Firefox, such as reducing delays and enabling parallel downloads (which Firefox calls pipelining). Instead of editing the registry, you can use a cool hidden feature in Firefox to hack the raw configuration settings built right into the browser. Follow these steps to speed up browsing with Firefox:

1. Open a copy of Firefox if you do not already have it open.
2. Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter.
3. Scroll down the list and locate network.http.max-connections-per-server
4. Right-click this setting and select Modify. Enter a higher value, such as 15, and press OK.
5. Enable parallel downloads, which is known as pipelining in Firefox. Scroll further down the list and locate network.http.pipelining.
6. Right-click this setting and select Toggle.
7. Scroll down and modify network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. Set this to a value of at least 15 and press OK.

Tip: If you use a proxy server to connect to the Internet, you will also want to toggle network .http.proxy.pipelining.

8. Let's reduce the paint delays in Firefox. But be careful with this one; according to the Mozilla Foundation, if you have a slower machine, this tweak can actually slow down Firefox. Right-click anywhere on the configuration screen and select New and then Integer.
9. Enter nglayout.initialpaint.delay in the name box and then 0 in the value boxes that pop up.
10. Close and restart Firefox to activate your new optimized settings.

EDIT : Mods....can u pls move this to Windows section ? thanx

 

the best tweak for ie and firefox in vista is xp. all things equal, a machine running xp will waste the same computer with vista- in ie or firefox.

 

This should be applicable to XP as well !!

 

Now when you say "watch out for the standard police", what exactly do you mean...

Will this mess up anything else on your computer?

 

No....It hasn't messed up anything on my notebook till now.....I feel my both apps work faster than before....

 

Forget that, you should see how fast my Core 2 Duo runs FF in Windows 98 SE!

 

hahaha... sweet. sometimes, often, i wish i could just go back to DOS. sweet DOS.

 

I'd instead use Fasterfox to do that and more automatically, without screwing around with the config interface

Get the Firefox plugin: http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/

 

I just tried that and it wouldn't install to 2.0.0.7. Sez it's only good for versions 1-1.5

Edit: Here's the link that works for 2.0.0.*

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269

 

I tried it out, and it does speed up IE. The only downside is, when you start creating tabs, then the tabbed page goes slower than normal, but the first page retains in fast speed.

 

Good it worked for u......
Now try this microsoft update which should increase performance while opening new tabs

 

update doesn't apply to my system?

 

I don't think update is required....applying the should make it fast enough...!!

 

Watch out, though, some servers disable multiple pipelining by default to save on bandwidth--those sites could load oddly.

Fortunately, I have yet to have stumbled upon any sites that disables pipelining, heh .

But... If you want truly blazing fast surfing experience with the best security, Opera is the way to go. It IS undoubtedly faster than Firefox, even with pipelining tweak enabled in Firefox.

CORRECTION: It's HKEY_CURRENT_ CONFIG, not USER .

EDIT: By the way, you DO NOT need to reboot your system for either tweaks! For IE, simply restart the browser. For Firefox, the config changes will automatically be applied in real-time!

 

I installed Fasterfox the other day and had what's now marginal improvement, set on courteous. Still tweaking, I disabled a few start-up entries using Spybot tools and now everything seems to be running faster.

igfxpers.exe Intel

WMPNSCFG.exe WMP

igfxtray.exe Intel

ehtray.exe Media Center

Check it out and tell me if I'm imagining things.

 

In Opera the similar tweaks are available more transparently in the options itself....

 

Or you can download the fasterfox addon for firefox which looks like it tweaks all the necessary settings