Slower Firefox page loading on Ubuntu v. Windows

Frank McCormick fmccormick at videotron.ca
Tue Sep 27 13:32:19 UTC 2005


On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 13:29:05 -0400
Al Gordon <runlevel7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/24/05, Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca> wrote:
> > On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 16:13:14 +0100
> > Robbo <ml at the-view.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 14:18 -0400, Steve Zatz wrote:
> > > > I have two Windows XP machines and one Ubuntu (Hoary) machine on my
> > > > home network and in side by side comparisons, the loading of pages in
> > > > Firefox is 2-5x slower on Ubuntu v. the Windows' machines.  I have
> > >
> > > Also try these...
> > >
> > > Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:
> > > 1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down
> > > and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining
> > > network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
> > > Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When
> > > you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds
> > > up page loading. 2. Alter the entries as follows: Set
> > > "network.http.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining"
> > > to "true" Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like
> > > 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once. 3. Lastly right-click
> > > anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay"
> > > and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser
> > > waits before it acts on information it receives. If you're using a
> > > broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!
> > >
> > > Copied from http://forevergeek.com/open_source/make_firefox_faster.php
> >
> >
> >
> > Did all that here - no change. Firefox under XP is MUCH faster. I don't
> > understand it but here at least its true. Still looking for solutions.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Frank
> 
> Frank, does installing the following packages help?
> 
> nscd (name service caching daemon)
> squid (www proxy cache)
> 
> You also need to configure firefox to use squid as your cache - Edit,
> Preferences, General, Connection Settings, Manual Proxy Configuration,
> http proxy: localhost, port 3128.

Tried them...but saw no real speed increase. Ended up taking them back
out. 

Thanks for the suggestion.

Cheers

Frank




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