Opinion on this method of speeding FF up (pipelining)

[Alfred001]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqZpFeiIXlM

What do you folks think about this? Is this advisable, will it work? I'm reticent to screw around with things, so I thought I'd consult you guys.

[TheVisitor]

I say if they actually 'worked' Mozilla would have enabled them long ago. I really don't know why the pref is there, or why Mozilla never updated code to enable the pref to work. I recall that early on in Firefox's life there was lots a discussion in these forums as to merits/demerits of flipping those prefs.

Here is one such discussion http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=2138033

[Alfred001]

Thanks!

[James]

The network.http.pipelining.maxrequests was a preference that was hard coded at upper limit of 8 max and yet everybody was posting to set it to something like 30 or 100 to make Firefox 10x faster!!!.

Since the Firefox 14.0 Release the network.http.pipelining.maxrequests has actually been changed from default 4 to 32 (and not have a hard coded upper limit now).

The discussion of tweaking this or that Preference in trying to make Firefox faster has been around for a long time as this thread from Feb 2004 shows http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=53650