Is the following legit and does it make Firefox faster?

[dextras13]

Is the following a scam or what: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXxT51vHNXE

It tells you to:
1.Open Firefox
2. Type About:config in search bar
3. Type network in filter
4. Find network.http.pipelining and double click
5. Find network.http.proxy.pipeling and double click
6. Find network.http.pipeling.maxrequests and double click
7. Type 500 and press enter
8. Exit Firefox
9. Reopen Firefox and it'll be faster

[teoli2003]

No, maxrequests is capped at 8 in the code of Firefox. So any value greater than 8 is considered as 8.

[trolly]

It works only if the server can handle it. Several can not which leads to a broken page.

[Guest]

http://hubpages.com/hub/Firefox-pipelin ... ur-browser

[dextras13]

Thanks Guest

[steviex]

Basically... Leave the preference as it is.... Defaults are chosen for a reason....

Guest, thanks for the article... Backs up what we have been saying all along. Thank you.

[VanillaMozilla]

No one believes us until this happens:
viewtopic.php?f=38&t=807255&p=4220115#p4220115 .

[James]

Is the following a scam or what: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXxT51vHNXE

It tells you to:
1.Open Firefox
2. Type About:config in search bar
3. Type network in filter
4. Find network.http.pipelining and double click
5. Find network.http.proxy.pipeling and double click
6. Find network.http.pipeling.maxrequests and double click
7. Type 500 and press enter
8. Exit Firefox
9. Reopen Firefox and it'll be faster

To prove the maxrequests is hard coded at 8 for upper limit no matter the higher number.

108 // some default values
109 //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
110
111 // hard upper limit on the number of requests that can be pipelined
112 #define NS_HTTP_MAX_PIPELINED_REQUESTS 8

This is for Firefox 3.0 http://mxr.mozilla.org/firefox/source/n ... Http.h#108
For Firefox 2.0 http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.8/sourc ... Http.h#108