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Hacks to speed up your web surfing

by Tris Hussey on December 28th, 2006

From ConnectedInternet comes a couple tweaks/hacks/tips to make your browsing faster.  This might be a tad geeky for most, and there is a plugin for Firefox that makes this tweak for you, but if you’re frustrated with slow page loads, these might help:

Firefox users:

  1. Open firefox
  2. type ‘about:config’ in the address bar
  3. Type ‘network’ in the filter bar
  4. Double click ‘network.http.pipelining’ and set it to ‘TRUE’
  5. Double click ‘pipelining.maxrequests’ and change to a higher value like ‘10′
  6. Close Firefox and your pages should now load faster

Internet Explorer users:

  1. Go to ‘Start/Run’ and type ‘regedit’
  2. Select ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER’
  3. Expand ‘Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Internet Settings’
  4. ‘MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server’ and ‘MaxConnectionsPerServer’ indicate the maximum no. of connections per page. Increase the values (DECIMAL) to a higher value, say ‘10′
  5. Close IE and your pages should now load faster

Now what this is really doing is just telling the browser to make more concurrent connections to a site when visiting.  More connections means faster loading.  It also means a little more load on that server.  I’ve done this on Firefox before and it did help a bit.  You can let me know if you think it really helps.

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4 opinions for Hacks to speed up your web surfing

  • Contract Worker - Hack Your Way to Faster Surfing
    Jan 3, 2007 at 3:05 am

    […] That’s it! And it really does work. Like Tris says, allowing your browser “to make more concurrent connections to a site” makes for faster surfing. Feeling left out IE users? Check out Tris’ post for more info. […]

  • Pimp Your Work - Really want to speed up your browsing? Switch to Maxthon.
    Jan 4, 2007 at 10:11 pm

    […] Yep, I’m liking Maxthon and not looking back.  It has a ton more features than I’ve talked about here, but really what’s going to count is speed and ease of switching.  While I am trying the beta, the latest stable release is great too (I have it installed as well).  Most of my IE plugins work with it.  Attensa kinda flips it out, but I’m not surprised. […]

  • badboy
    Oct 4, 2008 at 4:40 am

    Internet Explorer users:

    Go to ‘Start/Run’ and type ‘regedit’
    Select ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER’
    Expand ‘Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Internet Settings’
    ‘MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server’ and ‘MaxConnectionsPerServer’ indicate the maximum no. of connections per page. Increase the values (DECIMAL) to a higher value, say ‘10′
    Close IE and your pages should now load faster

    But ‘MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server’ and ‘MaxConnectionsPerServer’ not found in internet setting what i am doing

  • badboy
    Oct 4, 2008 at 4:49 am

    where is “‘MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server’ and ‘MaxConnectionsPerServer’ in internet setting plz help me u also send me e-mail plz

    real_badboy420@yahoo.co.in

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