Firefox tweaking
by Colin on Apr.14, 2008, under General
I really enjoy using Firefox. I have recently re-imaged my laptop after a hard drive upgrade. I use Firefox quite Heavily. I will frequently have one hundred of tabs open especially when I go through my reading materials for a week.
I noticed on both Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) that my firefox sessions would hang after I crossed a certain threashold. I have other browsers that I popped open to check to see if it was application or network specific. Epiphany IE and Safari all worked flawlessly so it had to be specific to Firefox.
my first reaction was to pop open about:config (more) and start poking around the network settings, network.http.max-connections and the like seemed to have no effect. Alas google remided me of the network.http.pipelining (more) it basically allows for multiple requests to be executed at once. This is especially important when using both Gmail and Google Reader and Digg which all utilize ajax calls in the background.
