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Make firefox even faster! by .Roy on 03-26-2005 at 10:43 PM
Well i remember posting this before. But many people probobly dont remember this, and it might help a lot of you!
Anyway this simple patch will tweak firefox and make it go much faster!
Its as my attachment
edit: Please post ur comments
tutorial in my site http://www.hobbes.weirdfish.net (might want to download it from there so you will save some of msghelp's bandwith 
)
RE: Make firefox even faster! by Joa on 03-26-2005 at 10:44 PM
so what does this patch do exactly? (other than the obvious stated above)
what does it change etc.?
RE: Make firefox even faster! by .Roy on 03-26-2005 at 10:46 PM
I am not exactly sure. But it works for sure. Its a noticable difference
RE: Make firefox even faster! by albert on 03-26-2005 at 10:46 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Joa
so what does this patch do exactly? (other than the obvious stated above)
what does it change etc.?
exactly what i was about to post...!
Why do I feel there's a risk of fucking up my pc..??
RE: Make firefox even faster! by Joa on 03-26-2005 at 10:47 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Hobbes
I am not exactly sure. But it works for sure. Its a noticable difference
lol
ok thanks i'll try it and see
Edit:
quote:true
Originally posted by lp15
Why do I feel there's a risk of fucking up my pc..??
, but i'm sure it's safe. and if anything it wouldnt be Hobbes fault. seems to have worked for him. 
* Joa waits a bit longer for comments
RE: Make firefox even faster! by L. Coyote on 03-26-2005 at 10:47 PM
There's an extension called Network Tweak. No need for a patch, which you don't know what it does. 
RE: Make firefox even faster! by .Roy on 03-26-2005 at 10:50 PM
Here is the previous thread about it
http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=35...d=342418#pid342418
RE: Make firefox even faster! by albert on 03-26-2005 at 10:55 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Hobbes
Here is the previous thread about it
http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=35...d=342418#pid342418
thx hobbes ill check it out.. and as Joa said if anything goes wrong its ur fault..
RE: Make firefox even faster! by .Roy on 03-26-2005 at 10:56 PM
Omg guys. I am trustable Trust me. It works read the old thread. Even LEE says it.. And he is really trusted. I think 
RE: Make firefox even faster! by WDZ on 03-26-2005 at 10:59 PM
quote:But you didn't make that exe, did you?
Originally posted by Hobbes
I am trustable
It might be dangerous and you're too much of a newbie to know it.
RE: Make firefox even faster! by albert on 03-26-2005 at 11:00 PM
lol ahh.. its not about u guys being trust worthy or not.. its oly that have a notebook was my fantasy since I was 8.. and now that i finally got it I donntt wannaa risk nething
but I trust u Hobbes.. ( just not when it comes to this )
RE: Make firefox even faster! by .Roy on 03-26-2005 at 11:00 PM
if u are all scared. do u want me to upload the zip instead. I just thought the exe would be better.. Sigh. Ive used this for 3 months
RE: Make firefox even faster! by M73A on 03-26-2005 at 11:02 PM
OMG IN THAT OTHER THREAD:
IT REALLY WORKS!!! type about:config in the address bar and change them things to as it is shown. im really quite surprised at how much faster it is
THANKS!!
RE: Make firefox even faster! by albert on 03-26-2005 at 11:03 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Hobbes
if u are all scared. do u want me to upload the zip instead. I just thought the exe would be better.. Sigh. Ive used this for 3 months
lol nah its ok bro, i got it
thx! let's see if it works now..
RE: Make firefox even faster! by Joa on 03-26-2005 at 11:04 PM
quote:
Originally posted by lp15
hx hobbes ill check it out.. and as Joa said if anything goes wrong its ur fault..
LOL i said it wouldn't be he's fault
* Joa tries it
RE: Make firefox even faster! by .Roy on 03-26-2005 at 11:04 PM
forgot to mention to reconnect to firefox to see results. Its like a before and after lol
RE: Make firefox even faster! by blackjack on 03-26-2005 at 11:06 PM
For the 56kers
user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);
user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 3000000);
user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 8191);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 32);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 8);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 4);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);
RE: Make firefox even faster! by albert on 03-26-2005 at 11:08 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Joa
LOL i said it wouldn't be he's fault
Your letting me down now ? 
BUT it workS!! I dont get why or how, but it works, thx man, nice stuff
RE: Make firefox even faster! by .Roy on 03-26-2005 at 11:11 PM
quote:I hate to say this.. but after all this doughting i have to
Originally posted by lp15
quote:
Originally posted by Joa
LOL i said it wouldn't be he's fault
BUT it workS!! I dont get why or how, but it works, thx man, nice stuff
I TOLD U SO!
edit: What about u Joa
RE: Make firefox even faster! by blackjack on 03-26-2005 at 11:15 PM
Actually this work nice post Hobbes and i post some stuff for the 56kers that works good so dont say if that is dangerous or something.. just aphew changes on settings thats all nothing bad will happen
RE: Make firefox even faster! by Joa on 03-26-2005 at 11:26 PM
quote:
Originally posted by lp15
Your letting me down now ?
quote:
Originally posted by Hobbes
edit: What about u Joa
it works, thanks hobbes
RE: Make firefox even faster! by .Roy on 03-26-2005 at 11:39 PM
Great.. I have to go to sleep now its 1:40 am... Anyways
If you are noobish i added a tutorial about how to install it...
Link in first post
RE: Make firefox even faster! by Odium696 on 03-27-2005 at 04:11 AM
I instaled it, and it truly makes it faster....
Anyone knows what this patch do?
What it changes that makes the browser go faster?
RE: Make firefox even faster! by -dt- on 03-27-2005 at 04:27 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Odium696
I instaled it, and it truly makes it faster....
Anyone knows what this patch do?
What it changes that makes the browser go faster?
it justs ups the max connections per server , max persistant connections , probley turns on pipelining and sets the page rendering the start as soon as it has data
also heres a url to the mozillazine forums which tells you all the stuff that makes your browser go fast in about:config http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=53650
RE: Make firefox even faster! by ddunk on 03-27-2005 at 04:28 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Odium696
I instaled it, and it truly makes it faster....
Anyone knows what this patch do?
What it changes that makes the browser go faster?
quote:
Originally posted by may73alliance
OMG IN THAT OTHER THREAD:
IT REALLY WORKS!!! type about:config in the address bar and change them things to as it is shown. im really quite surprised at how much faster it is
THANKS!!
It just does what's in that screenshot
RE: Make firefox even faster! by Odium696 on 03-27-2005 at 04:37 AM
ok, thx.
Now I see
RE: Make firefox even faster! by .Roy on 03-27-2005 at 07:22 AM
quote:No it doesnt. Last time i patched it i typed about:config and nothing happended to the about:config
Originally posted by Ddunk
quote:
Originally posted by Odium696
I instaled it, and it truly makes it faster....
Anyone knows what this patch do?
What it changes that makes the browser go faster?
quote:
Originally posted by may73alliance
OMG IN THAT OTHER THREAD:
IT REALLY WORKS!!! type about:config in the address bar and change them things to as it is shown. im really quite surprised at how much faster it is
THANKS!!
It just does what's in that screenshot
RE: RE: Make firefox even faster! by segosa on 03-27-2005 at 07:45 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Hobbes
quote:No it doesnt. Last time i patched it i typed about:config and nothing happended to the about:config
Originally posted by Ddunk
quote:
Originally posted by Odium696
I instaled it, and it truly makes it faster....
Anyone knows what this patch do?
What it changes that makes the browser go faster?
quote:
Originally posted by may73alliance
OMG IN THAT OTHER THREAD:
IT REALLY WORKS!!! type about:config in the address bar and change them things to as it is shown. im really quite surprised at how much faster it is
THANKS!!
It just does what's in that screenshot
Maybe because you have no idea what you're talking about?
The patch is coded in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0.
After disassembling, you can see here it concatenates "defaults\\profile\\user.js" onto the Firefox dir:
code:Interesting string reference:
00409C79 . 68 3C904000 PUSH Firefox_.0040903C ; UNICODE "defaults\\profile\\user.js"
00409C7E . FF15 30104000 CALL DWORD PTR DS:[<&MSVBVM60.__vbaStrCa>; MSVBVM60.__vbaStrCat
code:Anyway, all the patch does is create the file:
Text strings referenced in Firefox_:.text, item 513
Address=0040A113
Disassembly=MOV DWORD PTR SS:[EBP-64],Firefox_.00409398
Text string=UNICODE "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\defaults\\profile\\user.js"
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile\user.js
Shall we take a guess at what it writes to the file?
From the disassembly we can see
code:
00407785 . 2F 2F 20 45 6E>ASCII "// Enable pipeli"
00407795 . 6E 69 6E 67 3A>ASCII "ning:
user_pref"
004077A5 . 28 22 6E 65 74>ASCII "("network.http.p"
004077B5 . 69 70 65 6C 69>ASCII "ipelining", true"
004077C5 . 29 3B 0D 0A 75>ASCII ");
user_pref("n"
004077D5 . 65 74 77 6F 72>ASCII "etwork.http.prox"
004077E5 . 79 2E 70 69 70>ASCII "y.pipe lining", "
004077F5 . 74 72 75 65 29>ASCII "true);
user_pre"
00407805 . 66 28 22 6E 65>ASCII "f("network.http."
00407815 . 70 69 70 65 6C>ASCII "pipelining.maxre"
00407825 . 71 75 65 73 74>ASCII "quests", 100)
",0
Which is
// Enable pipelining:
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipe lining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 100)
* segosa coughs
If the file already exists, then it assumes that it's already patched and allows you to unpatch, which simply deletes the file. We can see this here:
Correction. When the patch patches, it creates an empty directory at
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\
named "i386".
If this exists when the patch's exe is run, it knows firefox has been previously patched, and will allow you to unpatch, deleting the user.js file and i386 directory.
You can see this here:
code:
0040A0E7 . 68 BC904000 PUSH Firefox_.004090BC ; UNICODE "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\i386"
[...]
0040A113 . C745 9C 989340>MOV DWORD PTR SS:[EBP-64],Firefox_.00409>; UNICODE "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\defaults\\profile\\user.js"
0040A11A . C745 94 080000>MOV DWORD PTR SS:[EBP-6C],8
0040A121 . FFD6 CALL ESI ; <&MSVBVM60.__vbaVarDup>
0040A123 . 8D55 D4 LEA EDX,DWORD PTR SS:[EBP-2C]
0040A126 . 52 PUSH EDX
0040A127 . FF15 78104000 CALL DWORD PTR DS:[<&MSVBVM60.#529>] ; MSVBVM60.rtcKillFiles
[...]
0040A14E . C745 9C 549540>MOV DWORD PTR SS:[EBP-64],Firefox_.00409>; UNICODE "Tweak Removed. Thankyou for trying out the patch."
EDIT: Also, applying these tweaks makes your browser non-rfc compliant and may get you banned from some servers which monitor the amount of connections a single IP makes.
RE: Make firefox even faster! by .Roy on 03-27-2005 at 08:15 AM
Hmm. Ok thanks for the reply Segosa. Sorry for not knowing anything. Ill look into what i post now Sorry
Anyway.. After all it does change the speed, without having to do much... It gets the job done.
RE: Make firefox even faster! by segosa on 03-27-2005 at 08:17 AM
* segosa feels bad now.
RE: Make firefox even faster! by Mike on 03-27-2005 at 08:49 AM
So, this patch is useless for me that I have Firefox installed on drive E: eh?
RE: Make firefox even faster! by .Roy on 03-27-2005 at 08:54 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Mike2
So, this patch is useless for me that I have Firefox installed on drive E: eh?
That must suck eh? I think u can reshack the program and change the directory. But i wouldnt know
RE: Make firefox even faster! by segosa on 03-27-2005 at 08:59 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Mike2
So, this patch is useless for me that I have Firefox installed on drive E: eh?
It tries to find the directory dynamically at run-time I think. View my previous post and you can see it's concatenated at run-time.
RE: Make firefox even faster! by Zephyr on 03-27-2005 at 12:44 PM
I just did what Matty posted in the other thread by changing the values manually in about:config and it really does make firefox so much faster.
RE: Make firefox even faster! by .Roy on 03-27-2005 at 12:53 PM
yep.. But u can save time and just use the tweak i put up 
It does like the same thing
RE: Make firefox even faster! by segosa on 03-27-2005 at 03:31 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Hobbes
yep.. But u can save time and just use the tweak i put up
Yeah, but everyone hates your patch.
RE: Make firefox even faster! by segosa on 03-27-2005 at 04:20 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Hobbes
quote:
Originally posted by Segosa
quote:
Originally posted by Hobbes
yep.. But u can save time and just use the tweak i put up
Yeah, but everyone hates your patch.
Fine then. Your just a big meanie.
Everyone dont use the patch.. Its just a big shitload of crap.
Thanks segosa. Last time ill make a thread to help people
That '
' was meant to be a hint 
.
RE: Make firefox even faster! by Naruto on 04-01-2005 at 03:40 PM
yea i really like it it really works! dont worry baout anyting. it doesnt contain viruses or anything like d at