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Comment: Migrated to Confluence 5.3

NOTE: This page is now pretty out-of-date.  I've since switched browsers to Google Chrome, which doesn't need any particular tuning of its own.

 

Although I didn't think I'd have to, I actually ended up tweaking Mozilla's Firefox browser
a bit for speed. This page is intended to document that, as well as offer tips for
those who use other browsers.

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First, open your browser and enter "about:config" as the URL. This will access Firefox's
internal settings. Click through the "please be careful" warning, then simply change the following:

Enable HTTP Pipelining

I did some research as to why this isn't enabled by default and really couldn't find any good reasons.
Apache Traffic Server supports this, and I got a roughly 100% speed boost by enabling it.
I also dropped the folks at Mozilla a line and suggested they support this.

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Increase Connections

As it turns out, this first setting is artifically low on the presumption you'll be using a public proxy
on the Internet and that it's "bad etiquette" to send such a server too many connections.
Being that I'm not going to kick myself off my own proxy server, I went ahead and changed this. (wink)

The second setting just reflects what's already been configured in ATSallows for more connections per server, with the assumption ATS will process these in parallel.

Code Block
network.http.proxy.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy user_set integer 256
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server user_set integer 32 

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Speculative HTTP Parsing

This setting I've had no end of annoyance finding documentation for.  I believe it has to do with predictive HTTP parsing, and the default is pretty lowI found I got a considerable performance boost with ATS by disabling this feature.

Code Block
network.http.speculative-parallel-limit user_set integer 2560

 

That's it. Go ahead and restart your browser just to be safe, then enjoy your increased surfing speeds.

 

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