Improve firefox performance on 500 MHz system

[pratish ganguly]

Dear all

I have installed firefox-1.5 on a thinclient (with linux OS) with 128MB
flash memory and 128 MB RAM. The performance what I am getting is very bad
as compared to a normal linux system. I even tried with a 256MB RAM but
still the performance is very bad. The firefox that I am using is having the
default configuration. The plugins that are installed are flash plugin and
pdf using mozplugger. Any suggestion to improve the performance, specially
flash performance ?
>From somewhere I came to know that the foloowing preferences can boost the
performance , but it is not working.

"content.max.tokenizing.time", 3000000
"content.notify.backoffcount", 5
"content.notify.interval", 1000000
"content.notify.ontimer", true
"content.switch.threshold", 1000000
"content.maxtextrun", 4095
"nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 1000
"network.http.max-connections", 48
"network.http.max-connections-per-server ", 16
"network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16
"network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8
"dom.disable_window_status_change", true

Any suggestions ?

With best regards
Pratish

[Ron K.]

pratish ganguly keyboarded, On 12/8/2007 6:59 AM :

I was running Fx on a Celeron Slot1 @400MHz / 256MB RAM / HDD 3.1GB
PIO-5 under Windows ME using the Fx stock factory settings. Fx was
sluggish only when I forced it to use the Flash plugin during browsing.
HDD performance with a browser is more important than with applications
not needing heavy cache access, so my PIO-5 rated drive was a big
performance hit. Another drag on performance is the video processor
where an AGP-2 performance level will be sluggish compared to more
modern chip sets.

Remember that older systems have the slower USB-1, so I would not want
Fx to be trying to run off a flash drive, even if the Fx was a build
designed to be flash drive compatable.

--
Ron K.
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[Alan Baxter]

"pratish ganguly" <pratish...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Any suggestions ?

"Performance boosting" preference changes can make things worse. I
suggest sticking with the default performance prefs.

I'm running Fx 2.0.0.11 on Windows 98SE using the default Fx settings.
My PC has 64MB RAM and a 450MHz AMD K6 processor. Only extensions are
NoScript and Adblock Plus. Performance is adequate as long as I don't
allow any Flash to run.
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