Just a quick update here to an earlier post on TBSM v4.2 performance, scalability and user experience. I’ve spent a lot of time the past week or so focusing in on Firefox. Here are a couple things for you to consider, test out and let me know how they may improve your overall TBSM user experience using this browser.
type about:config in your FF browser URL and hit enter.
Accept the warnings.
Search for “pipelining”
Edit the following:
network.http.pipelining True
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 8
network.http.proxy.pipelining True
Another area that I came across via troubleshooting a FF issue I was having was to launch FF using a new profile rather than the one I use normally. The profile for FF contains all of your browser history, extensions and plugins, cookies, certificates, etc. I found that launching FF with a fresh profile fixed my problem and yielded snappier performance and fewer “ghosts and gremlins”. I think at this point I’m going to have an everyday profile for FF since it’s my normal browser and a plain one for use with TBSM.
Review this Mozilla technote on Managing Firefox Profiles.
At this point, I’m getting acceptable performance and a decent user experience using FF 3.0.11 and Sun JRE 1.6.0.14. I look forward to testing out FF 3.5 with TBSM. It’s blazing fast in normal web use!