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Enabling http pipelining?

Recently I was hipped to a very easy way to enable http pipelining in firefox ( http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#oth_pipelining), which dramatically increased loading and downloading speeds.

Is there a way to enable http pipelining in Safari without having to purchase a program (a la safarispeed)?

1.5 gHz PowerBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Dec 15, 2006 6:16 AM

18 replies

Dec 16, 2006 10:13 AM in response to Prof. Rockwell

Hi again Prof! 😀

Just for reference you can use this site to check your speed:

http://www.speedtest.net/

Of course there are plenty sites to choose from but I don't know your location??? So this should work anywhere...

Reg

Jan 26, 2007 10:15 AM in response to Reggie Ashworth

Hi again Prof! 😀

Ok open your com.apple.Safari.plist and look for the
string near the bottom named
"WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay." The value should be
currently set at 1.0 and you can change the value to
.001. As a note, the value to change it to is
debatable and the .001 is the value that SafariSpeed
changes it to. That's where I have mine set...

You should see a difference but all you're really
doing is removing the delay so instead of a more
complete page showing all at once you will now get
"bits and pieces" of the page coming in. But it
certainly seems faster especially to me because my
connection is only 384kbps and I'll take what I can
get! And just to mention the old SafariSpeed was
free but it seems the developer added some things and
now charges for it.

Let me know if it works out and I'm assuming you have
all the latest (Tiger with Safari 2.0) and if so you
should have this string in your plist.

Reg 😀

When I opened the com.apple.Safari.plist in Omni Outliner I did not see that text string. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Brent

MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.7) MacBook, Snow iMac, G5 iMac, 15 gig iPod, 60 gig iPod Photo

Jan 26, 2007 5:06 PM in response to The teach

Hi Brent! 😀

So if you don't have two columns on top...one that says "Key" and one that says "Value?" With Safari you should have around 80 entries and the one for speeding up is just one of them. What do you get when you open up Omni Outliner?

Reg

Enabling http pipelining?