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Old 25-04-2006, 20:09   #1
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Proxy's on Firefox

just got 10Mb upgrade and one thing i've found is that using the same proxy on IE and FF i get a faster speed test on IE and one of roughly half that on FF. is there any reason for that or am i a having missed something when changing the proxy in FF
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Re: Proxy's on Firefox

You might want to look into how Pipelining works in Firefox and then set it up properly
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Re: Proxy's on Firefox

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just got 10Mb upgrade and one thing i've found is that using the same proxy on IE and FF i get a faster speed test on IE and one of roughly half that on FF. is there any reason for that or am i a having missed something when changing the proxy in FF
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You might want to look into how Pipelining works in Firefox and then set it up properly
If its a recent d/l of FF then I assume its 1.5....... pipeline and the rest of the tweaks come pre built IIRC
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Re: Proxy's on Firefox

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If its a recent d/l of FF then I assume its 1.5....... pipeline and the rest of the tweaks come pre built IIRC
Nice, never knew that
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