In fact, I was very excited when I heard its “pipelining” feature as a Firefox user. Because, this feature does speed up the Firefox 100% according to rumors and thence I had decided to try it. After using the Firefox with this for quite a while, I noticed the slowness on the page load. So I was going crazy when I try to open Facebook because of images loadings. I could not bear this situation because it was lasting a long time and I have not used Firefox for a while. So, I was broken with Firefox now :).
However, I would need it again afterwards. Because, it was number one and a must for us for web developers like every time.
After using it such for a while, I tried to find that how to fix the reason of this slowness, I was clearing the cache up or uninstalling some addons. But there should be another reason. And then, I thought of the changes on the Firefox settings which I have made. Yes! These were exactly “pipelining settings”.
I immediately restored these settings and opened the pages loaded slowly before. The result was nice, so Firefox was faster now. At this point, I thought of why the Firefox distributor does not provide it opening this feature as default. I think they knew something I don’t.
I can not say that I have knowledge enough technically but the pipelining feature affecting the cache usage negatively or maybe blocking it as I see. For this reason, I am using the Firefox closing its pipelining feature and happy of this.
If you would like to test it, use the Firefox opening and closing the pipelining feature on the pages with image lot of. I think you will see the difference.
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It generally does, but you’re right.. It seems to cause issues with Facebook. I’m not sure why though since Chrome uses pipelining too and works fine.
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