Alex de Carvalho

Making Mozilla’s Firefox Faster

by Alex de Carvalho. Average Reading Time: about a minute.

Ok, this is a bit tech­ni­cal but use­ful if you’re using Fire­fox: PC Per­spec­tive / Amdmb Forums — Mak­ing Mozilla’s Fire­fox “FASTER”.

Here’s some­thing for broad­band peo­ple that will really speed Fire­fox up:

1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the fol­low­ing entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Nor­mally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time.
When you enable pipelin­ing it will make sev­eral at once, which really
speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as fol­lows (right click on the entry and select “Toggle”):

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”

Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some num­ber like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click any­where and select New-> Inte­ger. Name it
“nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0”. This value is
the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on infor­ma­tion it
recieves.

If you’re using a broad­band con­nec­tion you’ll load pages 2–3 times faster now.

Good luck and let me know if you’d like some help with this.

  • tom

    i am fed up with see­ing the same meth­ods used to speed up mozilla fire­fox.
    It wouldn’t be so bad if the para­graphs weren’t iden­ti­cal word for word.
    Any­way I have respect for the per­son who found those tricks out (Prob­a­bly some­one from mozilla), but no respect for the peo­ple that regur­gi­tate it.

  • http://www.tapio.com alex

    Tom, you’re not con­tribut­ing any­thing new your­self and i have no respect for trolls. I wrote this about 9 months ago and as you’ll see from the post, I take no credit for this tip, I link back to where I found it from and I com­mu­ni­cate this infor­ma­tion to peo­ple who might not have found it from the orig­i­nal author. Like­wise, I’m more than happy when some­one does the same with some­thing I might have written.

    Cheer up, will ya?