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Making Mozilla’s Firefox Faster

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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, 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?
  • 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.
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