Speed Up Your Firefox

[RoadKiller]

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:
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 MUCH faster now!

 

[MaXtor]

Yeah, been using this for a long time now. Although that network.http.pipelining.maxrequests is going to kill the internet if everyone uses it, lol. I have mine even higher than 30... OoOoo.

I didnt have that delay one though, thank you.

 

[howard_hopkinso]

Maybe you guys should look at Techspot`s very own Firefox tweak guide.

Regards Howard

 

[Peddant]

Or you could go straight to the best- http://www.opera.com/download/

 

[kodrutz]

Well, the topic was about speeding up FireFox, and not about FF vs Opera, right?

You can leave manual optimisations and try FasterFox. Grab it here -> http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/

 

[MaXtor]

I have Opera as well as Firefox. I very much prefer the fox over Opera... Better customization, and I have never had a security problem or any reason to want to use anyother browser. I will be with Fx for very long time.