Make your Mozilla/Firefox faster

[Stormhammer]

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: (done by double clicking on entry)

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 receives.

This will greatly increase the speed of firefox.




found this on another forum - tried it out... and 

[73ChargerSE]

wow. thank you. I'm surprised my geek friend hasn't taught me this haha 

[Charger4404spd]

Yeah it is faster. Thanks Justin for the tip.

[moparguy01]

wow. that made a difference. thanks!

[Stormhammer]

anything to make the internet load up faster... especially Ebay 

[Wakko]

Yeah, Firefox always takes forever to load icons.  Didn't seem much faster with the mods, but anything helps.