Speed up Mozilla Firefox 3-30x Faster

I came across this little tip earlier tonight. I followed the instructions and nothing blew up. Maybe the browser is faster, but I don’t have anyway to compare the speed. Seems faster but no hard data to back this up. Again though, nothing blew up and I guess it can’t hurt.




So if your using Mozilla or Firefox why not give it a try. Hopefully you will see some increase in your browsers page load speed.

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 brodband connection you’ll load pages 2-30 times faster now.

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