Thread: Speed up Firefox

Hi guys and gals this tutorial is about how to speed up Mozilla Firefox about 3-30x Faster!!!

If your a firefox lover like me then you should try this.

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 2-30 times faster

now let me show you another firefox trick


1.in the browser tap about:config then enter

2.right click on any of the entries --->New---->Boolean-----> and you name it config.trim_on_minimize---->set the value to true

this solves the problem that arises in the way Firefox handles RAM. Most programs return unused RAM when they are minimized,Firefox on the other hand does not do so,which leads it to occupy huge amounts of RAM
but thanks to this trick from now on Firefox will act like any other windows application and return all unused memory when minimized

Original source:Hacking Firefox: The secrets of about:config



Enjoy:)

I knew about the network tweaks but never knew about the minimize config settings. Thanks!