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Firefox Speed tweaks
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Posted by: mech.hacker12

Yes, firefox is already pretty **** fast but did you know that you can tweak it and improve the speed even more?

That's the beauty of this program being open source.
Here's what you do:
In the URL bar, type “about:config” and press enter. This will bring up the configuration “menu” where you can change the parameters of Firefox.

Note that these are what I’ve found to REALLY speed up my Firefox significantly - and these settings seem to be common among everybody else as well. But these settings are optimized for broadband connections - I mean with as much concurrent requests we’re going to open up with pipelining… lol… you’d better have a big connection.

Double Click on the following settins and put in the numbers below - for the true / false booleans - they’ll change when you double click.

Code:
browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs – true
network.http.max-connections – 48
network.http.max-connections-per-server – 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy – 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server – 4
network.http.pipelining – true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests – 100
network.http.proxy.pipelining – true
network.http.request.timeout – 300

One more thing… Right-click somewhere on that screen and add a 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. Since you’re broadband - it shouldn’t have to wait.

Now you should notice you’re loading pages MUCH faster now!

Posted by: RockyZ

The same info has already been posted a couple posts below.

Posted by: darkoverlord

holy crap. My firefox has been loading so much faster. thanks man, this is cool.

Posted by: mech.hacker12

no problems man ;)

mech.hacker12

Posted by: Greg

Yeah, I've done that before, and it works, but I prefer the 'Faster Fox' extension. ([url]https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&category=Popular&numpg=10&id=1269[/url])
It does all of the above, and also has support for prefetching.

Posted by: darkoverlord

Nice, thanks

Posted by: cowboyX

HOLY ****ING ****! **** it loads faster. . . . . . . I just started using dail up and it loads like when I use to have DSL. . . . . . DSL SUCKS! CABLE RULES!

Posted by: NurthinAziz

Dalm, I know I've tried this tweak many times. But all the other times I tried it, it didn't work as good as this xD. Now I'm actually feeling like I'm really using T1

Posted by: lazer_viking

but you guys know that it basically rapes the webserver?

Posted by: Remus21

Hehe ill second that

Posted by: provoke.bpk

man I've seen this on so many different threads

Posted by: jon2231

Wow, can't wait to try it.

Posted by: Babak-Online

Wowwwww !!!!
Thanks for it !!!

after this time:
Dial Up = DSL

Posted by: alexsabree

man.. i have cable... and it already is fast, no need to use this

I perfer Internet Explorer 7 beta 3, it looks better in my opinion

Posted by: weemanpow3

thanks its faster than ever

Posted by: qbbraveheart

nice tweaks :D

Posted by: bobojuice

f-ing amazing!!!