how to speed up firefox

[legacy-user-33]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts

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!

[legacy-user-33]

Just tried, and works. Pages are loading faster than Opera now.

[Sweet-WRX-Lovin]

Thx man, works great!

Edit: Been doing some more surfing. Seriously this kicks ass. Thanks again for the info.

[Guest]

works great for firefox....anyone got a way to speed up IE (I can't put it on my work computer)

[legacy-user-544]

thats some good stuff. the last update they did slowed down my firefox a lot and made pics load really slow, this took care of the problem. thanks a lot.

[legacy-user-33]

tjamz wrote:
anyone got a way to speed up IE (I can't put it on my work computer)

http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmac/archive/2004/08/25/220001.aspx
http://www.beemerworld.com/tips/browserspeed.htm

BTW, another option to IE is Aol Explorer, works the same way as IE, just a bit faster...