Make Firefox Faster

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 any number around 5-12. This
means it will make X requests at once, depending on the number you put in.

NOTE: A recommended number is either 8 or 12.

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 2-3 times faster now.

IMPORTANT: Some small sites may block your connection because it DOES take up more bandwidth than usual. Take note.

This post has been edited by Kelvin: Feb 22 2008, 02:12 AM

Wow! Thanks! It worked for me, it's much faster now!

This post has been edited by adrianakissi: Dec 25 2007, 10:17 PM

You can also get the Fasterfox extension for performance and network tweaks from:
-->https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/se...ox&status=4

Wow, I am running a fast computer...
But these tweaks made it run atleast 30% faster on opening web pages.

Thanks a lot!

THanks for the tips! Helped alot!

Thankz Kelvin!

Amazing tip
i used the add in though.
Made my fav browser even faster thanks

Hey, I just joined today and checked out "Make Firefox Faster" and saw someone from my home town. Greetings from North Eastham, Cape Cod, Mass. I live up by Nauset Light Beach it is really cold today and getting colder. I hope this tip will speed up my FireFox, I love the add ons so much, now there are way too many and it is slow. I have been using "Flock' which is built on a FireFox platform and works great. Take Care Cape Codder!

This article you might be of some interest: http://www.computerworld.com/action/articl...mp;pageNumber=1

Hi there,

eager me , I made a mistake
so now I have an extra line saying

true with a value of true

how do I delete it out of there?

Hi;

I did the same thing and resolved it this way:

To reset a preference to its default value or to remove an added preference, context-click (right-click) on the preference and select Reset. If you added the entry via about:config, the preference will no longer be listed after restarting the program.

This is a quote from MozillaZine.

It works even if Reset is greyed- it did for me. Hope this helps.

thanks alot man
made a huge difference!

cool! thanks alot! really helped

Well the only new thing out of that was the thing I had to add (the other two were True).

But I still love you <3

Helps a lot =D

Thanks, it's so much faster.