Monday, February 4, 2008

Make Your Firefox Lightning Fast

Firefox filled with lots of features and cool add-ons are the dominant web browser of today. That’s not all there is to it. With Firefox you can speed up your browsing experience by doing this simple tweak.

Note: This tweaked is only useful for broadband connection only. It won’t work with dial up connection. So for dial up user you can skip this guide for now as it will do you no good.

  1. Open your Firefox browser. In the address bar, type in “about:config” and hit Return. You will notice a long list of things. Scroll down the list and look for these entries

    1. Network.http.pipelining
      • Set the value to true by double clicking on the entries.

    2. Network.http.proxy.pipelining
      • Set the value to true by double clicking on the entries

    3. Network.http.pipelining.maxrequest
      • Set the value to any number to a bigger number. This will determine the maximum number of request to the server at once. If you type in 30 then it will give out 30 requests at once.

  2. Lastly right-click anywhere on the page and select New >> Integer. A box will come out and demand for the new preferences name. Enter the name as “nglayout.initialpaint.delay “and set its value to “0”. This will make sure Firefox act upon receives certain information.

Voila, you should have a better surfing experience by now. Enjoy!!

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