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How to Speed Up Mozilla Firefox Browser

Monday, 28 June 2010 08:18 by michael

The more faster the internet speed is, the more comfortable your web-browsing is. But sometimes there can be significant slowdown due to improperly configured browser, even if you have fast internet package. Supposing that Mozilla FireFox is used for browsing, certain changes can be made to improve the performance.

How to Speed Up Mozilla FireFox Browser:

1. Launch Mozilla FF. In the address bar type in: "about:config" without quotation marks and press Enter. Scroll down and look for the following entries.

network.http.pipelining

network.http.proxy.pipelining

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

2. Normally the browser will make one request to a site at a time. When enebling pipelining it will make several at once, which really gives good results.

3. 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 "40-60"  which indicates the number of requests.

 

Mozilla FF.PNG

4. The last thing to do is to right-click anywhere and select New > Integer. Name "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set it to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.


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