How to Drastically Speed Up FireFox Browser
 

Works like a charm!


Broadband users can get a significant speed increase from Firefox just by changing a couple of settings. Firefox is distributed with settings that will work with any machine or setup, but really anyone with a half-decent connection can make these changes and get a great speed increase, and here's how you do it!

Inside the address bar type:

about:config

and then find:

network.http.pipelining

network.http.proxy.pipelining

and set them both to "true". This adjusts the pipelining settings.


Then find

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

and set it to 8, though you should feel free to play with this number a little and tweak it as you see fit - the article http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.ht...ng.maxrequests suggests that 8 is easiliy sufficient.

Finally, right-click on any setting and select 'new' and then 'integer'. Set the name to "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" (you might want to copy & paste it) and set the value to "0" (zero). This removes the render delay.

Presto you should notice a significant speed increase from a simple optimization!

You're only finding this out now?

Thanks for the tip! :-)

Here are some other handy ones, some of these may only work in ff3.

browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll = True
toolkit.scrollbox.scrollIncrement = 75

Enable spell check in text fields
layout.spellcheckDefault = 2

To speed up the browser
network.http.max-connections = 96
network.http.max-connections-per-server = 32
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server = 8
network.http.pipelining = true
network.http.proxy.pipelining = true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 8
network.http.pipelining.ssl = true
network.http.proxy.pipelining = true

Make animations only loop once to stop annoying ads, sigs, and avatars.
image.animation_mode = once

network.prefetch-next = false

To show more tabs on single window
browser.tabs.tabMinWidth = 75

Stop Displaying Website Icon (Favicon) in Address bar & On Tab
browser.chrome.site_icons = false

Scroll webpage in One Go
mousewheel.withaltkey.action = 1

Nice man thanks!

Sweeeeet thread. Just updated to FF3, and fasterfox isn't there just yet.

Does anyone know how to set alt-tab to work inside FF? I use it CONSTANTLY to switch between windows, but it doesn't work in a tabbed browsing environment.

CTRL+1, 2, 3, 4, ect. or CTRL+tab.

Thanks!!

Oh, I see whatcha ment, my bad. Try Windows Key + Alt, it will cycle through whatever you have open at the bottom.

thx for the tips

get Chrome :thumbsup

NICE! This is exactly what I meant. Thanks!

thanks for the tips...

reminded me to do first tweaks on this install, plus learned some new ones. :)