Firefox Speed Tweaks

Yes, firefox is already pretty damn fast but did you know that you can tweak it and improve the speed even more?

That's the beauty of this program being open source.

Here's what you do:

In the URL bar, type 揳bout:config?and press enter. This will bring up the configuration 搈enu?where you can change the parameters of Firefox.

Note that these are what I抳e found to REALLY speed up my Firefox significantly - and these settings seem to be common among everybody else as well. But these settings are optimized for broadband connections - I mean with as much concurrent requests we抮e going to open up with pipelining?lol?you抎 better have a big connection.

Double Click on the following settins and put in the numbers below - for the true / false booleans - they抣l change when you double click.

Code:

browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs ?true

network.http.max-connections ?48

network.http.max-connections-per-server ?16

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy ?8

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server ?4

network.http.pipelining ?true

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests ?100

network.http.proxy.pipelining ?true

network.http.request.timeout ?300

One more thing?Right-click somewhere on that screen and add a NEW -> Integer. Name it 搉glayout.initialpaint.delay?and set its value to ?? This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. Since you抮e broadband - it shouldn抰 have to wait.

Now you should notice you抮e loading pages MUCH faster now!