Quick and simple Firefox tweaks--make it even faster!

If you are running Firefox (and you should be!), here are a few simple tweaks to get it running faster:

1.) Type "about:config" (minus the quotes) into the address bar, and hit return.

2.) Page down the list to find these 2 entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining

Right-click each one , and select "toggle" to set both values to "true"

3.) Find the entry called:

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

, right-click it, and set the value to an integer between 30 and 50, depending on the speed of your connection. 30 seems to work OK for dialups, higher values work well with broadband.

4.) Right-click anywhere in the blank area of the page, and select New-->Integer.

5.) Name the new setting "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0".

6.) Close the browser and then restart. You should see a noticeable increase in speed.

 

Firefox is PDQ, depending on the page you are loading, but nothing beats LYNX!

 

Increasing the pipelining max requests is bad. It increases the load on the remote httpd.

If you want a real tweak, uninstall firefox, install Opera.
Opera caches it's GDI objects, smaller footprint in memory, smaller executable size, less security bugs, etc, etc.