Firefox Speed Up
By macubx
@macubx (11414)
Philippines
October 23, 2006 1:41am CST
1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit enter. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
2. 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 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New- Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.
Let me know if this works!
5 people like this
22 responses
@RealIolo (1854)
• United States
28 Oct 06
How can I back up this about:config list before altering it? I don't have provisions to backup my whole system. I suppose I might be able to backup to DVDs but I don't have many.
@GlussBrazil (290)
• Brazil
19 Nov 06
Thank you for your informations..
Another tip is to download an extension called: FasterFox (really good)
@harshakiran (188)
• India
24 Oct 06
hello it depends 30 is good value but we can keep that value upto 100 how ever 40-50 is a good one,that works well but be care full and back up your system
@manodogs (415)
• United States
24 Oct 06
Wow. Thanks so much! I not only had to change every key you suggested, I had no idea this "about:config" bit even existed. Granted, I haven't read up much on the whole thing, but I have been having a few problems here and there.
Most notably is that when I open more than two tabs on the same page then close one, it has a tendency to close them all, shutting down the whole browser. It also sometimes does this just out of the blue.
Thanks again. I'll let you know the results.
@ngm_syd (1087)
• India
28 Nov 06
Wow. Thanks so much! I not only had to change every key you suggested, I had no idea this "about:config" bit even existed. Granted, I haven't read up much on the whole thing, but I have been having a few problems here and there.
Most notably is that when I open more than two tabs on the same page then close one, it has a tendency to close them all, shutting down the whole browser. It also sometimes does this just out of the blue.
Thanks again. I'll let you know the results.
@smokin_gunner (124)
• India
28 Nov 06
dont see ny difference man, but nyways nice info didnt knew that.
Keep up the good work
@anup_cfa (899)
• India
22 Nov 06
cant believe it its working..what a lovely advice. Thanks so much! I not only had to change every key you suggested, I had no idea this "about:config" bit even existed. Granted, I haven't read up much on the whole thing, but I have been having a few problems here and there.
Most notably is that when I open more than two tabs on the same page then close one, it has a tendency to close them all, shutting down the whole browser. It also sometimes does this just out of the blue.
Thanks again. I'll let you know the results.
