Thursday, March 31, 2005

Speed up Firefox

Would you like to make Firefox aprox. 3 times faster? If yes then keep on reading.
Today most people have fast internet connections but fewer know that their browsers aren't fully utilizing the speed.
By changing four settings in Firefox you can make it many times quicker to fetch heavy pages.
Here's your way to become a happier geek in just seven easy steps
  1. Type about:config as the address in Firefox, youl get a heap of settings
  2. Type network.http in the filter textbox to get a clearer view of the settings
  3. Double click network.http.pipelining to make it's value true
  4. Double click network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and make it's value 30 (this tells Firefox to make up to 30 requests at once)
  5. Set network.http.proxy.pipelining as true
  6. Right click anywhere in the setting list að choose New -> Integer, make the name nglayout.initialpaint.delay and it's value 0 (this makes Firefox respond faster to received data)
  7. Restart Firefox
When this is finished you should experience a severe increase in speed. (If you don't Firefox probably didn't restart properly or your network connection is to slow to begin with)
For those who have ever been frustrated with slow response on imdb.com I recommend checking it out after the changes (I was blown away). For other users I just recommend checking out some content heavy pages to try the new settings.
Thanks to ipkonfig.com for this info

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