Maximizing Firefox speed

This a boring post with no jokes, interesting links or stories about last night. I just came across this pointer from the TechLads blog about setting everyone’s favorite browser up for getting the most out of high speed internet connections. Apparently it is optimized by default for dial-up connections.

1- Type about:config in the address bar and press enter.
2- Enter network.http in the filter field and enter the following changes.
3- Double click on ‘network.http.pipelining’ and set the value to true.
4- Double click on ‘network.http.pipelining.maxrequests’ and in the dialog box enter a higher value than the default value 4. 15 is an ideal value.
5- Double click on ‘network.http.proxy.pipelining’ and set the value to true.
6- Right click on the page and select New -> Integer. Enter nglayout.initialpaint.delay and then click ok. Set the integer value of this to 0 and click ok.

Disclaimer: I have no idea if this works

posted by Alex Herder on 5 June 2008
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