How to Speed-Up Firefox

The place to start if you are running Mozilla Firefox as your web browser is by updating your software to the latest version. The most recent release from Mozilla is 3.5.2 – issued August 3^rd, 2009 – is the fastest version yet, improving in speed and performance over earlier versions 2 and 3.

There are a couple of techie tweaks that you might consider making to your Firefox browser settings to really speed things up. These changes alter the way that Firefox is programmed to load pages, making it request more information at a time and access it faster. These hidden configuration settings tweaks are only applicable for computers with broadband Internet connections since the default settings are configured for dial up connections.

In the Firefox address bar, type about:config then press Enter
A page of listings will open – type pipelining into the search bar, press Enter and scroll through and look for the following entries:

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

Make the following changes by clicking twice on the entry:

After the first entry – set to true

After the second entry – set to true
After the third entry – set a number around 10 – the number of request to make at any time

Now, search for max-connections
You’ll see listings for:

network.http.max-connections: Change this to 96.
network.http.max-connections-per-server: Change this to 32

Right click anywhere on the page and choose new->integer
Enter the name nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set the value to 0 – this is the amount of time the browser waits before initiating information
Restart your Firefox browser and check out the speed!

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If anything goes wrong when you are making changes on the hidden configuration panel, there is a remedy that will prevent you needing to uninstall and reinstall the program, losing your preferences and user settings. To reset the Firefox settings, first close Firefox, then follow these directions:

Click Start, then Run
In the command bar, enter firefox.exe –safe-mode
This will open the Firefox Safe Mode Screen – choose Reset All User Settings to Firefox Defaults
Hit Enter, then restart Firefox

Another service pre-set into Firefox isn’t always the most useful when it comes to loading speed. Firefox is programmed to load the pages that it anticipates you clicking on, rather than waiting to see what links you actually choose. The same way that a Google search starts loading the top hits as soon as they show up, Firefox loads the pages it expects you to want to see. However, in the event that you don’t want those pages, the whole procedure can actually slow you down. You can change this setting by using the same steps as above to open the about:config page:

Search for network.

Find the listing for network.prefetch-next and click on it twice to change the setting to false.

These tips and tweaks should really improve your Firefox browser speed and page loading performance.

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