mrbscott19
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Make Firefox Faster<br />December 26, 2004 | Category: Open_Source | derek<br /><br />After you get past the beginner stage with Firefox, try this "power-user" trick to make it download pages faster by allowing multiple connections so it can download more than one file at a time. It's only useful for broadband users, so if you're still on dial-up you can just skip this one for now.<br /><br />Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:<br /><br />1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:<br /><br />network.http.pipelining <br />network.http.proxy.pipelining <br />network.http.pipelining.maxrequests<br /><br />Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.<br /><br />2. Alter the entries as follows:<br /><br />Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"<br /><br />Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"<br /><br />Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.<br /><br />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 receives.<br /><br />If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!<br /> http://forevergeek.com/open_source/make_firefox_faster.php
<br /><br />Thanks for the info Mrbscott19 
