Yes, firefox is
already pretty damn fast but did you know that you can tweak it and improve the
speed even more?
That's the beauty
of this program being open source.
Here's what you
do:
In the URL bar,
type “about:config” and press enter. This will bring up the configuration
“menu” where you can change the parameters of Firefox.
Note that these
are what I’ve found to REALLY speed up my Firefox significantly - and these
settings seem to be common among everybody else as well. But these settings are
optimized for broadband connections - I mean with as much concurrent requests
we’re going to open up with pipelining… lol… you’d better have a big
connection.
Double Click on
the following settins and put in the numbers below - for the true / false
booleans - they’ll change when you double click.
Code:
browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs
– true
network.http.max-connections
– 48
network.http.max-connections-per-server
– 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy
– 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server
– 4
network.http.pipelining
– true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
– 100
network.http.proxy.pipelining
– true
network.http.request.timeout
– 300
One more thing…
Right-click somewhere on that screen and add a 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. Since you’re broadband - it
shouldn’t have to wait.
Now you should
notice you’re loading pages MUCH faster now!
