Firefox Speed Up Web Surfing
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Overview
For those Broadband users out there you can speed up Firefox by turning on Pipelining. 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.
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Enable Pipelining
- Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
- network.http.pipelining
- network.http.proxy.pipelining
- network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
- Alter the entries as follows:
- Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
- Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
- Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
- Lastly reduce the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives by:
- right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer
- Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0"
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Fasterfox Browser Plugin
Alternatively, you can install the Fasterfox Browser Plugin. Click this link [1] to install Fasterfox to your Mozilla browser.
