Firefox Speed Tweaks

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16 September 2008 13 Comments Posted By Ashik

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!

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13 Comments »

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# 2 November 2008 at 8:03 am

pravin said:

yup, dude…..
Its gr8…..really gr8
I wud like to study more about the opensource of mozilla
Can u give me any links to know more…..

# 7 March 2009 at 1:55 am

Needa said:

Fire fox is already fast but if I can make it faster I will. I really enjoy your tips and your blog.

Is there a good Fire Fox plugin for to find a websites IP address?

# 12 March 2009 at 3:27 am

abdhulaziz said:

my comp doesn;t have internet please can you send me the settings of internet yo put it in the command promt and use internet freely

# 8 June 2009 at 7:46 pm

Bikash said:

Thanks guys…I really enjoy it….But can u send me some tricks on Flock web browser (how to speed up like firefox)

# 28 December 2009 at 9:46 am

kernzone said:

if you wanna optimize your internet performance, i suggest downloading dsl speed, it can boosts internet connection, thereby speeding up your computer

# 18 January 2010 at 6:35 am

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# 24 February 2010 at 7:28 pm

Marc charles said:

Pls can i get new mtn proxy for browsing

# 19 June 2010 at 4:03 am

Abhishek said:

I could not find the following things in that.. so should i create that?

1) browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs
2) network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy
3) network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server
4) network.http.request.timeout

I am using firefox 3.6.3

# 22 June 2010 at 7:02 pm

Jitender Thakran said:

nice guyss…
its: working♥,.,.,.,

# 22 June 2010 at 8:48 pm

Sarthak said:

can u plz tell if dese modifications work for dial up connections

# 28 June 2010 at 10:10 pm

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