Speed Up Firefox Easily and Quickly
A lot of us internet fanatics were delighted when we learned about the release of Firefox web browser several years ago. It boasted of security and speed, as well as themes and plug-ins. It did seem to live up to the media hype, when it was first launched onto the scene it was efficient and impressive. It seemed to move at lightening speeds, and was a great deal more secure than Internet Explorer. However, it seems over time with so many add-ons and plug-ins, and with each new update, things seem to always be slowing it down.
Although you might feel this is in fact the web browser’s fault, truth of the matter it really is simply not. The reality is that a lot of factors play key roles in the speed of the browser. Things which include your computer’s hardware, internet connection or internet speed, the server of the website you are visiting, and at times even the number of tabs you have opened. All this taken into consideration you will still be able to find methods to make Firefox faster by making a few edits within the config file in your browser.
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We are intending to walk you through a few actions that should allow you to speed up Firefox whenever you are surfing around. This is for broadband users and note that if you think you made a mistake you can always click the ‘restore to defaults’ button. This procedure will be working with pipelining (items inside the ‘ ‘ you need to just type what’s in between, you do not need to include ‘ ‘).
* Open Firefox and in the url box type (without ‘ ‘) ‘about:config’
* You will get a box that might say ‘this will void your warranty’ – click I’m Sure.
* In the find (or you can scroll to find) locate ‘network.http.pipelining’ – change to ‘true’ by double-clicking it.
* In the find (or you can scroll to find) locate ‘network.http.proxy.pipelining’ – set it to true by double-clicking it.
* Next find ‘network.http.pipelining.maxrequests’ and change the number to ’8′ by double clicking and changing the value.
* You should now right click someone in the area and click ‘New’ => Integer for the name ‘nglayout.initialpaint.delay’ and then set value to ’0?.
* Close browser.
Re-open browser to see if this did indeed make Firefox faster. There are various other hacks and tricks you can do, however, this one is the most common, and it works without the need to change any of your specific computer environment settings.
