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Turbo Charge Your Firefox Browser



Here is a quick and easy hack for speeding up your browsing sessions using FireFox and your broadband connection. It will basically lets Firefox make multiple request for data concurrently.

1.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

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.

2. 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.

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.

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I think the hack worked for me, I opened one of my hefty folders by doing a “Open in Tabs”, I do this quite often, and it really seemed to open a lot faster than normal. I hope it works for you too.

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10 Responses to “Turbo Charge Your Firefox Browser”

  1. Sebhelyesfarku Says:
    December 28th, 2004 at 12:59 pm

    I wonder whether “network.http.max-connections-per-server” could be set higher also?

  2. zombyboy Says:
    December 28th, 2004 at 9:35 pm

    Dude, I drop by and see this article. Then I go do my normal surfing and see it linked on Macsurfer. You’re my hero.

  3. kororo Says:
    December 29th, 2004 at 1:18 am

    Amazing…Its like driving a ferrari!

  4. pixelsmith Says:
    December 29th, 2004 at 11:07 am

    amazing! VERY FAST!

  5. Yippee-Ki-Yay! Says:
    December 29th, 2004 at 12:57 pm

    Using Firefox?
    Wish it were faster? Now you can hack it.

  6. Weekend Pundit Says:
    December 30th, 2004 at 10:15 pm

    Pump Up FireFox Performance
    I came across an interesting hack for the FireFox browser that speeds up its performance if you have a broadband connection. I tried this out…

  7. Earle Says:
    December 31st, 2004 at 8:42 pm

    Thanks for making this hack available!!

  8. Marius Weblog Says:
    January 9th, 2005 at 6:25 pm

    Firefox’o paturbinimas…
    Atrodo imt kart buvau rads iuos Firefox’o nustatym patinkinimus broanband ryiui, bet visad kakur juos pamesdavau po narykls perinstaliavimo… taigi, paymime, k reiks kit kart keisti about:config lange: network.http.pipelining pakeisti …

  9. Zenpickle Says:
    March 13th, 2005 at 3:41 am

    I started getting the Blue Screen of Death while using Firefox today after changing these settings. It may be because I’m using Win 98 SE. Who knows…

  10. r34l1ty7 Says:
    March 15th, 2005 at 12:15 pm

    VERY VERY IMPRESSIVE. Sometime makes me wonder how you guys find this stuff out !!!
    Cheerz !!

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