subject: Make Firefox Faster With This Easy Guide [print this page] Many of us Internet fanatics had been delighted when we found out 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 introduced onto the scene it was efficient and innovative. It seemed to move at lightening speeds, and was so much more secure than Internet Explorer. However, it seems over time with a great number of add-ons and plug-ins, and with each new upgrade, things seem to always be slowing it down.
While you might feel this is actually the web browser's fault, truth of the matter it really is simply not. The truth is that a lot of variables play key roles in the speed of the browser. Things such as your computer's hardware, internet connection or internet speed, the server of the internet site you are visiting, and at times even the amount of tabs you have opened. All this taken into account you will still be able to find ways to make Firefox faster by doing a few edits inside the config file in your browser.
We are planning to walk you through a few measures that should allow you to speed up Firefox when you are browsing. This is for broadband users and take note that if you think you made a mistake you are able to always click the 'restore to defaults' button. This course of action will be working with pipelining (items within the ' ' you need to just type what's in between, you do not have 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.
Reopen browser to see if this did in fact make Firefox faster. There are additional hacks and tricks you can do, however, this one is the most frequent, and it works without the need to change any of your actual computer environment settings.
