Monday, March 7, 2011

Making Mozilla Firefox faster

We all know Firefox is a memory hogger. To speed up Firefox, however, you can follow the steps shown below :

  1. Open Firefox and in the address bar, type in 'about:config'.
  2. Click on the button : "I'll be careful, I promise".
  3. Use the search bar located on the page to look for 'network.http.pipelining' and double click on it to set its value to 'True'.
  4. Create new Boolean value named 'network.http.pipelining.firstrequest' and set that to 'True', as well.
  5. Find "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" and double click on it. Then change its value to 8.
  6. Look for "network.http.proxy.pipelining" and set it to "True".
  7. Create two new integers named "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and "content.notify.interval"  ; set them to "0".
  8. Now, restart your browser to experience the difference.