Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

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 recieves.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!

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Hey, mukund!

Thank you for this excellent tip!
I just did this configuration change and I can see the results...
The pages are loading much faster.

Come to think of it, I was not aware that so many configuration options are available for Firefox!!

BTW, I visited your site and you have a nice layout on your site. Good collecton of news items too...

Thank you
Googlue!

dang this has been posted a few times before
but oh well

Ahh. this is very useful, and good use of stuff that is available, nice thinking whoever thought of that first...However until I get broadband ( could be a long and painful task due to my stupid alarm system that doesnt let you use broadband unless you get their guys to install an internal microfilter for $170ish dollars, when you could do the same fore $20 yourself but then insurance insn't covered....) ANyway, I think the best bet for broadband in the UK is a very low cost 1mb connection of £19.99, and this is with unimited amounts of downloaded material, not Capped, my friend has used it for a while and says it is very reliable, so for anyone in the uk go to ; www.thestar.org.uk to get extremely low cost broadband!!! Thanks again forthe tip though, and I will use it soon hopefully, r at least at work when they install forefox, as we are still dtuck on Internet Explorer! Damn internet explorer...

I already had this posted in the tutorials section.

Well, Benz1435, I checked that and you are right. It has been posted earlier at the tutorials section.
However, I have reason to believe that mukund has not copied and pasted here from your tutorial.

This is a piece of information that is not seen in your post, but only in Mukund's post:


This piece of information is seen in your post, but not in Mukund's post:


But I would suggest to mukund that he should search for such a topic before posting new ones.

Googlue

Thank you to everyone who posted this. I have not tried the other versions that have been posted, but this one worked for me. It's definitely loading pages much faster now! Thanks!

thanx for information

I downloaded Firefox just to try this lol...

I usually always had that browser anyway, but since I've gotten my new computer, I just haven't been bothered with it yet. But I've followed the steps, and it really does seem to be faster. I had no idea things like that even existed for us users to change.

Thanks a lot for the tip!

This is indeed very impressive, however, I do not know at what speed firefox loaded the pages prior to the editing. Therefore, I do not know by how much loading time actually decreased by, and whether it decreased at all, or its just an illusion.