This will make your pages load even faster. 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: (by double clicking them) Set
"network.http.pipelining" to "true" Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" Set
"network.http.pip...

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.ht...

If you're lured away from Firefox because it lacks IE7's new looks then you can make Firefox
look like Windows Internet Explorer 7. To do this all you need to do is to install the following
extensions and themes: myFirefox theme Firesomething 1.7 extension, hacked for Firefox 2 by
John Haller . (not working? see post #5) Firefox Showcase The myFirefox theme alters the GUI and
Firesomething the title bar. Firefox Showcase does the little tab preview thing: To alter
Firesomething so that it only displays the title Windows Internet Explorer go ...

ok, here are the steps to make your firefox browser go up to 40 times faster! firstly, in your
address bar, type in about:config once it opens, it should be something not too dissimilar to
this... browse to the entry network.http.pipelining double-click on it next, browse to
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests double-click on it change the integer to 100 double click on
the value network.http.proxy.pipelining once you have found it double-click on
network.dns.disableIPv6 double-click on plugin.expose_full_path right-click on any value ,
choo...

While searching some stufff about using two different browsers I came upon this little site that
last some of the best firefox tricks ever (including the pipeline trick) they even got tricks for
lowering ram usage from firefox which is hte best thing ever, because I soak up a lot of RAM from FF
with all the extensions I have. They even got tricks I don't think most people here on the
forums know about either. For the ones I have tested so far they seem to still work on firefox
2.0.0.4 which is a good thing, but I haven't tested them on FireFox 3 yet. I would r...

This made firefox run about 4 times quicker on my ISDN connection. 1. Type "about:config" in the
adress field. 2. Set the value of network.http.pipelining to "true". 3. Set the value of
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to "100". 4. Set the value of network.http.proxy.pipelining to
"true" 5. Set the value of nglayout.initialpaint.delay to "0" Taken from
http://www.computerbb.org/about150.html ...