How to Speed Up Firefox

During the last few years Firefox has gained much popularity among the web users as a friendly and a fast web browser and its popularity is increasing as judged by its increasing market share in the browser wars. But the default settings are not the optimized ones if you are accessing the Internet through a fast broadband connection. The following tips will make your Firefox load web pages faster.

Before trying these tricks, you should know that a web browser interacts with the web server via HTTP or Hyper Text Transfer Protocol which is nothing but the medium through which a browser and web server talk. Now the development team has set some restriction on this communication keeping a wide range of users in mind. Some settings are optimized for low internet connectivity. But if you think you have a really fast connection, then go for the following steps.

Step 1:

First of all start your Firefox browser and type the following in the location bar “about:config”. In Firefox 3 you will be warned not to enter the page but do not worry, enter the page.

Step 2:

Once you enter the page you will see a long list and in the top a text field marked “Filter”. Type “http.pipelining” there and you will be presented with a filtered list as shown in the screenshot,

Step 3:

At the last column of every row you will see a field called “Value”. Now double click on the entry for ”network.http.pipeling” and the last column Value should change to “true” from the default “false”.

Step 4:

There will be another entry for “network.http.pipeling.maxrequests” whose default value will be 4. Double click on it and a pop up window will open up. Enter the value of 30 and press “OK”.

Step 5:

Now again search for the following entry in the Filter “http.proxy.pipelining” and change its value to “true”.

Step 6:

Right click on any blank area on the browser and right click. Go for “New” -> “Integer”. The following window will open up. Type the following string there and hit “OK”.