First I’ve got a tip from my house-mate (a geek) about how to speed up Firefox. I was a little skeptical at first, I understand if you are too, but it really does speed up Firefox and is worth a try. I only suggest doing this if you are on a high speed connection but at the same time if you aren’t on a high speed connection by now then you should be figuring out how to get on one (and then do this).

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.

Have fun with a faster Firefox and enjoy!