Make FireFox Faster

by **coldbeast** Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:22 am

Want to make the safest, fastest, best user interface, and most customizable web browser even better?
Well now you can! You can make it much faster, and it's simple too!
And if you don't have FireFox already, get it, you baby. Who doesn't use FireFox? Babies don't.
Get it here:
Direct Download: Download FireFox
Visit the Website: Mozilla

Now here's what you do.

1: Open a new tab, and type in the URL "about:config"

2: Click "I'll be careful, I promise!". My promise is if you follow these steps correctly you'll love it.

3: Scroll to "network.http.keep-alive". If it isn't set to true, double click it to change it to true. Although this is the default, just make sure this is set to true. It also shouldn't be difficult to find. It's in alphabetical order, so yeah.

4: Scroll to "network.http.version" and set it to "1.1". This is also a default but you have to make sure it is set to that because the other stuff is dependent on this.

5: Now we are at the stuff that is not default, This Stuff You Need To Change Yourself. Scroll to "network.http.pipelining" and set it to true.

6: Scroll to "network.http.proxy.pipelining" and set it to true.

7: Scroll to "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" and set it to "30". Only set this if you have a fast internet to start with. Basically, requests are sent to load each individual thing on a web page. So your internet loads four things at a time. If you have a fast internet, set it to 30, your internet will load 30 things at a time, taking advantage of your internet.

8: Right Click anywhere on this page, and hit "New > Integer" and name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay". Set the value to "0". Basically, FireFox waits to load the page for a few fractions of a second. Setting this to 0 will make those fractions of a second gone, letting you get to your page faster.

Congrats on making FireFox faster!

Cheers!
~coldbeast