Is Your Firefox Getting Slow?

Let's tweak it!

Reduce the amount of RAM Firefox uses for it?s cache feature:

Here?s how to do it:
1. Type ?about:config? (no quotes) in the address bar in the browser.
2. Find ?browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer?
3. Set it?s value to ?0?;(Zero)


Increase the Speed in Which Firefox loads pages:

1. Stay in your ?about:config? or do the same as before, type ?about:config? into the address bar and hit Enter.
(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 a number 10 or over... I set mine to 32.

This means it will make 32 requests at once.

3. Last, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it ?nglayout.initialpaint.delay? and set its value to ?0?; (Zero)

This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. If you?re using a broadband connection you?ll load pages faster now.

Optionally; (for even faster web browsing) here are some more options for your about:config (you might have to create some of these entries by Right Click ?> New? > Interger or String

"network.dns.disableIPv6": set ?false?
?content.notify.backoffcount?: set ?5?; (Five)
?plugin.expose_full_path?: set ?true?.
?ui.submenuDelay?: set ?0"; (zero)

This little hack will drop Firefox?s RAM usage down to 10 Mb when minimized:

1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in "about:config" and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter ?config.trim_on_minimize?. Press Enter.
4. Now select "True" and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.

These simple tweaks will make your web browsing with Firefox 2-3 times faster and easier. And I think they are fairly easy to apply. Enjoy!