How to Drastically Speed Up FireFox Browser

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  • webair
    Confirmed User
    • Feb 2002
    • 8531
    #1

    How to Drastically Speed Up FireFox Browser

    Works like a charm!


    Broadband users can get a significant speed increase from Firefox just by changing a couple of settings. Firefox is distributed with settings that will work with any machine or setup, but really anyone with a half-decent connection can make these changes and get a great speed increase, and here's how you do it!

    Inside the address bar type:

    about:config

    and then find:

    network.http.pipelining

    network.http.proxy.pipelining

    and set them both to "true". This adjusts the pipelining settings.


    Then find

    network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

    and set it to 8, though you should feel free to play with this number a little and tweak it as you see fit - the article http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.ht...ng.maxrequests suggests that 8 is easiliy sufficient.

    Finally, right-click on any setting and select 'new' and then 'integer'. Set the name to "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" (you might want to copy & paste it) and set the value to "0" (zero). This removes the render delay.

    Presto you should notice a significant speed increase from a simple optimization!


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    • candyflip
      Carpe Visio
      • Jul 2002
      • 43074
      #2
      You're only finding this out now?

      Spend you some brain.
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        • AssPirate
          Confirmed User
          • Aug 2006
          • 2135
          #3
          Thanks for the tip! :-)

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            • TheDoc
              Too lazy to set a custom title
              • Jul 2001
              • 13827
              #4
              Here are some other handy ones, some of these may only work in ff3.

              browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll = True
              toolkit.scrollbox.scrollIncrement = 75

              Enable spell check in text fields
              layout.spellcheckDefault = 2

              To speed up the browser
              network.http.max-connections = 96
              network.http.max-connections-per-server = 32
              network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server = 8
              network.http.pipelining = true
              network.http.proxy.pipelining = true
              network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 8
              network.http.pipelining.ssl = true
              network.http.proxy.pipelining = true

              Make animations only loop once to stop annoying ads, sigs, and avatars.
              image.animation_mode = once

              network.prefetch-next = false

              To show more tabs on single window
              browser.tabs.tabMinWidth = 75

              Stop Displaying Website Icon (Favicon) in Address bar & On Tab
              browser.chrome.site_icons = false

              Scroll webpage in One Go
              mousewheel.withaltkey.action = 1
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                • webair
                  Confirmed User
                  • Feb 2002
                  • 8531
                  #5
                  Originally posted by TheDoc
                  Here are some other handy ones, some of these may only work in ff3.

                  browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll = True
                  toolkit.scrollbox.scrollIncrement = 75

                  Enable spell check in text fields
                  layout.spellcheckDefault = 2

                  To speed up the browser
                  network.http.max-connections = 96
                  network.http.max-connections-per-server = 32
                  network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server = 8
                  network.http.pipelining = true
                  network.http.proxy.pipelining = true
                  network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 8
                  network.http.pipelining.ssl = true
                  network.http.proxy.pipelining = true

                  Make animations only loop once to stop annoying ads, sigs, and avatars.
                  image.animation_mode = once

                  network.prefetch-next = false

                  To show more tabs on single window
                  browser.tabs.tabMinWidth = 75

                  Stop Displaying Website Icon (Favicon) in Address bar & On Tab
                  browser.chrome.site_icons = false

                  Scroll webpage in One Go
                  mousewheel.withaltkey.action = 1

                  Nice man thanks!


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                    • gornyhuy
                      Chafed.
                      • May 2002
                      • 18041
                      #6
                      Sweeeeet thread. Just updated to FF3, and fasterfox isn't there just yet.

                      Does anyone know how to set alt-tab to work inside FF? I use it CONSTANTLY to switch between windows, but it doesn't work in a tabbed browsing environment.

                      icq:159548293

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                        • TheDoc
                          Too lazy to set a custom title
                          • Jul 2001
                          • 13827
                          #7
                          Originally posted by gornyhuy
                          Sweeeeet thread. Just updated to FF3, and fasterfox isn't there just yet.

                          Does anyone know how to set alt-tab to work inside FF? I use it CONSTANTLY to switch between windows, but it doesn't work in a tabbed browsing environment.
                          CTRL+1, 2, 3, 4, ect. or CTRL+tab.
                          ~TheDoc - ICQ7765825
                          It's all disambiguation

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                            • theharvman
                              Confirmed User
                              • Sep 2002
                              • 1366
                              #8
                              Thanks!!
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                                • TheDoc
                                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                                  • Jul 2001
                                  • 13827
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by gornyhuy
                                  Sweeeeet thread. Just updated to FF3, and fasterfox isn't there just yet.

                                  Does anyone know how to set alt-tab to work inside FF? I use it CONSTANTLY to switch between windows, but it doesn't work in a tabbed browsing environment.
                                  Oh, I see whatcha ment, my bad. Try Windows Key + Alt, it will cycle through whatever you have open at the bottom.
                                  ~TheDoc - ICQ7765825
                                  It's all disambiguation

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                                    • fuzzylogic
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Jun 2004
                                      • 4796
                                      #10
                                      thx for the tips

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                                        • xavierx
                                          Confirmed User
                                          • Mar 2004
                                          • 127
                                          #11
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                                            • gornyhuy
                                              Chafed.
                                              • May 2002
                                              • 18041
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by TheDoc
                                              CTRL+1, 2, 3, 4, ect. or CTRL+tab.
                                              NICE! This is exactly what I meant. Thanks!

                                              icq:159548293

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                                                • dav3
                                                  Confirmed User
                                                  • May 2007
                                                  • 7348
                                                  #13
                                                  thanks for the tips...

                                                  reminded me to do first tweaks on this install, plus learned some new ones.
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                                                    • Gasper
                                                      #14
                                                      OR INSTALL IE?

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