Firefox Tip

[Ken Moffat]

    This website:

    http://forevergeek.com/open_source/make_firefox_faster.php

    has a good mozilla-firefox (mozilla also) tip:

    Here's something for broadband people that will really speed Firefox up:

    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 receives.

    If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster
    now!