speed up firefox
So, here are a few tweaks that you can do to speed up your browser. Begin by typing in: about:config in the address bar you will see a whole mess of stuff, but dont worry!
Type “network.http” in the filter field, & change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 25. This will allow it to make 25 requests at once.
Also, you can a new integer to speed things up. Right-click anywhere & select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” & set the value to “0″. This is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
If firefox is taking up too much RAM, you can manually lower it. Type in about:config, filter “browser.cache” & select “browser.cache.disk.capacity”. It’s default setting is usually 50000. Try half of that or what ever RAM size is suitable for you.
To reduce RAM usage when firefox is minimized, which i recommend, go to about:config, right-click anywhere & select New-> Boolean. Name it “config.trim_on_minimize” & set it to true. Restart firefox.
posted 11.21.08
If you want to get a little bit more aggressive, you can do add the following changes to the newer versions of FF:
* network.dns.disableIPv6: true
* network.http.max-connections: 48
* network.http.max-connections-per-server: 25
* network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy: 12
* network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server: 8
* network.http.pipelining.firstrequest: true
* network.http.pipelining: true
* network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 32 (if have issues with this one, just change it back to its default "8")
* network.http.proxy.pipelining: true
* nglayout.initialpaint.delay: 0
* config.trim_on_minimize: true
* browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers: 0
* content.max.tokenizing.time: 600000
* content.notify.backoffcount: 5
* content.notify.interval: 200000
* content.notify.ontimer: true
* content.switch.threshold: 200000
* content.maxtextrun: 8191
* dom.disable_window_status_change: true
* network.http.request.max-start-delay: 5
* browser.urlbar.autoFill: true
* plugin.expose_full_path: true
* ui.submenuDelay: 0
