Mozilla Firefox is one the most popular free open source browsers. Millions of users prefer to use it over Internet Explorer, which comes by default with Windows. Firefox is much faster and secure (according to many users/developers). It can be further tweaked to make it more faster. Here are instructions to make Firefox load pages faster:
Steps
1. Open Firefox and type “about:config” in the address bar. Press Enter and it will display various entries. Locate the following entries:
network.http.pipelining,
network.http.proxy.pipelining,
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
2. Normally, when you visit a webpage, the browser will make only one request. If you enable pipelining, the browser will make multiple requests at a time. This makes pages to load faster.
Change the entries as follows:
–> Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
–> Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
–> Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to 8. (This means that the browser will make 8 requests at a time. Don’t set it to more than 8 because that is the maximum limit. The default value of this entry is 4.)
3. After you are done with the entries mentioned above, right click anywhere on the browser and select New-> Integer. Name it as “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set the value to “0″. This entry determines the value of time the browser waits before it processes the information it fetches. By setting the value to 0, the browser will process the information instantaneously.
After you are done will the tweaks, restart your browser. If you have a fast Internet connection, you will notice that pages will load very fast. Try visiting some “heavy” sites that have flash, images, etc. and observe the seed improvement.
Here are some additional tips:
# You can make Firefox faster by using Addons such as FasterFox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269).
# If you experience problems after you make the tweaks, you can go to Start >> Mozilla Firefox >> Mozilla Firefox (Safe Mode) and reset your browser settings.
# For better performance and security, always use the latest version of Mozilla Firefox. Update your browser and other software regularly.
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