Desktop publishing forum: firefox running slow

Hi,

Firefox pages runs faster by allowing multiple connections so it can download more than one file at a time. Its only useful for broadband users, so if youre still on dial-up you can just skip this one for now.

Heres 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 youre using a broadband connection youll load pages MUCH faster now!


Thanks,

Since I've made the above changes Firefox is running much faster. Thanks for the help!!

Dear Senthil0787,

There are not sufficient words in the English language to thank you for this tidbit of information. Obviously Firefox couldn't allow those settings in the standard version or it would drown home networks.

My Firefox is my blessed angel now, with your advice.
Firefox is like a high strung video game now.. Hit a link and BAM. Onscreen.

Thanks Billions.

hey

Uninstall firefox and all of its components. then reinstall. it should work faster. or go to wikihow and look in computer and tech. go into hacks and there should be a site that says speed up firefox. here i'll even give u the site...

http://www.wikihow.com/Speed-up-Firefox

Regards,
Bmora

I don't know who you are but I thought it was something buggy with my laptop or my firefox and I use a mac but once I found this thread and followed the steps, this thing is like on steroids. I absolutely love you for speeding up my firefox.....