March 30, 2005

How to Speed Up Firefox

We pointed to this tip a few days ago. Due to strong demand, we'll outline right here how you can make Firefox 2-3 times faster, even faster than Internet Explorer with the added benefit of not dancing with the Evil Empire's security holes.

1. Type "about:config" on your URL bar and press return.
2. Find "network.http.pipelining" in the list and change the value to "true" by clicking on it.
3. Find "network.http.proxy.pipelining" and change that to "true" too.
4. Find "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" and change the value to "30" or any higher number you wish.
5. Right click anywhere on the page and select "New" and then "Integer". Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and make the value "0". Source: ipkonfig.com

Boom! You're Firefox will now load up pages faster than ever before. Take that Microsoft.