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Monday, June 20, 2005

Speed up Firefox

Most of you know of my love affair with the Firefox browser. If you aren't using it, switch now! You'll thank me later.

My only complaint with it, is that it seems to be slightly slower than IE when it comes to loading pages. But I just discovered an easy tweak, that will speed it up tremendously. Pages load instantly now.

1. Type about:config in the address bar and hit enter.
2. Scroll down until you see "network.http.pipelining". Click on it until the value changes from False to True.
3. Next click on "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" and change the number to anything under 30. I set mine at 15 and that seems to be high enough.
4. Finally, click on "network.http.proxy.pipelining" and change the value from false to true.
5. Close Firefox, and reopen. Start browsing with faster speeds.

You can google "faster firefox" to learn more and to get more detailed directions.

posted by Jason @ 9:18 AM   5 comments

5 Comments:

At 10:31 AM, Blogger flavia said...

Hi, i just wanted to congratulate you on your site... I'm a recent blogger :) and really didn't know much what and how to do this. Then I stumbled on to your blog through the recent updated blogger link... you see I also started all this cause my week was soooo boring, so your name really stood out... and you've really helped a lot!!

Not only is you blog cool and a good example of all I could do with mine, but you´ve given some very good tips and tricks too..

So thank you very much from Chile!!

 
At 11:04 AM, Blogger Jason said...

Thanks for the kind words flavia! You and me both have some boring time on our hands. This is a great way to pass the time, and I think it's great to help other people out.
If you have any other questions or anything, feel free to ask. And thanks for reading...All the way from Chile!!

 
At 3:41 PM, Blogger Jason said...

It's working like a charm for me. There are a few sites that I visit that would load a little slow. But not now. It's instant.

 
At 6:52 PM, Blogger Chris said...

You may want to try a version of Firefox that is compiled/built specifically for your processor (AMD and Intel CPUs currently). Take a look here: http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/

These builds add stability, security and speed, though it does take a few days from the time Mozilla releases a build for these custom builds to be posted.

 
At 6:32 AM, Blogger b said...

I think this will help only for broadband or dsl users and not for dialup users.

 

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