Though Firefox is the present fastest browser ,there are few customizations that can still speed up Firefox 3 . The default Firefox configurations are set for Dial up users .So if you have a broadband internet connection , you can make Firefox 3 to load multiple pages by allowing the pipelining feature . That is , multiple connections can be used to load a single page ,there by improving the browser speed.
Here’s how you can do that ;
Open a Blank window and type about:config in the address bar and hit enter (press I promise,continue for FF3)
In the filter box search for term “network”. Now to speed up Firefox 3,change the following terms as shown below.
change network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipeliningto “true” (Double click)
change network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to a suitable higher number . If you put 25 ,then 25 connections will be made to load the page .
Right click anywhere ,select new integer from context menu .Enter nglayout.initialpaint.delay and click OK. Now set its value to “0″.
This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on data it receives.
Now restart Firefox 3 to apply the new settings .
Firefox settings can be changed to reduce the amount the RAM it is allowed to use.For that , Go to Tools>Options>Advanced>network and set Cache to an appropriate value .Try 20MB if you have 512MB or more RAM.
There is an another configuration for reducing the RAM usage when Firefox 3 is minimized . Right-click anywhere and select new Boolean from menu. Name it as “config.trim_on_minimize” and set it to true. When minimized ,this setting will improve your PC speed by moving operations to your hard drive.
Fasterfox addon can be used to speed up Firefox 3 by automating the above steps.
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