Speed Up Firefox

By default, Firefox is optimized for dial-up connections. Here are a few tips to optimize it for broadband connections.

1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit enter.
2. Type “network.http” in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click/hit enter on them to change them):
3. Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
4. Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
5. Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
6. Also, 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.

Now if your anything like me you have Firefox open all day everyday and half the time it’s probably minimized in your taskbar. Now there is nothing wrong with having Firefox open all the time but it’s probably using up precious memory that should be going to your application currently in use. So now we’re going to reduce RAM usage in Firefox when it’s minimized.

1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit enter.
2. Right-click anywhere and select New-> Boolean
3. Name it “config.trim_on_minimize” and set it to TRUE
4. Restart Firefox for the changes to become effective

While we’re on the topic of RAM, Firefox is configured by default to use up a lot of your RAM. If your running on only 512MB-1GB, I’d highly suggest limiting the RAM usage.

1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit enter.
2. Filter “browser.cache” and select “browser.cache.disk.capacity”
3. It’s set to 50000, but you can lower it, depending on how much memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between 512MB and 1GB ram.