Speeding Up Firefox the easy way

So, is your Firefox or other Mozilla platform browser slow?

There’s a simple but effective way to do it. No download needed what so ever!

There’s a lot of Firefox add-ons that does this job for you. But, with it it hogs your memory like no other! SO for some people it will either speed up, no effect or slow down. As for me, i’ve tested it and it provide no significant result. You may even be the result of the slowing itself by adding many add-ons (which you might don’t even use)

But did you know that Firefox is the solution itself?

Note: This tweak will also work for Flock Browser (Mozilla Platform)

So here’s some tweaks for you;
1. Open Firefox.
2. Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter.

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HTTP PIPELINING

In the filter bar type network.http.pipelining. It must be set as true.

Return to the filter bar and type network.http.pipelining.maxrequests. Double-click this option and set its value to 8. (no more than that)

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HTTP PROXY

Go to the filter bar and type network.http.proxy.pipelining then double-click it to set it to true.

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CONTENT INTERRUPT PARSING

Right-click anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Boolean from the pop-up menu. Enter content.interrupt.parsing in the New boolean value pop-up window and click OK.

Select true for the new boolean value and click OK.

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CONTENT MAX TOKENIZING TIME

Right-click anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu. Enter content.max.tokenizing.time in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

Enter value 2250000 and click OK.

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CONTENT NOTIFY INTERVAL

The minimum amount of time to wait between reflows. Right-click anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

Enter content.notify.interval in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

Enter value 750000 and click OK

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CONTENT NOTIFY ONTIMER

Right-click anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Boolean from the pop-up menu.

Enter content.notify.ontimer in the New boolean value pop-up window and click OK.

Select true for the new boolean value and click OK.

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CONTENT NOTIFY BACKOFFCOUNT

Right-click anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

Enter content.notify.backoffcount in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

Enter value 5 and click OK.

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CONTENT SWITCH THRESHOLD

This controls that amount of time. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

Enter content.switch.threshold in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

Enter value 750000 and click OK.

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NGLAYOUT INITIALPAINT DELAY

Pages will automatically shown without any delay. Right-click anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

Enter nglayout.initialpaint.delay in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

Enter value 0 and click OK

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BROWSER CACHE MEMORY CAPACITY

Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu.

Enter browser.cache.memory.capacity in the New integer value pop-up window and click OK.

Then enter this value 65536 and click OK.

After these tweaks, you’ll be browsing the web with breakneck speeds!

~ by shanzi on June 6, 2008.