Firefox Faster – HowTo

I had this posted for firefox 1.5, but it seems to be working nice for FF 2.0 on Ubuntu …

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update:
You can ignore all of the notes below and just read this post at ubuntuforums about using the FasterFox extension. Installing it with its default settings presets fixed my browsing problem. http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/

The about:config trick

This “power-user” trick will make Firefox download pages faster by allowing multiple connections so it can download more than one file at a time. (Broadband users only!)

1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows: Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true” Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true” Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly 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.

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