[TIPS] Improve Your Mozilla Firefox Performance

Mozilla Firefox is one of the most widely used web browsers. 80% of my visitors use Mozilla Firefox. Many web browsers are also derived from Mozilla Firefox and still use the Mozilla engine — for example Flock, SeaMonkey, Camino, and so on. Besides being free and open source, the Mozilla project is also powerful, which is why many users (usually developers or sysadmins) use Mozilla Firefox instead of IE or Safari.

You can improve Mozilla Firefox’s performance by editing the configuration.

Here is how to do it:

1. Type “about:config” into the address bar and press Enter.

2. Find these settings: network.http.pipelining and set it to “true” network.http.proxy.pipelining and set it to “true” network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set it to “30” Note: this setting allows Firefox to open more connections when downloading a web page, which speeds up download time.

3. Create a new value by right-clicking and selecting New -> Integer.

4. Type nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set it to “0”. Note: this value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

This is an old technique, but just in case you’ve never heard of it or tried it — maybe you can do it now and feel the difference. Have a nice day and thanks for visiting.